BOOK TEN:  The Louisiana Acadian "Begats"

 

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 ELEVEN:  The Non-Acadian "Cajun" Families of South Louisiana

BOOK TWELVE:  Acadians in Gray

 

Acadian Settlement and Marriage Patterns, 1764-1870:  the Louisiana Acadian "Begats"

The antebellum period witnessed the burgeoning of established Acadian communities and the creation of new ones.  From the lower and upper Acadian coasts, Acadian families continued to move upriver into the Baton Rouge area, some even into Pointe Coupee, where few Acadians had settled during the colonial period.  Acadians from upper Bayou Lafourche tended to move in the opposite direction--down bayou to the lower Lafourche, over into the Bayou Terrebonne valley, and on to the edges of the vast coastal marshes, where they settled on other distributaries such as bayous du Large, Grand Caillou, Petit Caillou, and Pointe-aux-Chênes.  The most dramatic movements of Acadian families were out on the prairies.  There, the direction of migration was generally westward, up to and across the Mermentau and its many tributaries, on to the Calcasieu, and even west of the Sabine into East Texas.  Others moved down into the coastal marshes at the southwest corner of the state, where they settled atop the tree-covered chênières running parallel to the coast.   

Meanwhile, Acadians continued to play a role in the creation of a regional "melting pot" by taking wives and husbands from other cultures.  Their rate of exogamy in colonial Louisiana, based on family surnames, had stood just below 20 percent when Jefferson's Purchase turned them into Americains.   Five and a half decades later, at the end of the antebellum period, their exogamy rate had doubled to nearly 40 percent.  The culture had been transformed.  No family or community, old or new, escaped this demographic phenomenon.  Even Anglo-American families became "Cajunized" when their children adopted the folkways of their Acadian mothers.  Aristocratic French Creoles, as they had done during the colonial period, did their best to dissuade their children from marrying "lowly" Acadians, but as descendants of Acadian exiles became members of Louisiana's planter elite, proud Creoles allowed their sons and daughters to marry into those families.  By the eve of war in 1861, families of various nationalities had intermarried so often with Acadians, they, too, were becoming "Cajuns."01  

The Acadian Families Who Came to Louisiana But Failed to Establish Lasting Lines in the Bayou State

From 1764 into the early 1800s, members of at least 157 Acadian families emigrated to Louisiana, but not all of their names survived there.  Fifty-six of these families, many of them latecomers to Acadia, most of them exiles from France in 1785, failed to perpetuate agnatic lines in the Bayou State:69 

Arosteguy

Basque fishermen were among the first Europeans to go to North America, and some of them settled in French Acadia.  Pierre Arostey or Arosteguy, perhaps a French Basque, emigrated to British Nova Scotia probably from his native Bayonne in the Gascogne region by May 1737, when he married Marie, daughter of Charles Robichaud dit Cadet and his second wife Marie Bourg, at Grand-Pré.  They moved on to Chignecto, where they settled on the Beauséjour ridge.  Marie gave Pierre at least six children, three sons and three daughters:  Pierre, fils; François; Anne; Marie-Théotiste; Jean; and Marguerite.  Although they lived near the site of Fort Beauséjour, built by the French in 1751, after the fort's fall in June 1755, Pierre and his family managed to escape the British roundup at Chignecto and seek refuge, most likely, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s, however, they had either surrendered to, or been captured by, British forces in the area and returned to Beauséjour as prisoners of war.  In August 1763, Pierre, wife Marie, and five of their unmarried children--François, Anne, Jean, Marguerite, and Marie--appeared on a French repatriation list in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old home at Chignecto.  Son Pierre, fils married fellow Acadian Isabelle Comeau during exile.  He, Isabelle, and two children--Marguerite and Joseph--also appeared on the August listing at Fort Cumberland. 

When the extended family followed other Acadian exiles in Nova Scotia to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65, not all of the family members counted at Fort Cumberland sailed with them.  Missing were Pierre and Marie's son François, age unknown, and both of Pierre, fils and Isabelle's children, who must have died soon after the August 1763 counting.  Isabelle, however, was pregnant on the voyage. 

Pierre, fils and Isabelle's daughter Marie-Rose was born at New Orleans on 17 August 1765 and baptized at St.-Louis church the same day, which gives an idea of when the family reached the colony.  They settled at Cabahonnocer, an established Acadian community on the river above New Orleans, with 300 other Acadians who came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français that year.  Pierre, père and wife Marie Robichaud likely died soon after their arrival, among the dozens of Acadians at Cabahannocer who perished during the first year of settlement.  Evidence of their early death can be found in the Spanish census at Cabahannocer of April 1766, which counts both Pierre, père and Pierre, fils, each with a "woman" and a "girl" in their respective households, followed by a Spanish report of Acadians at New Orleans in July 1767, in which daughters Marie-Théotiste and Marguerite and son Jean (whom the Spanish official called Arostéllies) are counted without their parents.  No other census record in colonial Louisiana enumerates Pierre Arosteguy, père and Marie Robichaud after April 1766. 

Two of their three daughters married soon after they came to the colony, neither of them to fellow Acadians.  Anne wed Bernard, son of Antoine Capdeville and Catherine Larcosse of Ste.-Foix de Morlaas, Bern, Switzerland, at New Orleans in February 1766--one of the earliest marriages in Louisiana between an Acadian and a non-Acadian.  Bernard was chief surgeon of the French vessel Intelligence, and his marriage to an Acadian girl hinted that he planned to settle in the Spanish colony.  Anne died soon after their marriage, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth, and Bernard remarried to another Acadian girl, Anne Clouâtre of Minas and Maryland, at Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river above Baton Rouge in December 1768; she gave him many children.  Pierre, père's daughter Marie-Théotiste married Antoine-Emmanuel Morin at New Orleans in January 1768.  There is no record of Pierre, père's daughter Marguerite or son Jean ever marrying, so it fell to older son Pierre, fils to carry on the family's name in Louisiana.  It was not to be.  Pierre, fils evidently fathered no sons, and there is no evidence that his daughter Marie-Rose ever married, so only the blood of this Acadian family may have endured in the Bayou State through a branch of the Morin family.03

Barthélémy

In April 1766, Spanish officials counted Joseph Barthélémy, age 33, as part of Judice's Company of militia at Cabahannocer, an enumeration consisting mostly of Acadians who had arrived from Halifax via French St.-Domingue the year before.  One wonders if Joseph was Acadian.  All of the Barthélémys/Barthélémis in Louisiana, then, are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.04

Bastarache

Jean or Joannis Bastarche dit Le Basque, whose family name also was spelled Basterretche, was born probably at Bayonne, in the Basque country of southwestern France, in c1658.  Jean came to French Acadia in the early 1680s and married Huguette, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Anne Gaudet, at Port-Royal in c1684.  According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, Jean's brother Michel dit Le Basque, a flibustier, or pirate, also came to Acadia, with a wife and two children.  Jean and Huguette settled on what Acadians called the haute-rivière, above Port-Royal, today's upper Annapolis River.  There they had five children, and there they remained, among the few early Acadian families who did not move on to other settlements.  Jean and Huguette's three sons married, into the Labauve, Richard, and Forest families, and they, too, remained in the Annapolis valley.  Jean and Huguette's daughters married into the Orillon dit Champagne and Girouard families.  In January 1752, one of Jean's granddaughters, Anne, from his second son Jean, fils, married Salvator, son of Sr. Jean Mouton, a surgeon at Chignecto, and Marie Girouard, who also had lived at Annapolis and Minas. 

Le Grand Dérangement of 1755 scattered the Bastarches to the winds. One family ended up on the island of Martinique in the French Antilles.  Another Bastarache was exiled to South Carolina in the fall of 1755 but escaped and made his way back through the North American wilderness to his family in greater Acadia.  After the war with Britain ended in 1763, they joined fellow exiles on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary Bay, in Nova Scotia.  One Bastarache took his family to Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence near Trois-Rivières.  Other Bastaraches settled at Bouctouche and Tracadie on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore of what became eastern New Brunswick.  

In the fall of 1755, Anne Bastarache and husband Salvator Mouton escaped the British roundup at Chignecto and fled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  With them went two of Anne's younger sisters, Marie-Modeste and Élisabeth.  In c1760, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, Marie-Modeste married Salvator's younger brother Louis.  Élisabeth married Salvator's and Louis's nephew, Jean dit Neveu, son of Jacques Mouton and Marguerite Caissie, in one of the Nova Scotia prison compounds in c1763.  In 1765, the Moutons and their Bastarache wives were among the hundreds of Acadians from Halifax who ventured to New Orleans via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above the city. 

Since Anne, Marie-Modeste, and Élisabeth were the only descendants of Jean dit Le Basque to come to Louisiana, only their blood, through several lines of the Mouton family, survived in the Bayou State.  Anne Bastarche, who died probably at Cabahannocer, present-day St. James Parish, soon after she came to the colony, was, in fact, the paternal grandmother of Louisiana's first popularly-elected governor, Alexandre Mouton of Lafayette Parish.  Sister Isabelle, wife of Jean dit Neveu Mouton, died at Attakapas on the western prairies, where she and her husband had settled, in April 1798, in her early 50s.  Sister Marie-Modeste, wife of Louis Mouton, was buried at St. Joseph Catholic Church cemetery, Baton Rouge, in August 1818, in her mid-80s--the last of her family in Louisiana to join her ancestors.05

Baucher dit Saint-Martin

François dit Saint-Martin or Martain, son of Pierre Baucher or Boschet and Marie Labbé of Ste.-Croix, bishopric of Rouen, was born at Rouen, date unrecorded.  He emigrated to Plaisance, Newfoundland, by January 1703, when he married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Baudry and Jeanne Meschin of Plaisance.  He worked as an armateur, or shipowner, there, so he likely engaged in fishing and commerce.  In the early 1710s, after the British secured possession of Newfoundland, François and his family, along with the other French fisherfolk at Plaisance, relocated to Petit-Dégrat, a small island off the southeast coast of Île Madame, then part of the new French province of Île Royale.  Between 1704 and the mid-1720s, at Plaisance and Petit-Dégrat, Marie-Anne gave François nine children, five daughters and four sons.  François died probably at Petit-Dégrat between 1724 and 1726, age unrecorded.  Three of his daughters married into the Hiriard, Auger, and Morin de Fonfay families on Île Royale.  Only one of his sons created a family of his own, but not in greater Acadia.

Third son Pierre dit Saint-Martin, born probably on Petit-Dégrat in c1723, was still very young when his father died.  In 1726 at Petit-Dégrat, his widowed mother was counted with eight children, four sons and four daughters, a domestic servant, 60 fishermen under her employ, nine chaloupes, and two bateaux ou goélettes en pêches, a total of 11 fishing boats, so her husband, and now she, ran a good-sized fishing operation.  In c1734, she remarried to Jean Hiriard, père, father of her daughter Marie-Anne's husband.  Marie-Anne Baudry died at Petit-Dégrat in c1740, age unrecorded.  Son Pierre Baucher dit Saint-Martin, after he came of age, evidently followed his father's trade of fisherman, merchant, and sea captain.  Pierre does not appear in the Sieur de La Roque's census of Île Royale in early 1752, so he may have been at sea at the time.  He would have been in his early 30s and still unmarried when war came again to greater Acadia in 1755. 

Early in the Seven Years' War, Pierre Baucher dit Saint-Martin appeared at New Orleans--one of the first exiles from greater Acadia to go to French Louisiana, though, unlike the hundreds of others who followed, the young mariner went there perhaps without duress.  Still a bachelor in his early 30s when war came to greater Acadia, he may have plied the waters of the Atlantic as a privateer, or he may have been a simple fisherman seeking refuge in a part of New France not yet overwhelmed by British might.  In October 1758, three months after the British had captured the French citadel of Louisbourg on Île Royale not far from his home, Pierre dit Saint-Martin, at age 35, married a Louisiana Creole, Charlotte-Thérèse, daughter of Julien, also called François, Gallot, "former employee at the naval bureau," and Marie-Thérèse Drillant, at New Orleans.  The couple remained in the city, where Pierre likely engaged in ship-borne commerce, and where Marie-Thérèse gave him a family, including Charlotte born in September 1759; Pierre-Auguste in January 1761; Louis in December 1762; François-Louis in April 1766; and Marie-Félicité in September 1768--at least five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1759 and 1768.   Younger daughter Marie-Félicité married into the Labatut family at New Orleans in April 1785, age 16, and died at age 70 in the city in August 1838.  Oldest son Pierre-Auguste married Geneviève-Thérèse, daughter of Louis-Antoine De Callonge and Marie-Thérèse Carrière, at New Orleans in May 1785.  Youngest son François-Louis married Céleste, daughter of Dominique Daspit St. Amand and Françoise Pugeole, probably at New Orleans by August 1796, when their daughter Marie-Adeline was born in the city.  Pierre dit Saint-Martin died at New Orleans in March 1805, age 82. 

If any of Pierre Baucher dit Saint-Martin's descendants settled in the predominantly-Acadian areas west of New Orleans, or if they remained in the city, despite their Louisiana ancestor's birthplace and his status as an exile from greater Acadia, they most likely called themselves French Creoles, not Acadians.82 

Bélisle

The Le Borgne de Bélisle family, called Bélisle in Louisiana, was one of the most distinguished families in Acadian history, though they were not very prolific there.  In 1642, Emmanuel Le Borgne, sieur du Coudray, a native of Calais but now a wealthy merchant of La Rochelle, became a partner, and creditor, of Charles de Menou, sieur d'Aulnay de Charnisay, Acadia's future governor.  However, not until after d'Aulnay's death in 1650 did Le Borgne bother to go to the colony, and not as a settler.  In the summer of 1653, he sailed to Port-Royal to complete what his henchmen had failed to accomplish in the years since d'Aulnay's death--the conquest of all rivals in Acadia, including former governor Charles La Tour, and the collection of the huge debt d'Aulnay's widow still owed him.  But Le Borgne did not remain in Acadia long.  In the summer of 1654, a New-English fleet under Robert Sedgwick attacked French Acadia.  Le Borgne was compelled to return to France, but he left his oldest son, Emmanuel du Coudray, as a hostage to the English, who were determined to maintain their hold on the colony.  After a few months, young Emmanuel was allowed to return to France.  In November 1757, while the English still held the colony, the Company of New France declared the elder Le Borgne proprietary governor of Acadia, in absentia.   The following spring, Le Borgne sent his second son, Alexandre, then only age 18, to secure the family's interests in Acadia.  The impetuous Alexandre attacked the English garrison at La Hève, on the Atlantic side of the peninsula.  The attack failed, Alexandre fell into English hands, and was held prisoner at Boston and London.  In September 1659, the English relented, and La Hève was returned to the Le Borgnes.  

Alexandre did not return to Acadia until the summer of 1670, after the English surrendered the colony to France.  By then, he was age 30 and still a bachelor.  He also had assumed his father's seigneuries in Acadia, which included Port-Royal as well as La Hève.  In c1675, at age 35, he married Marie, daughter of former governor Charles La Tour and d'Aulnay's widow Jeanne Motin de Reux, who had remarried to La Tour.  Alexandre was now styling himself Le Borgne de Bélisle, and he alone of his three brothers settled in Acadia.  Marie gave him seven children, including two sons who created families of their own.  Older son Emmanuel le jeune married Cécile, a daughter of Pierre Thibodeau, in c1698.  In December 1707, younger son Alexandre, fils married Anastasie, daughter of capitaine de sauvages Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, third baron de Saint-Castin, and Abenaki princess Mathilde.  Emmanuel le jeune had no sons.  Alexandre, fils had two sons, Alexandre III, who married Marie, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Grand-Pré in January 1731; and Jacques, who married Marie-Anne Maurice probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730.  Before Alexandre III died in August 1744, age 36, probably at Minas, he fathered at least four sons:  Alexandre IV; Anselme, born in c1738; Jean-Pierre, called Pierre; Joseph-Marie; and Mathurin.  Jacques's son Jacques, fils married Cécile, daughter of Claude Doucet and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1752.

During Le Grand Dérangement, Alexandre IV, age 19 in 1755, fled from Minas to Canada, where, at L'Islet, on the St. Lawrence River below Québec City, he created a family of his own.  His widowed mother and younger siblings, however, were deported from Minas to Maryland, where British authorities counted them at Annapolis in July 1763.  By then, Alexandre III's son Anselme, while in his early 20s, had married Anne, daughter of Paul Babin and Marie LeBlanc of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in Maryland in the late 1750s or early 1760s; Anselme's mother, also, was a LeBlanc, Marie, in fact, so he and his wife Anne were cousins.  Anselme and Anne were counted at Annapolis in July 1763 with no children.  By 1767, however, Anselme had fathered a son, Paul, born probably in the Maryland capital in October 1766. 

It was son Anselme who brought the family name to Spanish Louisiana.  He, wife Anne, and infant son Paul were in the second contingent of Maryland Acadians who arrived at New Orleans via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, aboard the English ship Virgin in July 1767.  His widowed mother and none of his siblings accompanied him to the colony.  Anne was pregnant on the voyage.  Son Pierre-Jacques was born in New Orleans on August 8 and baptized in the St.-Louis church there the day of his birth.  Anselme, Anne, and their sons followed their fellow passengers to San Gabriel, a new Spanish settlement on the river above New Orleans.  Anne died not long after the family reached Louisiana, and Anselme remarried to another cousin, Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Dupuis and Élisabeth LeBlanc of Minas, probably at Ascension on the river between San Gabriel and Cabahannocer in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  They appear in a Spanish census at Ascension, conducted in August 1777, living on the right, or west, bank of the river on five arpents of frontage with a single slave.  By then, Anselme's children included not only Paul, now age 13; but also Marie, age 6; Françoise-Hélène, age 4; and Marguerite, age 2.  Another son, Joseph-Anselme, was baptized at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church, age unrecorded, in May 1778.  Son Auguste was born at either Cabahannocer or Ascension in c1782--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1766 and 1782, in Maryland and Louisiana.  During the late 1780s, Anselme and his family joined the Acadian odyssey from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they settled among dozens of Acadian families who had recently come to Louisiana from France.  In 1788, Anselme owned 14 head of cattle but still only a single slave.  By 1797, he owned three slaves.  Whatever aristocratic pretensions he may have brought to Louisiana likely had been beaten down by exile and resettlement.  He died in Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche in February 1817, age 80. 

Meanwhile, in 1793 and 1799, Anselme's daughters Françoise-Hélène and Marguerite married into the Landry family at Ascension and Assumption on the upper Lafourche.  The priests who recorded the marriages called Anselme's daughters Belille.  Anselme's oldest son Paul died at Ascension in August 1791, age 25, still a bachelor.  Third son Joseph-Anselme married at least twice, the second time, in his early 70s, to Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Duhon and Adélaïde Landry and widow of Augustin LeBlanc, at Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1850; the recording priest there called him Joseph dit Beline.  Marie Azélie gave him no children.  Joseph Anselme, called Joseph Leborn Debilile by the recording priest, died near Plattenville, Assumption Parish, in November 1851, age 74.  Anselme's youngest son Auguste died near Paincourtville in May 1855, age 73.  Area church and civil records hint that neither of Anselme's married sons fathered children of their own, at least not in South Louisiana, so only the blood of this prominent Acadian family seems to have survived in the Bayou State.06

Bellemère

André Célestin dit Bellemere, a blacksmith born in France in c1648, married 22-year-old Perrine Basile in France in c1685.  They came to French Acadia in c1690 and settled at Grand-Pré, a new settlement in the Minas Basin, where they raised seven children, two sons and five daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Forest, Brasseur dit La Citardy, and Pinet families.  Older son Jacques married Marie, daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in February 1719 and used his father's dit, Bellemère, as a surname.  Younger son Antoine married Marie, daughter of Charles Gautrot and Françoise Rimbault, at Grand-Pré in November 1718 and called himself a Célestin. 

In the fall of 1755, members of both Jacques's and Antoine's families were still living at Minas.  The British rounded up members of the family and deported them to three seaboard colonies.  Antoine's descendants went to Maryland, where they were counted at Annapolis in July 1763.  Amazingly, when 625 of the Acadians in Maryland set sail for New Orleans in the late 1760s, none of them were Célestins. 

Brother Jacques dit Jacob's descendants were sent from Minas to Massachusetts and Virginia.  One of Jacques's daughters, Marie-Osite, married a Breau in Massachusetts and followed him to Canada in the late 1760s.  The fate of Jacques's descendants sent to the Old Dominion was even more tragic than that of their cousins who ended up in the other colonies.  In late autumn of 1755, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's royal governor, Robert Dinwiddie, protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while the Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered Acadians from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  On 10 May 1756, the four transports filled with Acadians left for England--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles by one count.  The English held them in warehouses at several major ports.  Many exiles died of smallpox soon after they reached Bristol.  Jacques's descendants were held at Southampton. 

In the spring 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the British and French governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  The Bellemères sailed aboard the transport L'Ambition, which reached St.-Malo in late May.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer with hundreds of fellow exiles.  In the early 1770s, they followed dozens of fellow exiles to the interior province of Poitou, where members of the family perished.  A decade later, only two of Jacques's descendants were still living in France--at Chantenay near Nantes on the lower Loire, across the Breton peninsula from St.-Malo.  Jacques's daughter Anastasie, now in her mid-40s, was married to second husband Honoré, son of Jean-Baptiste Comeau and Anne-Marie Thibodeau of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and widower of Marguerite Poirier.  Jacques's son Bruno had died in Poitou a decade earlier, but Bruno's daughter Josèphe-Marie was still alive and living with relatives in Nantes.  When the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Anastasie and Josèphe-Marie agreed to take it. 

Josèphe-Marie was age 18 when she came to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in August 1785 and followed her fellow passengers to Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast.  Her aunt Anastasie and uncle Honoré Comeau, along with three of Anastasie's Boudrot sons from her first marriage, arrived aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth ship of the Seven Ships, in September and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Josèphe-Marie married twice in Louisiana, first to Pierre, fils, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Lambert and his third wife Marie Doiron of Chignecto, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in October 1787.  She gave him a number of children, including at least three sons.  She remarried to Jean Félix, called Félix, son of Canadians Baptiste Pallaquin and Joséphine Dejen of Québec, at Cabahannocer/St. James in January 1805 and gave him two daughters.  Josèphe Marie died in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche in October 1846, age 79, a widow again--the last of her family in the Bayou State.  Although no male Bellemères came to Louisiana, the blood, at least, of this Acadian family survived in a number of lines of the Boudreaux and Lambert families.07

Belliveau

The Belliveaus were among the earliest families to settle in Acadia.  Antoine Belliveau, a farm worker perhaps from La Chaussée south of the middle Loire in the region of Loudun, France, came to the colony in the mid-1640s, during the civil war being fought between rival colonial leaders Charles La Tour and the sieur d'Aulnay.  In c1651, Antoine married Andrée Guyon, a widow, at Port-Royal and remained there.  Andrée gave him two children, a daughter who married Germain Bourgeois, and a son, Jean, who became a carpenter as well as a farmer.  Jean married twice, first to Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry, at Port-Royal in c1673, and then to Cécile, daughter of Charles Melanson dit La Ramée and Marie Dugas, at Port-Royal 30 years later, when he was in his early 50s.  Both of Jean's wives gave him children:  his first wife three sons and a daughter, his second wife another son and two more daughters.  His daughters married into the Boudrot, Fourgère, and Dugas families.  All four of Jean's sons created families of their own by marrying into the Melanson, Thériot, and Haché dit Gallant families. 

Perhaps to escape British rule, in the early 1720s, Jean took his second wife and their children to Port-Toulouse on the French Maritime island of Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, where he likely worked as a carpenter.  Later in the decade, he moved his family to Île St.-Jean, present-day Prince Edward Island, part of the Maritime colony of Île Royale.  Jean died at Tracadie on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in the mid-1730s, in his 80s.  His descendants by his second wife remained on the island, settling at Port-La-Joye, the island's headquarters, and St.-Pierre-du-Nord east of Tracadie.

Most of Jean's children by his first wife, meanwhile, remained at Port-Royal, renamed by the British Annapolis Royal, where they became a fairly prominent family.  One of Jean's grandsons, Charles, by his oldest son Jean, fils, married a daughter of René Granger and Marguerite Thériot of Grand-Pré, in November 1717 and worked as a pilot and ship's carpenter in the colonial capital.  A few Belliveaus settled at Chignecto on land their ancestor Antoine had purchased there. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds.  Some Belliveaus escaped the British roundup at Annapolis, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed to Chepoudy the following spring, and took refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean before continuing on to Canada.  The Belliveaus who fell into British hands at Annapolis were placed on ships heading to Massachusetts and North Carolina.  However, the ship destined for the southern colony, the Pembroke, did not make it there.  Soon after it left Annapolis Basin, the ship fell into the hands of the exiles led by Charles Belliveau the pilot.  He and his compatriots sailed the Pembroke first to Baie Ste.-Marie on the western shore of Nova Scotia, where they hid for a month, and then crossed the Bay of Fundy to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean in January 1756.  In early February, they fought off a British attack in the lower St.-Jean, burned the vessel, and retreated upriver to the Acadian settlement at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas, today's Fredericton, New Brunswick, where they spent the rest of the winter.  That summer, food having run low in the St.-Jean settlements, the Belliveaus and other Pembroke passengers made their way north to Québec, while others went to Miramichi and other refugee camps on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Charles Belliveau, the hero of 1755, died at Québec in early 1758, perhaps a victim of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of Acadians in and around the Canadian capital between the summer of 1757 and the spring of 1758. 

Meanwhile, Belliveaus at Chignecto either escaped the British roundup there and joined their cousins in Canada, or the British deported them to South Carolina and Massachusetts.  When the war with Britain finally ended in 1763, the Belliveaus in Massachusetts joined their cousins in Canada.  Especially after 1766, members of the family could be found in present-day Québec Province at Trois-Rivières; Bécancour, Maskinongé, St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, and Nicolet between Trois-Rivières and Montréal; St.-Jacques de L'Achigan, St.-Sulpice, and L'Assomption near Montréal; and at Grande-Rivière on the southern shore of the Gaspé Peninsula.  They also settled at Memramcook in present-day southeastern New Brunswick; at Rustico on the north shore of Prince Edward Island; at Pubnico, Grosse-Coques, and Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau-de-l'Anguille north of Cap-Sable; and at St.-Bernard and Pointe-de-l'Église, now Church Point, on the Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, in western Nova Scotia.  One community along the eastern shore of the Baie Ste.-Marie became L'Anse-aux-Belliveau, now Belliveau Cove.  

In 1755, the Belliveaus of Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg on Île Royale in July 1758, Louis Belliveau and his family at Tracadie escaped the British roundup on the island but likely ended up in a British prison camp in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  After the war, in the mid-1760s, they settled on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Louis died on Miquelon in December 1775, age 65.  Another war with Britain--the American Revolution, in which France sided with the Americans--resulted in British deportation of the Acadians on Île Michelon, including the Belliveaus, to La Rochelle, France, in 1778.  Two of Louis's children died at La Rochelle in July and August 1779.  His widow Louise Haché dit Gallant died there the following October, age 65.  Their daughters Rose married Pierre Le Clair of Île Miquelon, widower of Anne Comeau, at St.-Nicholas, La Rochelle, in January 1782.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in their Mississippi-valley colony, the Belliveaus at La Rochelle had either returned to Miquelon or chose to remain in France.  No member of the family can be found on the passenger lists of the Seven Ships bound for Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Only one member of this prominent Acadian family seems to have gone to Louisiana.  According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, he was Pierre Belliveau dit Bideau.  Judging by his dit, he likely was a descendant of Charles dit Bideau of Annapolis Royal, one of Jean, père's sons by his first wife.  The date of Pierre dit Bideau's arrival in Louisiana, where he settled, and who he married, if he married at all, remain a mystery.  He did not come to Louisiana from France.  Did he arrive in 1765 with the exiles from Halifax, or between 1766 and 1770 with the Acadians from Maryland?  A perusal of the church records of the New Orleans, river, and prairie parishes, where the Acadian exiles settled, turns up no one named Belliveau.  Nor can anyone with that name be found in the surviving Spanish colonial censuses.  It is safe to say, then, that the family name brought to Acadia by Antoine Belliveau, whose descendants in Canada can be numbered in the thousands, did not survive in the Bayou State.  Antoine's blood, however, and that of his wife Andrée Guyon, can be found in many South Louisianans (including this one).08

Billeray

Claude-Joseph, called Joseph, son of Jean-Claude Billeray and Anne-Monique Godard, was born at Vermier-Fontaine, Diocese of Besancon, France, in November 1727.  Joseph married Brigitte, daughter of Michel de Forest, fils and his second wife Marie Célestin dit Bellemère, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in June 1752.   A French official counted them at Anse-au-Matelot on the south end of the island in August.  Having just married, they had no children.  Brigitte gave Joseph least two children on the island:  Jeanne in c1753; and Charles in c1755. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Acadians on Île St.-Jean were safe for now because they lived in territory controlled by France.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats gathered up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Joseph Billeray, his wife Brigitte, and their two children crossed aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758 and, despite a mid-December storm that sank three other vessls,  reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  All of the family survived the crossing that took the lives of scores of their fellow Acadians, but daughter Jeanne must have been weakened by the ordeal; she died in May 1759 probably in a St.-Malo hospital.   Joseph and Brigitte joined other Acadians at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where she gave him more children:  Marie-Jeanne in July 1759; Joseph-Jean or Jean-Joseph in November 1761; and Anne-Brigitte in June 1764.   In 1765, Joseph took his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittay, where they joined hundreds of other Acadians, most of them recently repatriated from England, in a venture they hoped would provide them independence from the government handouts on which they subsisted at St.-Malo.  They lived in the village of Kervarigeon near Bangor in the island's southern interior, where, in February 1767, Joseph and Brigitte recounted their respective family genealogies for French authorities.  They also lost two more children at Kervarigeon.  Two years later, in c1771, wife Brigitte died, leaving Joseph with two children, Charles, then 16, and Marie-Jeanne, age 12.  Joseph remarried to Marie Thomas, probably a local, and fathered at least two more daughters.  He died on the island in c1779, in his early 50s.  His daughter Marie-Jeanne, by his first wife, married Frenchman François Le Sommer of Grandchamp probably on Belle-Île-en-Mer. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana., Joseph Billeray's widow and most of his children chose to remain on Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they were counted by French officials in 1792.  However, oldest surviving daughter Marie-Jeanne, now a young widow, agreed to take up the Spanish offer.  She sailed aboard La Ville de Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France, with the family of 75-year-old Jacques Forest, her maternal uncle.  The ship reached New Orleans in December, and she followed the Forests and most of her fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge. 

 Marie-Jeanne Billeray was age 27 when she came to Spanish Louisiana.  One wonders if she remarried there.  Since she was the only member of her family to emigrate to the colony, the Billerays of Île St.-Jean, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and Belle-Île-en-Mer are among the Acadian families who did not set down roots in the Bayou State.11

Bonnevie

Jacques Bonnevie dit Beaumont of Paris, a corporal in the King's service, married Françoise, daughter of Philippe Mius d'Azy and his first wife, a Mi'kmaq woman whose name has been lost to history, at Port-Royal in c1701.  By 1732, Jacques, age 72, was on the list of retired disabled veterans of the French army on Île Royale in the French Maritimes, having served for 17 years and suffered a wound to his thigh, which disabled him.  Françoise gave the old corporal six children, three daughters and three sons, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal:  Marie-Charlotte in c1700; Françoise in c1701; Jean in c1702; Jacques in c1704; and Charles in 1715.  Two of the sons married, oldest son Jean to Anne Gautrot in c1721, place unrecorded, who gave him a son, Joseph, in 1722.  Second son Jacques dit Jacquot dit Beaumont became a blacksmith and married three times, first to Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieau, in c1729, perhaps at Annapolis Royal; to Françoise, daughter of Jean Comeau, in c1745; and then in c1755 to Anne dite Nannette, daughter of Paul Melanson and widow of Jacques-François Thébeau.  By 1755, Jacquot and his family had settled at Chignecto.  All three of his sisters married:  Marie-Charlotte to Jacques dit Lamontagen, son of Julian Lord and Anne Bourg, place and date unrecorded; and Françoise first to Pierre Olivier, and then to master tailor Jean, son of Étienne Helie dit Nouvelle and Marguerite Laporte of Poitiers, Poitou, dates unrecorded, perhaps at Annapolis Royal.  Youngest sister Marie married François Duguay of Pluvigné, bishopric of Vannes in southern Britanny, on Île St.-Jean in c1737.  François was one of the first settlers on the island, having gone there as a young fisherman in 1720, when the island was first settled.  Sister Françoise and her second husband joined Marie and François on the island in c1749.  In August 1752, a French official counted the two families living next to one another at Rivière-du-Nord-Est near the island's northern shore.  With Françoise, age 50, and husband Jean, age 46, were son Jean-Baptiste Olivier, age 19, from her first marriage, and Jeanne ____, age 30.  With Marie, age 48, and François, age 50, were six children, four sons and two daughters, ages 15 years to 19 months.  François was described as a "ploughman." 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Bonnevie sisters on Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  In late 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Sadly, the old corporal's daughters and their families never made it to France.  In December 1758, they perished with dozens of other exiles aboard the Violet, a deportation transport that left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in a 12-ship convoy and sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England on its way to St.-Malo, taking everyone down with it.  

In Nova Scotia, one their brothers also failed to escape the British.  The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Abbé Le Loutre and his Mi'kmaq warriors, burned Acadian homesteads east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Jacquot Bonnevie and his family may have been among the refugees in this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Jacquot may have been one of the Chignecto Acadians serving in the fort as militia.  If so, he, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies. 

The British deported Jacques dit Jacquot, wife Nannette Melanson, and four children to South Carolina aboard the British transport Edward Cornwallis, which reached Charles Town in November 1755.  They likely were among the Acadians in that colony allowed by the governor and his council to return to Nova Scotia by sea, which they accomplished in the spring of 1756--among the relatively few exiles who made it all the way.  After finding refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean, they may have been among the Acadians granted permission to move on to Île St.-Jean, where Jacquot's sisters could be found, or, more likely, they moved on to the refuge at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Later, they joined other Acadian exiles at Restigouche, at the head of the Baie de Chaleurs, where Jacquot's youngest daughter was baptized in May 1760.  Three of Jacques dit Jacquot's children married during the family's stay at Restigouche:  Rose to Jean Gousman, an Andalusian sailor and widower of Marie Barrieau, in January 1760; Amand to Catherine Gaudet in July 1760; and Joseph to Marguerite Haché-Gallant in May 1761.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche in late June 1760 but failed to capture the place and returned to its base.  After the fall of Montréal in September 1760, essentially ending the war in North America, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender. Jacques dit Jacquot, his wife, and five of their children were among the 1,003 Acadians on a surrender list dated 24 October 1760.  The British held them and other exiles in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Jacques dit Jacquot died by 1761, when his wife remarried.  Members of his family were held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, before being transferred to the larger prison on Georges Island in Halifax harbor, where a British official counted some of them in August 1763.  The war now over, two of Jacquot's sons, Jacques, fils and Amand, and their sisters Théotiste and her Breau husband, who she had recently married, and Rose and her Spanish husband, chose to go to the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland to escape British rule.  Jacquot's other children chose to remain in greater Acadia.  Sons Joseph, Sylvain, and later Jacques, fils and sister Théotiste, who had gone to Miquelon, and sister Anne and her Richard husband, settled at Chezzetcook near Halifax.  Joseph moved on to Menoudie at Chignecto, on the other side of Nova Scotia, and settled perhaps near the family's old homeplace there.  After his death, his wife Marguerite Haché-Gallant remarried to Englishman Jean Downing, whose mother was a Boudrot, and followed him to nearby Cap-Pelé in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, where three of her Bonnevie daughters married into the Forest, Duguay dit La Vieux, and Bourque families.  Evidently Joseph's brothers Jacques, fils and Sylvain and sisters Théotiste and Anne remained at Chezzetcook on the Atlantic shore. 

Jacques dit Jacquot's third son Amand dit Beaumont and his family outdid their kinsmen in their wanderings.  He followed his family to South Carolina, back to greater Acadia, to the Gulf shore, Restigouche, where he married, and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia before going to Île Miquelon.  He and his family were at Port-Louis, France, in 1768, having been sent to the mother country with other Newfoundland islanders in 1767 to relief overcrowding in the fishery.  They were back on Miquelon later in the year.  A decade later, in November 1778, the British captured the islands during the American Revultion and deported Amand and his family, along with other fisher/habitants, to St.-Malo, France, aboard the brigantine La Jeanette.  Amand died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in c1779, in his early or mid-40s.  His widow Catherine Gaudet returned to Miquelon in c1784, after the war was over, and moved on to the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence by the late 1780s.  Son Pierre, a fisherman, married Françoise Briand on the isolated islands in c1790 but did not remain.  They were living at Halifax later in the decade, where a daughter was born to them in c1796.  They moved on to Le Havre in Normandy, where another daughter was born in August 1799, and their older daughter died in September, age 2 1/2. Meanwhile, Pierre's brother Amand, fils married Marie LeBorgne, probably a fellow Acadian, became a carpenter, and also settled at Le Havre.  Between 1797 and 1805, Marie gave Amand, fils at least six children, five sons and a daughter, at the Norman port.  Two of them died in infancy.  Joseph's and Amand, fils's sister Marie-Modeste married into the Doucet family at Le Havre. 

Meanwhile, sister Rose and her Spanish husband Jean Gousman, fils joined other members of her family on Île Miquelon after they departed the prison at Halifax.  Pressured by the French government to vacate the overcrowded island, they, too, crossed to France, where they were counted at Le Havre in 1772.  Unlike brother Amand's widow, however, they remained in France with the hundreds of other Acadian exiles still living there.  Despite their many relocations, Jean, fils and Rose had at least nine children, including six sons, but all of these children except two died in childhood, not an uncommon fate among Acadian exiles during the Great Upheaval.  In the early 1770s, Rose and Jean went to the interior provincie Poitou with hundreds of their fellow exiles to settle on land that belonged to an influential nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  The venture failed after two seasons of effort. In October 1775, Rose and Jean retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where they lived as best they could on what work they could find and on government handouts.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Rose Bonnevie and her husband agreed to take it.  

Rose Bonnevie, age 44, husband Jean Gousman, fils, age 56, and two children--Rosalie-Charlotte, age 21, and Jean-Thomas, age 2--crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  They did not follow most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but settled downriver from the city.  Nueva Gálvez, also called San Bernardo, in present-day St. Bernard Parish, was an Isleño, or Canary Islander, community, where a hand full of other Acadian families from L'Amitié chose to settle.  Rose and Jean, fils may have gone to San Bernardo because he, too, was Spanish.  Rose died there in October 1791, age 50, and Jean, fils remarried again, to a Trahan, at San Bernardo; she gave him another son.  Jean, fils died in the Isleño community probably in the late 1790s. 

Rose was the only Acadian Bonnevie who settled in Louisiana.  Her son Jean-Thomas Gousman probably died young, but her daughter married twice at New Orleans and had children of her own.  So, although the Acadian branch of the Bonnevie family did not take root in the Bayou State, its blood survived in at least two New Orleans families.12

Boucher

Pierre Boucher, one of a number of Acadians with the surname, married Marie, daughter of Jean Doiron and Anne LeBlanc, probably at Chignecto in the early 1750s.  They had at least one child, daughter Marie-Anne, at Chignecto in c1754, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  In the autumn of 1755, the British deported Pierre Boucher, wife Marie, and their infant daughter to South Carolina aboard the sloop Dolphin, which left Chignecto on October 13 and reached Charle Town on November 19.  Pierre died in South Carolina, and Marie remarried to Pierre, son of fellow Acadian Philippe Lambert and widower of Marguerite Arseneau and _____, there in c1761.  Two years later, in August 1763, Marie Doiron, daughter Marie-Anne Boucher, Pierre Lambert, a son by her husband's previous marriage, Pierre and Marie's infant son Jean, and three orphans still living in the colony; Marie-Anne was age 9 at the time.  Soon after, the family seems to have followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the British Atlantic colonies to French St.-Domingue, where the French were building a new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the island. 

Marie-Anne Boucher, now age 11, came to Louisiana probably from French St.-Domingue with her mother Marie Doiron, age 28; stepfather Pierre Lambert, père, age 39; and stepbrother Pierre Lambert, fils, age 14, in 1765.  They may have sailed from St.-Domingue on their own or, more likely, joined a contingent of Acadian exiles from Halifax who stopped at Cap-Français, east of Môle St.-Nicolas, on their way to New Orleans.  The Lamberts, including Marie-Anne, settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Marie-Anne married Jean-Baptiste, son of Jean Goudreau and Geneviève Bélanger, at Cabahannocer in August 1775; Jean-Baptiste was either a French Creole or a French Canadian. 

Marie-Anne evidently was the only Acadian Boucher who emigrated to Louisiana, so this branch of the family, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Bouchers of South Louisiana are French Creoles or French Canadians, not Acadians, as Bobby the Waterboy could tell you.13

Brun

Like the Belliveaus, the Bruns were among the earliest families to settle in Acadia.  Vincent Brun was a laborer from La Chaussée in the Loudun area south of the middle Loire.  In the early 1630s, still a bachelor, he evidently came to Acadia as a laborer.  After his contract was up, he returned to La Chaussée and married a girl from his village, Renée Breau, in c1644 or 1645 and returned to Port-Royal with her in c1648.  They brought with them their two daughters, who married into the Trahan, Bézier dit Joan dit Larivière, Thériot, and Hébert families.  Renée gave Vincent two more daughters in Acadia who married into the Bourg and Gautrot families.  

Vincent and Renée had only one son, Sébastien, who married Huguette, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry, at Port-Royal in c1675.  Sébastien and Huguette had seven children, two daughters and five sons, all born at Port-Royal.  Sébastien and Huguette's two daughters married into the Pitre and Moyse dit Latreille families.  Four of their sons married into the Dugas, Pellerin, Gautrot, and Comeau families.  Huguette died at Port-Royal sometime in the late 1680s or early 1690s.  Sébastien, who never remarried, may have lived for a time at Cobeguit at the eastern end of the Minas Basin the early 1700s.  If so, he returned to Annapolis Royal, where he died in August 1728, age 73.  By 1755, descendants of Vincent Brun and Renée Breau were still in the Annapolis River valley, where they had lived for generations, but one family could be found at Chignecto.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family to the winds. 

The first Acadians rounded up by British forces in the fall of 1755 were the ones in the Chignecto area.  Nova Scotia Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed that so-called French Neutrals had fought with the French in the defense of Fort Beauséjour that summer, he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto-area Acadians to the southern-most seaboard colonies.  One Brun wife ended up in South Carolina, where she was counted as a widow in 1763.  Other Bruns eluded the British at Chignecto and escaped north to French-controlled Île St.-Jean or to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  The Brun who went to Île St.-Jean escaped to the Gulf shore after 1758 and joined his younger brother there.  The younger brother married a Boudrot at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in January 1760, a few months before a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French stronghold.  

Acadians rounded up in the Annapolis River valley in the fall of 1755 were deported to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and North Carolina.  The ship headed for North Carolina, the Pembroke, never made it to that colony.  The ships bound for New England and New York, however, reached their destinations.  Bruns were definitely on some of the vessels that landed at Massachusetts and Connecticut. 

Some Bruns at Annapolis Royal escaped the British roundup, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed to Chepoudy the following spring and made their way to lower Rivière St.-Jean, or to Shediac, Richibouctou, and Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they fought starvation, more hard winters, and British raiding parties.  Some moved on to Canada.  A great-granddaughter and a great-grandson of Vincent Brun died at Québec City in November 1757 and May 1758, respectively, victims, perhaps, of the yellow fever epidemic that killed hundreds of the refugees in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the hand full of Bruns on Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  A Brun from Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, was among the deportees.  She married a Labauve from Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, France, in September 1770 and died in France by October 1784, when her husband remarried at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes. 

In North America, the Bruns who had found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore suffered even more set backs in the fight against Britain.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, British forces gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  After the fall of Montréal in September 1760 and the end of fighting in North America, the French at Restigouche surrendered to a British naval force from Québec in October.  Some of the Acadians there managed to escape, but most of the others fell into British hands.  About that time, Acadians who had resisted the British on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore also surrendered or were captured and held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  A Brun married to a Broussard was held on Georges Island in Halifax harbor. 

In the early 1760s, even before the war with Britain ended, French authorities encouraged exiles in the seaboard colonies to emigrate to French St.-Domingue, where the French hoped to use them as cheap labor on a new naval base on the northwest end of the big island.  Another Brun from Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, who had been held in South Carolina and who was a sister of the Brun who was deported to France, married a Godichon from Gonnave, Anjou, d'Angers, France, at Môle St.-Nicolas, the site of the new naval base, in February 1782. 

At war's end, a Brun wife, widow of a Doucet, left Massachusetts in 1764 with an infant daughter and joined her fellow exiles at Halifax.  Most of the Bruns in New England and New York, however, chose to join their relatives in Canada, where some had gone as early as 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Vincent Brun began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, Bruns could be found on the upper St. Lawrence or along the lower Richelieu at St.-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Bécancour, Nicolet, St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie, L'Acadie, Maskinongé, St.-Michel-d'Yamaska, Yamachiche, Verchères, Pointe-du-Lac, and St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu; at Québec City; on the lower St. Lawrence and the lower Chaudière at St.-Marie-de-Beuce, Ste.-Famille and St.-Pierre on Île d'Orléans, Rivière-Ouelle, Cap-St.-Ignace, Rivière-du-Loup, and Kamouraska; and at Carleton in Gaspésie on the northern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Bruns also settled in present-day New Brunswick on Rivière St.-Jean in the middle of the province and at Memramcook near the southeastern shore.  In Nova Scotia, they settled on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the western shore of the peninsula. 

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

Despite the substantial size of the family in Acadia, only two Acadian Bruns--one a widow, the other a wife--found refuge in Louisiana.  They both reached New Orleans in February 1765 with the Broussard party from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue.  After a short respite in the city, they followed the Broussards to the Attakapas District, where they helped establish La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.  Anne Brun, age 27, came with husband Jean-Baptiste Broussard, age 34, and two sons, ages 13 and 1.  She died at Attakapas in November 1798, age 60.  Agnès Brun, age 22, widow of Paul Doucet, came with a year-old daughter.  Agnès remarried to widower Olivier Thibodeaux at Attakapas in c1770 (the marriage was sanctified at the Attakapas church in September 1786), and gave him more children.  She died at the home of her son Cyrille Thibodeaux at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche in October 1809, in her late 60s.  

Since no male Acadian Bruns came to Louisiana during or after Le Grand Dérangement, only the blood of this family endured in the Bayou State, in several branches of the Broussard and Thibodeaux families.  The Bruns and Lebruns of South Louisiana, then, are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.14

Carret

Ignace dit Saint-Jacques Carret, one of two Acadians with the surname, was born in France in c1687, probably no kin to the other Carret in Acadia.  Ignace came to the colony by c1718, the year he married Cécile, daughter of Martin dit Robert Henry and Marie Hébert of Cobeguit.  They settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin south of Cobeguit, where, between 1722 and 1744, they had at least 10 children, eight sons and two daughters (Bona Arsenault places them at Cobeguit).  In the late 1740s or early 1750s, the family joined dozens of other Acadians in the Minas settlements who slipped away from British Nova Scotia and moved to the French Maritime islands to get clear of British rule.  In 1752, a French official counted Ignace dit Saint-Jacques and his family at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island.  

Living in territory controlled by France, Ignace Carret and his family escaped the British roundup of their former neighbors at Pigiguit during the fall of 1755.  But, like their namesakes on Île Royale, their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at nearby Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the island and deported them to France. 

The deportation of 1758-59 devastated this branch of the Carret family.  They crossed to St.-Malo, France, on one or more of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in an 12-ship convoy and, despite a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Ignace, père, age 84 according to the passenger list (in truth, he was in his early 70s), and his wife Cécile Henry, age 65, survived the crossing despite their advanced ages.  So did unmarried sons Honoré, age 25, and Ignace, fils, age 13, who traveled with them.  Sadly, eight members of the family did not survive the crossing, including three other unmarried sons who traveled with them:  Joseph, age 31, died in the hospital in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759, soon after reaching the Breton port.  François, age 21, died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo in February 1759.  And Zénon, age 20, died probably in the St.-Malo hospital three days after his brother François died.  Oldest son Charles, age 37, a widower, traveled with three children--Susanne, age 5; Rosalie, age 2; and Pierre, age 4.  All three of the children died at sea.  Charles died in the hospital at St.-Servan in early March 1759.  Second son Jean, age 35, also a widower, accompanied his two daughters--Marie-Rose, age 9, and Thérèse, age 7--aboard one of the Five Ships.  The girls survived, but Jean died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo in February 1759.  

Ignace, père and the survivors of his family made a life for themselves as best they could in the villages and suburbs of the St.-Malo area.  Fifth son Honoré married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Benoit and Marie-Madeleine Thériot, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759.  He and his wife lived for a while at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Servan, where Honoré worked as a day laborer.  They returned to St.-Servan in 1760 and were still there in 1772.  Youngest son Ignace, fils, also a day laborer, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Clémençeau and Françoise Gautrot, at St.-Servan in October 1767 and remained there.  Honoré and Ignace, fils's brother Jean's daughter Marie-Rose also married a Benoit, at St.-Servan in February 1770.  Meanwhile, Honoré and Ignace, fils's mother, Cécile Henry, died at St.-Suliac near Châteauneuf in August 1761, age 65.  Ignace, père died at St.-Suliac three months later, age 74. 

In the early 1770s, French officials came up with a scheme to settle exiles languishing in the port cities on farmland owned by an influential nobleman in Poitou near the city of Châtellerault.  Honoré and Ignace, fils remained at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, refusing to join the venture, but their niece Marie-Rose and her Benoit husband went to Poitou with hundreds of other Acadians.  After two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians, including Marie-Rose and her family, retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  By 1784, Honoré and Ignace, fils and their families also had left St.-Servan and joined their relatives at Nantes.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, descendants of Ignace Carret jumped at the opportunity.  

Two middle-aged Carret brothers brought three sons with them to the Spanish colony, providing a chance for this family to set down roots in Louisiana.  They all sailed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships of 1785, which reached New Orleans in September.  Honoré Carret and his wife Françoise Benoit brought son Pierre-Marin, age 24, to the colony.  He was their only surviving child.  He did not marry, and he may not even have survived the crossing from France.  Honoré and Françoise had no more children in Louisiana, so this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.  Honore's niece Marie-Rose, daughter of older brother Jean, came to Louisiana with her husband Grégoire Benoit and a half dozen of her Benoit children, three of whom created families of their own, so at least the blood of Jean Carret's line of the family survived in the Bayou State.  Marie-Rose's younger sister Thérèse married a French-Creole Gautier family at Lafourche. 

Honoré and Jean's younger brother Ignace, fils was the other Carret head of household who came to Louisiana from France.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Guidry family at Assumption on upper Lafourche in January 1802 and died in Lafourche Interior Parish in her early 70s.  Her brothers Eustache-Ignace and Jean were the only Carrets who could have perpetuated an Acadian line of the family in Louisiana.  Jean died young; he may not have survived the crossing from France.  Eustache-Ignace married Marie-Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Boudrot and Perpétué Dugas, at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in March 1796.  Eustache Ignace died by July 1813, in his 40s, when his wife remarried at Assumption.  His two daughters, born at Assumption--Marie Carmélite in August 1804; and Silesie in January 1808--married into the Daunis and Prejean families.  Silesie, called Célesie by the recording priest, evidently gave birth to a daughter, Marie Philomène Caret, in Lafourche Inteiror Parish in March 1841, when she would have been in her early 30s.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not give the father's name.  Eustache's son Leufroi, born at Assumption in April 1810, did not marry, so, like brother Jean, only the blood of Ignace, fils's line of the family endured in the Bayou State.  The Carrets of South Louisiana, then, are French Creoles, Spanish Creoles, or Foreign French, not Acadians.15

Chaillou

Jeanne, daughter of Claude Chaillou and Marthe Bastrate, born in c1733 perhaps at Nantes, France, married first to Nicolas Cuomel and may have followed him to Newfoundland in the early 1760s.  She remarried to Jean-Baptiste, son of Abraham Bourg le jeune and Marie Dugas of Annapolis Royal, on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in October 1763.  Their daughter Marie-Geneviève was born on nearby Île Miquelon in c1767.  

Soon after Marie-Geneviève's birth, French authorities determined that Île St.-Pierre and nearby Île Miquelon were overcrowded and that the fisher/habitants there must be transported to France.  Obeying a royal decree, the first of them left in early October 1767 and landed in the ports of St.-Malo, Brest, and Lorient in Brittany, and Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay.  More followed in November.  Jean-Baptiste Bourg, wife Jeanne Chaillou, and their daughter evidently were among the deportees.  They likely ended up at La Rochelle near Rochefort.  Three more children, all sons, were born to them in France, two at La Rochelle in c1769 and c1771, and another at Monthoiron, Poitou, in January 1775.  The family's presence in Poitou in the mid-1770s reveals that it was part of the major Acadian settlement venture near the city of Châtellerault, which began in 1773.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Jean-Baptiste, Jeanne, and their children retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Jean-Baptiste died there in August 1777, age 44. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Jeanne Chaillou and her children agreed to take it.  They sailed to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  With her were her four Bourg children, three sons and four daughters, ages 18, 16, 14, and 10.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Jeanne died there probably in the early 1790s, in her late 50s or early 60s.  Her daughter and two of her sons created families of their own along the bayou. 

Jeanne, widow of Jean-Baptiste Bourg, was the only Chaillou to go to Louisiana.  Except for its blood, then, this family from greater Acadia did not survive in the Bayou State.16

Clémençeau

The Clémençeau family came relatively early to Acadia.  Jean Clémençeau dit Beaulieu of Bordeaux, France, a sergeant in the King's service, reached Port-Royal before 1703, when he ran afoul of Acadian Governor Jacques-François de Mombeton de Brouillan during the early months of Queen Anne's War.  The governor had authorized Clémençeau "to work on the distribution of the King's provisions and munitions" at the Port-Royal fort, but one of Clémenceau's superiors received word that the sergeant "was involved in some malfeasance."  The superior complained to the governor, who ordered the sergeant's arrest when Clémençeau returned to the fort, "but shortly thereafter he was released and his clothing was returned to him ...."  Evidently the sergeant had found an ally in one demoiselle Barat, "who promised to represent him whenever and as often as would be necessary."  Two years later, the war still raging, Clémençeau married Anne, daughter of Jean Roy and Marie Aubois, a métisse, in Boston, so the English must have captured him during Colonel Benjamin Church's raid up the Bay of Fundy in the summer of 1704.  Back at Port-Royal in 1706, Jean and Anne's marriage had their marriage blessed by a priest.  She gave him six children, four daughters and two sons, at Port-Royal.  Only the older son married.  Jean and Anne's four daughters married into the Martin, Héon, Lavigne, and Lejeune dit Briard families.  Most of them moved to Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, but one of them settled on Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island.  In the 1710s, Jean took up with Marguerite, daughter of Jean Corporon and Françoise Savoie, with whom he had a "natural" son, Jean-Pierre, in March 1712.  Wife Anne Roy died at Annapolis Royal in October 1717, soon after giving birth to her sixth child with Jean.  Jean dit Beaulieu's sons Louis and Jean-Pierre married into the Caissie dit Roger, Martin, and Gautrot families.  By 1755, the sergeant's descendants could be found at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale, on Île St.-Jean, at Chignecto, and Grand-Pré.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther.

In the fall of 1755, British forces deported the Acadians at Minas to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New England.  Jean-Pierre Clemençeau, his second wife Françoise, and at least two of their daughters, Marie and Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, ended up in Virginia, where they endured a fate worse than most of their fellow refugees.  The Virginia governor, Robert Dinwiddie, refused to allow the hundreds of Acadians sent to him to remain in the colony.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while the Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, Dinwiddie ordered Acadians from one vessel to be moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians in hired vessels left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.  The English held them in warehouses in these crowded ports, where many died of smallpox during the following months. 

One of Jean dit Beaulieu's daughters, Marguerite dit Beaulieu, wife of Jean-Baptiste Lejeune dit Briard, who had been counted on Île St.-Jean in August 1752, died at St.-Jean, Île d'Orléans, south of Québec City, in November 1756.  She and her family may have returned to Nova Scotia after the 1752 counting and escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755, or they may have left Île St.-Jean for Canada when they learned of the Nova Scotia deportations.  

Jean dit Beaulieu's other descendants on Île St.-Jean and the ones on Île Royale, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the islands and transported them to France.  Jean dit Beaulieu's daughter Marie-Anne, widow of Nicolas Lavigne, and five of her children crossed to St.-Malo on the deportation transport Queen of Spain, which left the Maritimes in late summer and reached the Breton port during the third week of November.  Marie-Anne died on the crossing, along with three of her younger children.  Marie Clemençeau, age 20, wife of Antoine Haché, and two of his relatives, crossed on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November and, despite a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  They all survived the crossing and settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo before crossing the harbor to St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  

The Acadians in England endured life in the port cities as best they could.  By 1763, more than half of them were dead, including most likely Jean-Pierre Clemençeau and his wife.  In May of that year, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  Among them were Jean-Pierre's two daughters--Marie, now 12; and Marie-Madeleine, now 11--who sailed to St.-Malo with relatives aboard the ship Ambition with relatives and settled near their island cousins.  Younger sister Marie-Madeleine was the first to marry.  She wed Ignace, son of fellow Acadians Ignace Carret and Cécile Henry, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in October 1767.  Marie married Pierre, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Madeleine Comeau, and widower of Marguerite LeBlanc, Élisabeth Darois, and Madeleine Vincent, in St.-Donatien Parish, Nantes, France, in February 1783; Marie was in her early 30s at the time of the wedding, and Pierre was old enough to be her father.  Meanwhile, in the early 1770s, their cousin Marie Clemençeau, her husband Antoine Haché, and their children were part of an attempt by French authorities to settle exiles languishing in the port cities on land owned by an influential nobleman in the interior of Poitou.  The venture failed after two years of effort, and in late 1775 Marie and her family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Marie died at nearby Chantenay in November 1782, age 40.  One wonders if cousin Marie and her husband Pierre Trahan also had gone to Poitou in the early 1770s and retreated to Nantes or if they had gone there straight from the St.-Malo area.  The priest who recorded her marriage to Pierre noted that she had been "resident of the Parish of Saint-Donatien in Nantes about 7 years," so they likely had gone to Poitou. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Sisters Marie and Marie-Madeleine Clemençeau and their husbands agreed to take it.  Marie, age 34, husband Pierre Trahan, age 62, and a year-old daughter, crossed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France that reached New Orleans in September 1785.  Younger sister Marie-Madeleine, age 33, husband Ignace Carret, age 41, and three children, ages 15, 14, and 7, also crossed from France aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Both families followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Both sisters remarried at Cabahannocer on the river in the early 1790s, Marie-Madeleine to Frenchman François, son of Pierre L'Autel and Anne Dansi of Bordeaux, France, in November 1791 and settled with him on the upper bayou, though she may have died in St. James Parish on the river.  Marie remarried to Frenchman Louis, son Pierre Delanoir and Marie-Dominique Noblez of Dunkirk, Flanders, in October 1794 and may have remained on the river. 

No male members of this branch of the Clémençeau family emigrated to Louisiana, so, except for its blood, the family did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Clémençeaus of South Louisiana are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadian.17

Clossinet

Louis Closquinet dit Dumoulin, a carpenter, born at Verrier, Reims, France, in c1700, married Marguerite, daughter of Vincent Longuépée and Madeleine Rimbault, at Louisbourg on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, in c1722.  In c1737, they settled at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, where they had at least eight children, all born on Île St.-Jean:  François in c1723; Pierre in c1725; Marie-Madeleine in c1727; Louis, fils in c1730; Joseph and Jean-Baptiste in c1732; Louise-Geneviève, also called Marie-Louise, in c1735; and Amable in July 1739.  Louis and Marguerite's son Pierre married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Paul Boudrot and Madeleine-Josèphe Doiron of Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in January 1751.  Marie married Pierre-Mathurin, son of Pierre Girard of Nantes, France, at Port-La-Joye in September 1751 and settled on Rivière-de-Peugiguit in the interior of the island.  Louis, fils married Anne Jacquemart or Jaquemin.  Joseph married Françoise, another daughter of Paul Boudrot and Madeleine-Josèphe Doiron, on Île St.-Jean in c1756.  And Louise married Charles, son of André Savary and Marie-Marthe Doucet, on the island in c1755.  

The Closquinets of Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French stronghold at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Marie Closquinet, age 34, who was pregnant, her husband Pierre Girard, age 39, two of their young children, and a domestic servant; brother Louis, fils, age 29, and his wife Anne Jacquimin, age 26; brother Joseph, age 28, his wife Françoise Boudrot, age 20, and their sons Grégoire, age 2, and Pierre le jeune, age 1; and sister Louise, age 24, her husband Charles Savary, age 31, their sons Jean-Charles, age 2 1/2, and infant Charles--all crossed on the deportation transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in an 12-ship convoy in late November, was damaged in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, put in to Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  All of them survived the crossing except for Louise's infant son Charles, who died at sea, and husband Charles Savary, who died in a St.-Malo hospital in late April. 

During their time in France, the family's name evolved from Closquinet to Clossinet.  Marie Clossinet and her family lived at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in 1759-60, where a daughter was born in March 1759 but died less than two months later, and in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1760-64, where another daughter was born in April 1760.  In April 1764, aboard Le Fort, the family left France for the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America.  They were counted at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district on 1 March 1765; the census taker noted that Marie and Pierre were suffering from fièvre at the time.  Meanwhile, Louise Clossinet remarried to Charles, son of fellow Acadians Étienne Trahan and Marie-Françoise Roy, at Châteauneuf in August 1759.  A daughter was born there in October 1760, and another daughter at nearby St.-Servan in March 1764.  Meanwhile, in April 1760, Louise's husband Charles shipped out on the corsair Hercules to fight the British but was promptly captured by the Royal Navy and held as a prisoner of war.  He remained in England until June 1763, when he was finally repatriated to France.  In April 1764, Louise and her family also left for Cayenne aboard Le Fort.  When French authorities counted the settlers at Sinnamary, Cayenne, on 1 March 1765, Charles Trahan and his two daughters were not on the list; wife Louise was counted with her sister Marie's family, so one suspects that her husband and daughters had died by then.  Louise remarried again--her third marriage--to Antoine-Joseph-Christophe Verge, place unrecorded, but it may have been in Guiane.  After reaching St.-Malo, brother Louis, fils and his wife Anne Jacquemin lived at St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1759-64.  Anne died there by November 1774, when Louis, fils remarried to Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Daigle and Anne-Marie Breau and widow of Amand Giroir, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Brother Joseph and his family lived in the St.-Malo suburbs of St.-Enogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, from 1759-65; at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1765-66; St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside east of St.-Servan in 1767; and back in St.-Servan from 1767-72.  Daughter Jeanne-Marguerite was born at St.-Énogat in April 1760; and Marie-Marguerite in July 1762 but died at age 18 months in February 1764--four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1756 and 1762, in greater Acadia and France.  Brother Joseph died at St.-Énogat in 1764 or 1765, and wife Françoise Boudrot remarried to Marin, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dugas and Marguerite Benoit, at St.-Servan in November 1766.  She gave him four sons, born at St.-Servan between 1767 and 1773.  In the early 1770s, Marin, Françoise, and their children, including Grégoire and Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet, became part of the attempt to settle exiles languishing in the port cities on an influential nobleman's land in the interior province of Poitou.  After two years of effort, Marin and Françoise retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government hand outs or on what work they could find.  Françoise's daughter Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet married Frenchman Étienne, son of Jean Peltier and Renée Prime of Baune, Angers, France, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in August 1784; Étienne was a stonecutter.  Their son Jean was born at L'Hermitage, Chantenay, in May 1785. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Mosts of the Acadians in the mother country took up the offer, including a hand full of Clossinets and their spouses.  Marie Clossinet, age unrecorded, and husband Charles Comeau, age 37, a childless couple, came to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  Louis Clossinet, fils, age 54, second wife Marie-Marguerite Daigle, age 37, and stepdaughter Geneviève Giroir, age 16, sailed to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in December 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  After a series of hurricanes devastated the settlement in 1794, they moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche and settled among the hundreds of Acadians already there, including a Clossinet niece.  Louis and Marie-Marguerite brought no children with them to Louisiana and bore none there, at least none who survived childhood.  The only member of Louis, fils's brother Joseph's family to emigrate to Louisiana was daughter Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet, age 25, her French husband Étienne Peltier, who crossed as a stowaway on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, and their infant son Jean.  If Jeanne-Marguerite and little Jean sailed to Louisiana aboard one of the Seven Ships, and it's evident that they did, they do not appear on any of the passenger lists.  The couple settled at Baton Rouge, a hint that Jeanne-Marguerite and her son crossed either on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, or Le Beaumont with her aunt Marie.  Spanish officials counted Jeanne-Marguerite and her family at Baton Roue in July 1788.  She and Étienne had more children in the colony.  By the mid-1790s, they had moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jeanne died in October 1800, age 40.  

Acadian Louis Clossinet, fils and his wife Marie-Marguerite had no surviving children.  The many children of Louis, fils's niece Jeanne-Marguerite Clossinet were Peltiers, and the children of Marie Clossinet, probably a cousin, would have been Comeaus.  Except for its blood, then, the Acadian branch of the Clossinet family did not endure in the Bayou State.  The Closquinets or Clossinets of South Louisiana today are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.18

Corporon

Like the Belliveaus and the Bruns, the Corporons were among the earliest families to settle in French Acadia, but none of these old families established lasting lines in the Bayou State.  Jean Corporon, a farmer from France, married Françoise, oldest daughter of François Savoie, at Port-Royal in c1670.  She gave him 15 children, eight daughters and seven sons, between 1671 and 1696.  Seven of their daughters married into the Boudrot, Doucet, Le Clerc dit Laverdure, Hébert, Johnson dit Jeanson, Samuel, and Seigneur dit La Rivière families.  Three of Jean's sons married into the Pinet, Joseph dit Lejeune, Viger, and Pichot families. In 1755, descendants of Jean Corporon and Françoise Savoie could be found at Mirliguèche on the Atlantic coast southwest of Halifax, perhaps in the Minas Basin, at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable, and especially in the French Maritimes on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean. 

Two of Martin Corporon's daughters by his second wife were deported from Minas to two of the British seaboard colonies during the fall of 1755.  Françoise, wife of Jean Roy, was deported with her family to Massachusetts.  Youngest sister Marie-Osite-Anne, called Anne, was shipped off to Maryland, where she married François Simoneau, a native of Lorraine, in c1759.  They were counted at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763. 

Their oldest sister Marie, wife of Honoré Trahan, outdid her Corporon kin in bouncing from one place to another, although they, too, ended up in Maryland.  In 1749, Marie and Honoré moved from Pigiguit to Baie-des-Espagnols on Île Royale, where son Pierre was born the following year.  Dissatisfied with conditions in the isolated fishing village, in the fall of 1754, fearing starvation, they followed other Acadians from Baie-des-Espagnols to Louisbourg and sailed from there to Halifax in British-controlled Nova Scotia.  After they took the hated oath of allegiance without reservation, Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence sent them not back to Pigiguit, where they wanted to go, but to Mirliguèche on the Atlantic coast southwest of Halifax, near the Foreign-Protestant community of Lunenburg.  When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia during the summer and fall of 1755, Honoré, Marie, and Pierre, despite having taken the unqualified oath, were among the first Acadians held at Georges Island in Halifax harbor.  In December 1755, the British loaded them, along with other Acadians from Mirliguèche, most of them kin, aboard the sloop Providence and deported them to North Carolina, where they landed probably at Edenton on Albemarle Sound in January.  They remained in the Chowan County area of North Carolina until c1760, when colonial officials allowed them to leave.  Most of their relatives found their way to Philadelphia, but Honoré, Marie, and Pierre moved to Maryland instead, where colonial officials counted them at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  Soon afterwards, relatives who had gone to Pennsylvania joined them at Port Tobacco. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Corporons on the Maritime islands escaped the roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755-56.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the islands and deported them to France.  The result was a disaster for the Corporon family.  Martin's widow Marie-Josèphe Viger, age 55, with her second husband Paul Benoit and her 25-year-old son Jean-Charles Corporon, were deported to St.-Malo aboard the deporatation tranport Duke William, which left Chédabouctou Bay in an 12-ship convoy in late November and sank in mid-December in a storm off the southwest coast of England, taking most of its passengers with it.  Martin and Marie-Josèphe's daughter Marie-Josèphe-Marguerite, called Marguerite, age 24, wife of Joseph Lejeune, was not aboard the Duke William.  She crossed, instead, with her husband and two young children aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédaboutou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, escaped the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Nearly half of the islanders aboard the Five Ships did not survive the crossing, Marie-Josèphe-Marguerite and her family among them. 

Island Corporons did survive the crossing to France, but few, if any, made it to St.-Malo.  In April 1762, Anne Corporon married day laborer Jean Thubert, a widower, in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, the naval port on the Bay of Biscay; the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names, but he did note that the bride and groom were "anciens habitants de l'Île Royale."  In June 1784, Anne-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Corporon, whom the recording priest described as an "officier sur les navires," and Jeanne Pichot of Louisbourg, married carpenter Jacques Dixmier, a widower, in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, near Rochefort.  Another Corporon ended up in France by a different route.  Pierre, son of Martin Corporon by his first wife Cécile Joseph, Pierre's wife Marie-Josèphe Viger (not to be confused with his stepmother of the same name), and their children were living at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable in 1755.  They escaped the roundup there in early 1756 and remained unmolested until after the fall of Louisbourg on Île Royale in July 1758.  That autumn, a British force landed at the cape and rounded up many of the habitants in the area, including the Corporons.  The British held them in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, before deporting them to England.  The English sent them on to France, and they landed at Cherbourg in Normandy in January 1760.  Daughter Marie-Blanche died in the Norman port in February 1760, age 11; and daughter Anne died there in April 1760, age 18.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died by November 1761, when Pierre remarried to Marie Simon, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in Trés-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg.  Pierre died there before September 1772, in his mid- or late 50s.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, none of the hand full of Corporons still in the mother country agreed to take it.

Eustache, son of Jean-Baptiste Corporon, Eustache's wife Angélique Viger, and their children evidently escaped the British roundup on Île Royale in late 1758, so they were not deported to France.  They sought refuge either in a remote corner of the Maritimes islands or, more likely, made their way across Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted Eustache Corp, likely Corporon, his unnamed wife, and five unnamed children on Georges Island, Halifax, in August 1763.  The war over, they did not follow their fellow exiles to Louisiana, Île Miquelon, or the French Antilles but chose to remain in British Nova Scotia. 

At least one Corporon ended up in the French West Indies by the early 1760s.  Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Corporon and Charlotte Roy, actually Marie-Charlotte Bourhis, born at Louisbourg in c1737, died at Fort Royal, Martinique, in November 1764, in her early 30s.  Her father had died on Île Royale in c1749, before the deportations there, and she married Jean Pitard "de Libourne," perhaps Lisbon, at Louisbourg in October 1752.  They likely were deported to France with her widowed mother and siblings in late 1758 and may have landed at Rochefort, where, in July 1760, Madeleine remarried to Jean, son of Antoine Borde and Marguerite Faur, also of Louisbourg, in Notre Dame Parish.  Jean was a "garçon ferblantier," or apprentice to a tinsmith.  They did not remain in the naval port.  Soon after their marriage, they resettled on Martinique in the French Antilles.  When Madeleine died there in November 1764, the Fort Royal priest said nothing of a husband, so one wonders if she was a widow at the time of her passing and if she had given either of her husband children. 

At war's end, most of the Acadians being held in New England chose to resettle in Canada.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Jean Corporon began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Françoise Corporon and her family from Massachusetts settled at Repentigny on the St. Lawrence above Québec, where she remarried to Canadian Antoine Dupuis dit Raymond in February 1785.  She died at Repentigny in February 1799, age 79.  Her cousin Eustache, who remained in greater Acadia after the war, chose to settle in a future part of Canada.  By 1770, he and his family were living at Pointe-de-l'Est near Halifax, Nova Scotia.  His older son Joseph married a Boudreau and remained in the Halifax area.  His younger son Abraham-Gilbert married a Doucet and moved on to Bas-de-Tousquet, today's New Tusket, at the northwestern end of Nova Scotia, in the early 1800s. 

Meanwhile, Françoise's sisters Marie and Anne and their Trahan and Simoneau families, still languishing in Maryland, also spurned life in a British colony when the war finally ended, but they did not go to Canada.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them o New Orleans.

The first Acadian Corporon to find refuge in Louisiana was Marie-Osite-Anne, called Anne, age 31, daughter of Martin Corporon and his second wife Marie-Josèphe Viger of Île Royale.  Marie-Osite-Anne reached New Orleans from Baltimore in 1766 with husband François Simoneau, age 38, a native of Lorraine, France.  They and their four children, ages 6 to infancy, followed their fellow Maryland exiles to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where hundreds of Acadians already had settled.  By the late 1770s, they had moved downriver to Ascension.  During the late 1780s and early 1790s, Spanish officials were counting Marie-Anne-Osite Corporon, husband François Simoneau, and their children on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie-Anne-Osite died at Assumption on the upper bayou in September 1802, in her late 60s.

Marie-Anne-Osite's older sister also went to the Spanish colony from Maryland--in this case, from Port Tobacco--but their experience was very different from that of the Simoneaus.  Marie, husband Honoré Trahan, age 43, and their 18-year-old son Pierre left Port Tobacco in January 1769 aboard the British schooner Britannia.  With them were other Acadian families and eight German Catholic families who also refused to remain in a British colony.  The ship's master somehow missed the mouth of the Mississippi River, and the Britannia ran aground on the Texas coast near Espiritu Santo Bay.  Spanish officials, who feared that these ragged refugees were smugglers or spies, held them at nearby La Bahía, where they worked as semi-slaves at the presidio and on nearby ranches.  After six long months, word reached the presidio commander that the crew and passengers of this vessel were harmless and should be sent on to Louisiana.  After a 420-mile overland trek from La Bahía to Natchitoches on the Red River, they reached the remote post in October.  Spanish authorities wanted to Acadians, including the Trahans, to remain at Natchitoches, but they refused to settle so far away from their extended families.  After a short sojourn on the Acadian Coast, where the Spanish sent them, Marie and Honoré chose to settle on the Opelousas prairies, where Honoré had family.  Marie died at Opelousas in August 1810.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she was "de cent ans et plus," or over 100 years old, when she died.  She was closer to 90.  

No male Corporon came to Louisiana, so this old Acadian family, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  However, all of the many Simoneuxs of South Louisiana, and many of the Trahans on the western prairies, are Corporons through their maternal lines.19

Cousin

Jean, son of Guy Cousin of Dol, Brittany, France, probably no kin to the other Cousins in greater Acadia, was born at St.-Malo in c1716.  He reached British Nova Scotia by November 1737, when he married Judith, 16-year-old daughter of Paul Guédry and Anne Mius d'Azy, at Grand-Pré.  Jean and Judith settled near her family at Ministigueshe near Cap-Sable, but they did not remain.  In April 1752, a French official counted them at Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island.  The census taker noted that Jean was age 35, that his wife, age 30, was a "native of Boston," and that "They have settled in the Colony for two years and have rations for that time."  The census taker added that their "dwelling was granted verbally by Messrs. Desherbiers and Prevost [Des Herbiers was the King's commissioner, or commandant, for Île Royale, and Prevost, actually Prévost de La Croix,  was the colony's financial commissary]."  Living with Jean and Judith were four children:  Bénomy, probably Bénoni, age 9; Marie-Blanche, age 7; Jean-Baptiste, age 5; and Marie-Madeleine, age 4.  They may have had another son, Yves, born on the island in 1758. 

Living in territory controlled by France, Jean Cousin and his family escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the habitants on Île Royale and deported them to France, Jean's family.  In c1768, at age 23, his daughter Marie-Blanche married Michel, fils, son of fellow Acadians Michel Doucet and Angélique Pitre, probably at Le Havre in Normandy.  In the early 1770s, the couple and three of their children were part of the major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou.  Daughter Marguerite-Bénoni was born at Cenan near Châtellerault in March 1775.  After two years of effort, the Doucets retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Meanwhile, Jean Cousin, back in his native St.-Malo, may have remarried to fellow island Acadian Thérèse Savary there in c1775.  If so, he would have been in his late 50s at the time of the wedding.  Two sons--Louis-Mathurin-Jean and Jean-François--were born to the couple at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of the Breton port in June 1776 and June 1780. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  If he was still alive, Jean Cousin did not take up the offer.  Daughter Marie-Blanche and her husband Michel Doucet, however, jumped at the chance, but they almost did not make it to Spanish Louisiana.  They booked passage aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships that left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in late August 1785, but for some reason they did not cross on that vessel.  Marie-Blanche, now age 37, husband Michel Doucet, age 45, and three of their children, ages 17, 12, and 9, crossed to Louisiana aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which left Nantes in late October and did not reach New Orleans until late December 1785.  Michel made his living as a sailor, so he and Marie-Blanche chose to settle with some of their fellow passengers at San Bernardo in what is now St. Bernard Parish, on the river below New Orleans.  San Bernardo had been settled by Isleños from the Canary Islands six years earlier, and the population of the settlement remained largely Isleños even after a dozen Acadian families settled there.  

Marie-Blanche Cousin was the only member of the Acadian branch of her family to emigrate Louisiana.  The Cousins of South Louisiana, then, are not Acadians but French Creoles or Foreign French.20

Darembourg

Pierre Darembourg, born probably in France in c1692 and no kin to the other Darembourgs in greater Acadia, married Marie, daughter of Louis Mazerolle dit Saint-Louis and Geneviève Forest of Annapolis Royal, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1722.  They settled at Petit-Dégrat down the coast from Port-Toulouse before moving on to Havre-St.-Pierre on the northern shore of Île St.-Jean, where Pierre died in May 1742.  Pierre and Marie had at least five children, all born in the French Maritimes:  Marie-Josèphe in c1727; Geneviève in c1730; Anne in March 1734; Jean-Baptiste in October 1736; and Jacques in October 1739.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married Jacques dit Jacqui, son of François Langlois and Madeleine Comeau of Annapolis Royal and Port-Toulouse and widower of Madeleine Prétieux, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in April 1744.  In August 1752, a French official counted Marie Mazerolle with her second husband, Parisian Étienne-Charles Philippe dit La Roque, at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's upper interior.  With them were two of Marie's Darembourg sons (called Du Rambour):  Jean-Baptiste, age 15; and Jacques, age 13. 

Living on an island controlled by France, the Acadians of Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the summer and fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands and deported them to France.  Pierre Darembourg's family ended up at Cherbourg in Normandy, where son Jean-Baptiste, at age 22, married Madeleine, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Henry and Claire Hébert of Grand-Pré, in May 1759.  Jean-Baptiste worked as a navigator, sailor, and day laborer in the Norman port.  He and Madeleine had at least four children there:  Jean-Baptiste, fils in c1761; Marie-Madeleine in c1762; Jean-Pierre in c1765 but died at age 6 in August 1771; and Marie-Jeanne in c1768--two sons and two daughters, between 1761 and 1771.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the coastal cities to the interior province of Poitou, where they settled on an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  After two years of effort, Jean-Baptiste and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  In February 1781, remaining son Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Chantenay near Nantes, age 20.  At about that time, older daughter Marie-Madeleine married Jean-Pierre, son of François Lirette and Michaela Chaillou of Nantes, probably in that city.  Jean-Baptiste, père's older sister Marie-Josèphe died by c1772, when her Langlois husband remarried.  One wonders what was the fate of Jean-Baptiste, père's other siblings during exile.  Was the Jacques Duborg of Île St.-Jean, age 21, who was counted at Sinnamary in French Guiane in March 1765, a son of Pierre of Île St.-Jean and Jean-Baptiste, père's younger brother?  Brother Jacques would have been age 25 that year. 

In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, some of the Île St.-Jean Darembourgs took up the offer.  Jean-Baptiste Darembourg, père, now age 49, wife Madeleine Henry, age 45, and daughter Marie-Jeanne, age 18, reached New Orleans in September 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughter Marie-Jeanne married Joseph, fils, son of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and his first wife Marguerite Richard, at Lafourche in April 1786.  Joseph, a native of England, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine's older daughter Marie-Madeleine, age 23, and two of her daughters--Marie-Jeanne Lirette, age 2; and Rose-Adélaïde Lirette, still an infant--also crossed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, but Marie-Madeleine's French husband, Jean-Pierre Lirette, did not accompany them.  He came to the colony on a later ship, and they also settled on the upper bayou.  

When Jean-Baptiste Darembourg and Madeleine Henry emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, they were too old to have any more children.  Their two sons--Jean-Baptiste, fils and Jean-Pierre--lay buried in France.  The Acadian branch of the Darembourg family did not take root in the Bayou State, though its blood endured there in two lines of the Lirette and Hébert families.  

This humble Acadian family should not be confused with another family in Louisiana whose name was similar.  The aristocratic Darenbourg or D'Arensbourg, descended from a German-Swedish soldier, lived on the German Coast above New Orleans from its establisment in 1722.  The progenitor of the family, Karl Frederick Darensbourg, commanded the German districts from 1722 to the late 1760s, decades before the Acadian Darembourgs reached the colony. The Darembourgs of South Louisiana, then, are either German-Swedish Creoles, French Creoles, or Foreign French, not Acadian.21

Darois

Jérôme Darois, born in Paris in c1670, arrived in Acadia by 1698, the year he married Marie, daughter of Dominique Gareau and Marie Gaudet, and widow of ____ Lachapelle, at Port-Royal.  Between 1699 and 1719, Marie gave Jérôme 10 children, five daughters and five sons, most of them born at Port-Royal.  In 1706, during Queen Anne's War, the British held Jérôme and his family as prisoners in Boston, Massachusetts.  After the war, he moved his family to Minas and then to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, putting even more distance between themselves and British authorities at Annapolis Royal.  Jérôme died at Petitcoudiac in c1750, age about 80.  Wife Marie did not remarry and returned to Minas to live with some of her children after her husband's death.  Their five daughters married into the Trahan, Breau, Gaudet, Saulnier, and Pitre families.  Only two, perhaps three, of Jérôme's sons married.  Oldest son Jean, born in c1700, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Babin of Pigiguit, probably at Minas in c1722.  He moved his family to Petitcoudiac with the rest of the clan.  Pierre-Jérôme, born in c1701, never married.  Étienne, born in c1703, married Anne Breau, sister of older brother Jean's wife Marguerite, in c1725, and settled at Minas.  Paul, born in Boston in February 1706 while his family was being held prisoner by the English, never married.  Youngest son Joseph, born at Grand-Pré in October 1711, also never married.  

Le Grand Dérangement of 1755 scattered this family to the winds.  Marie Gareau was a widow in her late 70s when the British deported her from Minas to Virginia in the autumn of 1755.  The Acadians transported to the Old Dominion suffered the indignity of being turned away by the colony's authorities.  For weeks they languished in the lower James River aboard disease-infested ships until, with winter approaching, Virginia's Governor Robert Dinwiddie ordered them to be dispersed to Hampton, Norfolk, and Richmond, while he and the colony's political leaders pondered their fate.  The following spring, the Virginia authorities sent them on to England, where they were packed into warehouses in several ports.  Marie Gareau died either in Virginia, on the voyage to England, or in one of the English seaports soon after her arrival.  At least two of her married daughters--Ursule Darois, wife of Sylvestre Trahan; and Madeleine Darois, wife of Alexis Trahan--landed at Liverpool.  Madeleine's husband died in exile, and she remarried to Claude, son of fellow Acadians Marc Pitre and Jeanne Brun and widower of Élisabeth Guérin, at Liverpool in May 1760.  Marie Gareau's son Étienne Darois and his wife Anne Breau also were exiled to Virginia.  With them were daughter Élisabeth, age 25 in 1755, and son Étienne, fils, age 17.  They, too, were held at Liverpool.  Élisabeth, at age 28, married fellow Acadian Pierre Trahan, fils there in February 1758 but died, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth, by May 1760, age 30, when her husband remarried.  Étienne, fils, at age 21, married Madeleine Trahan probably at Liverpool in c1759.  Their daughter Élisabeth, or Isabelle, named after his recently deceased sister, was born probably at Liverpool in c1761. 

In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, Étienne Darois, fils, his wife, his daughter, and his paternal aunts, along with other Acadians in England, were repatriated to France.  The Daroiss were sent to Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  Étienne, fils's parents probably had died in England.  Étienne, fils became a tanner at Morlaix.  He and his family lived in St.-Martin des Champs Parish in the Breton port.  Between 1766 and 1773, Madeleine gave him at least five more children, a son and four daughters, there.  In 1773, Étienne took his family to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture.  Madeleine gave him another daughter at Pouthumé near Châtellerault in August 1775, but she died only five weeks after her birth.  After two years of effort, Étienne, fils and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  They settled at nearby Chantenay, where, between 1776 and 1783, Madeleine gave Étienne, fils at least three more children, a daughter and two sons--10 children, three sons and seven daughters, between 1761 and 1783, in England and France.  By 1784, most of Étienne, fils and Madeleine's children, including all three of their sons and three of their daughters, had died--motivation, most likely, for the family to take up the Spanish government's offer to join their fellow exiles in Louisiana. 

Other members of the family repatriated to Morlaix went not to Poitou in 1773 but to an island surrendered by the British after the war, where French authorities offered Acadians a chance to become productive farmers again.  In late 1765, Étienne, fils's aunts Ursule and Madeleine Darois followed their husbands and other exiles recently repatriated from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Madeleine's second husband, Claude Pitre, died at Sauzon on the north end of island in March 1775.  When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in their Mississippi valley colony, Ursule Darois did not have the opportunity to go there.  She had died at Sauzon in December 1776, in her early 50s.  Husband Sylvestre Trahan, however, was still alive, but he refused to go to the Spanish colony.  He died on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1786, the year after nearly 1,600 of his fellow Acadians, including his Darois nephew, sailed on Seven Ships from France to New Orleans.  Sylvestre's children remained on island, where French officials counted some of them in 1792, during the early years of the French Revolution.  Members of Madeleine Darois's family--perhaps Madeleine herself--were counted by French officials at Sauzon in 1792, so they, too, remained in France.  Her son Paul Trahan from her first marriage died on the island in 1826, in his mid-70s.

Meanwhile, in North America, Daroiss from Minas and Petitcoudiac escaped the British in 1755 and made their way up to Canada via the Rivière St.-Jean portage.  Jérôme and Marie's second son Pierre-Jérôme died there in September 1757, age 56, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Pierre-Jérôme's oldest brother Jean died there, too, the following December, age 57, perhaps also a victim of the pox.  Jean's oldest son Simon may have lost his wife Anne Thibodeau to the pox in 1758.  Simon remarried to a Canadian in c1760 and the following year settled in the Acadian enclave at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence.  Jean's youngest son Basile also married a Canadian and settled at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence.  He and some of his descendants spelled their surname Deroy.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

At least two Daroiss--Jérôme and Marie's oldest daughter, Isabelle, wife of Sylvain Breau; and Pierre, middle son of Jean Darois and Isabelle's nephew--also escaped the British roundups in 1755, but they did not go to Canada.  They sought refuge, instead, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region and held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Pierre Daroy appears alone on a list of prisoners at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762.  Pierre married Marie, daughter of Paul Bourgeois and Anne Brun of Chignecto, perhaps at Fort Edward after the 1762 counting.  Isabelle Darois and her second husband Sylvain Breau, now an elderly couple, likely were held on Georges Island, Halifax. 

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

In late 1764, Isabelle Darois and her husband Sylvain Breau followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français.  They reached New Orleans in February 1765 and followed the Broussards to the Attakapas District in April, where they helped establish La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.  Isabelle was age 66 when she reached New Orleans; Sylvain was 52.  They lasted only six months on the lower Teche.  In October 1765, Isabelle and Sylvain died two days apart, victims of an epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians that spring, summer, and fall.  Isabelle and Sylvain were buried au dernier camp d'en bas (at the camp lower down), near present-day Loreauville.  

Isabelle's nephew Pierre Darois, age 28, and wife Marie Bourgeois, age 30, also came to Louisiana from Halifax with the Broussards.  Marie was pregnant when they reached New Orleans in February.  Later that month, son Michel was born in the city and baptized there on the same day.  In early April, on the eve of their moving to Bayou Teche, Pierre and Marie sanctified their marriage in front of a New Orleans priest--one of the earliest Acadian marriage ceremonies in Louisiana.  Spanish officials counted Pierre and Marie still on the Teche in April 1766.  Son Michel was not with them, so he, too, probably had died in the Teche valley epidemic of 1765.  Pierre and wife Marie did not remain on the Teche but joined other Acadians at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in c1770.  Spanish officials counted Pierre, now age 40, and Marie, age 42, on the right, or west, bank of the river there in January 1777.  After the death of son Michel, the couple had no more children.  Pierre died at Cabahannocer in October 1803, age 66.  Marie died there in July 1805, age 70. 

The last of the Acadian Daroiss who came to Louisiana arrived 20 years after their cousins had reached the colony.  Étienne Darois, fils, age 47, wife Madeleine Trahan, age 45, and their four surviving daughters--Élisabeth, age 24; Marie-Madeleine, age 18; Susanne, age 13; and Marie-Élisabeth dite Babet, age 8--crossed aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  From the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and then moved down bayou to what became Lafourche Interior Parish, where wife Madeleine died in September 1830, age 90.  Étienne died there in November 1833.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Étienne was age 106 when he died.  He was 95.  (Strangely, daughter Marie-Madeleine passed on the same day her father died, also in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 66.)  All of Étienne and Madeleine's daughters married on Bayou Lafourche.  Oldest daughter Élisabeth married François, son of fellow Acadians Honoré Duhon and Anne-Marie Vincent and widower of Élisabeth Landry, at Lafourche in April 1786, but he died soon after the marriage.  She did not remarry.  Youngest daughter Marie-Élisabeth dite Babet, at age 14, married Joseph-Marie, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Boudreaux and his first wife Agnès Trahan, at Lafourche in May 1791.  Her husband also died not long after the marriage.  Daughter Susanne married Fabien-Isaac, son of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert of St.-Malo, at Assumption on the upper bayou in April 1799.  The following November, daughter Marie-Madeleine married Mathurin-Jean, brother of sister Susanne's husband Fabrien Aucoin, the same day her youngest sister Marie-Élisabeth remarried to Jean-Marie, son of fellow Acadians Grégoire Benoit and Marie-Rose Carret.  Jean-Marie, like Marie-Élisabeth and his Aucoin brothers-in-law, also had been born in France.  

Pierre Darois's only son Michel died young.  Étienne Darois, fils brought no sons to Louisiana, and he fathered none after he got there.  As a result, the Acadian branch of this family, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Daroiss of South Louisiana are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign Frenchmen, not Acadians.22

De Goutin de Ville

From the late 1680s to 1710, the de Goutins were a privileged family in Acadia.  Mathieu, the family's progenitor, was second only to the governor in power and influence.  At one time, he held four important positions--chief judge of civil and criminal matters, counselor, colonial secretary, and paymaster--and in 1691 he was granted a seigneurie on the Atlantic side of peninsula Acadia.  He complained at one point that he had "no set time for drinking and eating, (for) I am more busy on feast days and Sundays than on working days, (because) the settlers use these days to conduct their business when they come to Mass."  One of those settlers was Pierre Thibodeau.  When de Goutin married Jeanne, one of Thibodeau's daughters, the young official established a lasting connection with a significant number of settlers, from Port-Royal all the way around to the upper Fundy settlements.  One Acadian governor complained that it would be difficult for de Goutin to render an objective judgment in many civil and criminal cases "because a third of the settlers are related to his wife."  De Goutin may have been, in fact, the only colonial official that the Acadians trusted to look after their best interests.  Between 1690 and 1711 at Port-Royal, wife Jeanne gave the busy official 13 children, six sons and seven daughters, most of whom created families of their own.  Mathieu's long career in Acadia ended with Britain's final seizure of Port-Royal in 1710.  Although he was given an important position on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, when the French established a colony there in 1714, he died within a year of his appointment.  His wife and children remained on Île Royale.  De Goutin's oldest son, François-Marie, also became a colonial official, on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean, and was nearly as highly placed as his father had been at Port-Royal. 

It was de Goutin's sixth and youngest son, Joseph de Ville, who was the first recorded Acadian native to go to Louisiana.  Joseph was born at Port-Royal in March 1705 during Queen Anne's War.  He was only the second of his parents' many sons to create a family of his own; all of his five brothers survived childhood, but only he and his oldest brother, François-Marie, took a wife.  Joseph was five years old when a British force captured Port-Royal and his father took the family to France.  When Joseph was nine, his father received an appointment as scrivener on the French-controlled island of Île Royale, and Joseph followed his family to Louisbourg, which the French transformed into a fortress.  Joseph's father died in December 1714, soon after the family moved to Île Royale.  Joseph came of age at Louisbourg and, like his oldest brother, became an army officer, perhaps serving in the Louisbourg garrison as an officer of troupes de la marine.  When his mother died there in April 1741, Joseph would have been age 36; he was still unmarried.  He may have been a part of the garrison at Louisbourg when it surrendered to New-English and British forces in July 1745.  If so, he would have been among the troupes de la marine transported to France, to be exchanged for British prisoners of war.  He did not remain in France very long.  He came to New Orleans in c1746, while the war was still on, perhaps still an officer on active duty.  At age 42, he married a local Creole girl, Marie-Jeanne, teenage daughter of Jean Caron and Marie-Anne Monique, in July 1747.  The marriage encouraged him to remain in the colony.  By the early 1750s, he was an officer in the colonial militia and "settled (in business)" at New Orleans.  Between 1750 and 1765, he fathered at least eight children, three daughters and five sons, all born at New Orleans:  Marie-Grégoire in May 1750; Jean-Baptiste-Joseph in June 1751; Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, in October 1752; Marie-Jeanne baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1755; Charles born in October 1757; Louis in January 1760; Joseph, fils in June 1761; and François-Marie le jeune in June 1765.  Not surprisingly, most of the godfathers for Joseph's children were fellow officers, some of them chevaliers of the Order of St.-Louis. 

Joseph de Ville's kinship with many of his fellow Acadians may have been a factor in so many of them coming to Louisiana.  Historians note that Olivier Landry of Chignecto, whom the British had deported to Georgia in 1755, who ended up at New York the following year, and was back in Georgia at war's end, was a kinsman of the de Goutins (Olivier's paternal grandmother, Marie Thibodeau, was Joseph de Ville's mother's older sister).  As the story goes, while Olivier and his family languished at Savannah in the early 1760s, they somehow communicated with his cousin in New Orleans, who informed them that the French authorities in Louisiana would welcome Acadians there. The Landrys and three other families--the Cormiers, Poiriers, and Richards, 21 in all--left Savannah for Louisiana via Mobile in December 1763 and reached New Orleans the following February--the first recorded Acadian exiles to go to Louisiana.  Olivier and Joseph may have enjoyed a tearful reunion when the families reached the river port, and it would be no surprise if Joseph was kin to other members of the party as well (de Goutin's eldest son Jean-Baptiste De Ville, only 12 years old, served as godfather for 3-year-old Jean-Baptiste, one of Jean Poirier's sons, soon after the party reached New Orleans).  Olivier, Jean, and their fellow exiles went on to Cabahannocer on the river above the city and sent word out by the remarkable Acadian grapevine that the French authorities in Louisiana had indeed welcomed them to the colony.  Exactly a year later, in February 1765, the first large contingent of Acadian exiles--200 men, women, and children led by resistance fighters Joseph and Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil-- reached New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, and settled on lower Bayou Teche, not far from a land grant held by Joseph de Ville.  The resistance fighters also were kinsmen of Joseph de Goutin de Ville; the Beausoleil Broussards' wives, one of them now deceased, were nieces of Joseph de Ville's mother, Jeanne Thibodeau.  Hundreds more Acadians came from Halifax later that year, and hundreds more from Maryland in the next four years. 

It is possible, then, that Joseph de Goutin de Ville, the first Acadian in Louisiana, played a significant role in his kinsmen's mass migration there.  Joseph de Ville's contribution was so significant, in fact, that Acadian genealogist/historian Stephen A. White calls him "the Godfather of the New Acadia in Louisiana."  White adds that during the October 1768 Creole-led rebellion against the unpopular Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa, the Acadians from Cabahannocer and San Gabriel who participated in the uprising rallied at Joseph de Goutin's home in New Orleans, evidence that the "first Acadian" remained close to his fellow Acadiennes, at least for political purposes. 

Joseph de Goutin de Ville died between 1768 and 1778, in his 60s or early 70s, probably in New Orleans.  In May 1786, his widow Marie lay claim to 50x40 arpents of land along the east bank of Bayou Teche granted by Spanish Governor Miró, the title for which was confirmed by Governor Carondelet in May 1794 and by Morales, a Spanish official, in April 1802 (this probably was her husband's original French grant of June 1764), but there is no evidence that she and her children moved there.  She sold the land to fellow colonist Charles Jumonville de Villier in July 1802, who promptly sold it to Alexandre Delhomme of Attakapas.  Marie-Jeanne did not remarry.  She died at New Orleans in June 1802, age about 70, and was buried in St. Louis Cathedral "in the third section of the nave of the chapel of the Holy Virgin of the Rosary."  This honor, and the fact that so many of her childrens' godfathers were her husband's fellow army officers, attests to the family's elevated position in New Orleans society. 

Only one of Joseph de Ville's daughters, Françoise, seems to have married, into the Peyroux family at New Orleans in August 1786.  Of his five sons, only the fourth one, Joseph, fils, created a family of his own.  The younger Joseph, who used the surname Bellechasse or Villechasse, served from a young age in the Spanish army and, in his mid-30s, secured his place in the colony's French-Creole elite.  At age 36, he married Marie-Josèphe-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of Étienne Lalande d'Alcour and Adélaïde Oliver de Vézin, at New Orleans in October 1797.  His wife's maternal grandfather, Pierre-François Olivier du Closel de Vézin, a native of Maine, Lorraine, France, had lived at Trois-Rivières, Canada, before moving to New Orleans, where he served as royal councilor and chief surveyor and inspector of colonial roads during the French regime.  Adélaïde's maternal uncle, Charles-Honoré-Hughes Olivier de Vézin, served as regidor of New Orleans during the Spanish period and moved his family to Bayou Teche in the 1790s.  As a lieutenant in the Fixed Spanish infantry regiment of Louisiana, Joseph, fils served as commandant of Spanish Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas at present-day Memphis, Tennessee, in 1796-97; he commanded the New Feliciana District as a captain in 1798; and, as a colonel, he commanded the Louisiana militia from December 1803 to 1805.  After leaving military service, Joseph, fils became a successful New Orleans businessman.  In 1805, he was elected an alderman and city recorder in the municipal council at New Orleans.  In 1806, he served as president of the city council, recorder, and judge for the Orleans Territory.  He was a member of the legislative council of the territorial General Assembly in 1806-07, served as president of the legislative council in 1810, and was appointed to the administrative council of New Orleans Charity Hospital in 1811.  The following year, he became a member of Louisiana's first constitutional convention and helped create the Pelican State.  His children, born at New Orleans, included Caroline in c1799 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1802; twins Joseph, fils and Jacques-Étienne born in April 1802 and baptized in May, but Joseph, fils died at age 1 in April 1803; Marie Thérèse Charlotte baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1806; Jacques Émile Adolphe born in June 1808, Marie Josèphe Céleste in January 1810; and Jean Louis in August 1814, on the eve of the family's departure for Spanish Cuba.  In c1815, Joseph, fils moved his family to a sugar plantation in Matanzas province, Cuba, and served in the Spanish militia there.  In May 1830, when he would have been in late 60s, records show him serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Matanzas infantry, "probably indicating his last years were spent under the flag he had served for most of his active career."  By then, the family's name disappears from South Louisiana records.23

De La Forestrie

Joseph LaForest, born at Angers, France, in c1690, reached Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of French-contolled Île St.-Jean in c1722.  In c1726, he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Guyon Chiasson dit La Vallée and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Martin of Chignecto and widow of Jean Pothier, probably at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre.  Joseph and Marie had three sons, all born at Havre-St.-Pierre.  Two of them married.  Oldest son Étienne, born in c1727, probably died young.  In August 1752, a French official counted Marie Chiasson, age 60, widow of Joseph La Foresterie, as he called him, and her unmarried sons Joseph, fils, age 22 (he was 24), and Jean, age 20, on the road from Havre-St.-Pierre to Havre-aux-Sauvages on the north shore of the island.  The official noted that Marie had lived on the island for 30 years.  Joseph, fils married Susanne, daughter of Pierre dit Cadet Robichaud and Susanne Brassaud of Cobeguit, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in July 1753.  Susanne gave him a daughter, Anne, at Havre-St.-Pierre in August 1754.  In November 1756, Joseph, fils remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste-Abel Duvivier and Marie-Madeleine Caissie, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord.  She gave him another daughter, Marie-Madeleine, at Havre-St.-Pierre in December 1757.  Younger brother Jean married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Bonnière and Madeleine-Josèphe Forest of Pigiguit and Île St.-Jean, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in November 1752.  Marie-Madeleine gave Jean three daughters on the island:  Jeanne in c1753; Marie-Rosalie in c1754; and Marguerite in c1757 or 1758. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Acadians on Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France. 

Joseph LaForest, fils, his second wife Marie-Anne Duvivier, and his two daughters, Anne and Marie-Madeleine, reached St.-Malo, France, from "other ports" in 1760.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Wife Marie-Anne died there by 1761, when Joseph remarried again--his third marriage--at La Gouesnière in the countryside southeast of St.-Malo in August 1761.  His third wife was Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Duboscq and Suzanne Lemercière of Rouen.  The Duboscqs also had lived on Île St.-Jean and had endured deportation to France.  Madeleine gave Joseph at least four more children, most of them at Plouër:  Jean-Charles-Joseph in January 1763; twins Jean-Joseph and Jeanne-Charlotte in April 1766, but Jean-Joseph died the following August; and Joseph III in June 1777 at the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay. 

Meanwhile, Joseph's younger brother Jean, age 28, whose surname was spelled La Foresterie on the passenger list, his wife Marie-Madeleine, age 25, and their daughters Jeanne, age 5; Marie-Rosalie, age 4; and Marguerite, age 6 months, crossed to France aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Jean, Marie-Madeleine, and two of their daughters survived the crossing, but infant daughter Marguerite died at sea.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance near brother Joseph, fils and his family.  Marie-Madeleine gave Jean two more daughters at Plouër, twins Angélique-Madeleine-Marie and Renée-Laurence in January 1760, but Renée-Laurence died 10 days after her birth.  Jean's oldest daughter Jeanne married Joseph, son of Charles Hébert and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Plouër in July 1772.  Jean's wife Marie-Madeleine died by 1773, when he remarried to Michelle, daughter of locals Julien Hervé and Gilette Lorre, at Plouër in February of that year. 

In 1773, soon after his second marriage, Jean, his new wife, his two unmarried daughters by his first wife, Marie-Rosalie and Angélique, and oldest daughter Jeanne and her family, became part of the major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou, while Jean's brother Joseph and his family remained at Plouër-sur-Rance before moving on to Rochefort.  After two years of effort, Jean and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Michelle gave Jean more children there:  Paul-Michel in St.-Similien Parish in January 1776 but died at age 4 1/2 at nearby Chantenay in June 1780; Marie-Madeleine at Chantenay in May 1778 but died there at age 14 months in July 1779; Jean-Michel in June 1780; Jean-Marie-Michel in c1783 but died at age 6 1/2 in June 1780; and Marie-Adélaïde in September 1785.  Daughter Marie-Rosalie married Michel, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Aucoin and Marguerite Dupuis of Rivière-aux-Canards, in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes, in July 1779.  Daughter Angélique married Moïse, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Bellemère, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in November 1780.  By then the family name had evolved from LaForest and LaForestrie to De La Forestrie. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Joseph De La Forestrie, fils and his third wife Marie-Madeleine Duboscq, perhaps still at Rochefort, as well as brother Jean and his second wife Michelle Herve at Chantenay, chose to remain in France.  Not so Jean's married daughters.  The three De La Forestrie sisters followed their husbands to Louisiana aboard two of the Seven Ships of 1785--Angélique and her family on the third ship, Le Beaumont, which reached New Orleans in August; and Jeanne and Marie-Rosalie and their families on the fourth ship, Le St.-Rémi, which arrived in September.  All three families chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Angélique may not have survived the crossing to Louisiana.  Jeanne's husband, Joseph Hébert, died by January 1788, when she was listed in a Valenzuela District census as a widow.  She remarried to Nicolas-Jean-Sébastien, called Sébastien, son of fellow Acadians Augustin Benoit and Françoise Thériot, at Lafourche in August 1789.  Jeanne died by December 1795, when her husband was counted at Valenzuela without a wife.  

No male De La Forestrie ventured to Louisiana, so the Acadian branch of the family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood did survive, however, in several lines of the Aucoin, Hébert, and LeBlanc families.24

De La Mazière

Jean-Baptiste dit Ladouceur, son of François Massier and Marguerite Lemoine of Véraise, bishopric of Saintes, near Rochefort, France, born in c1710, was a soldier in the troupes de la marine when he came to French Acadia.  He married Marie, daughter of François Poirier and Marie Haché dit Gallant of Chignecto, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in February 1737 probably after he retired from the King's service.  Marie gave Jean-Baptiste at least six children on the island:  Louis in c1737; Félicité in c1740; Marguerite in c1741; Jean in c1742; Marie-Louise in c1744; and Jean-François, called François, in c1746.  In August 1752, a French official counted François Mazierre, as he was called, age 6, Marie and Jean-Baptiste's youngest son, living with the family of Pierre Duval and Marie-Madeleine Haché dit Gallant on the south bank of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  Marie-Madeleine was young François's maternal great aunt. 

Living in territory controlled by France, the Mazières of Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  The fate of Jean-Baptiste dit Ladouceur, his wife Marie, and most of their children has been lost to history, but his son Jean-François--called François Maricre on the passenger roll, no age given, but he would have been age 11--made the crossing to St.-Malo aboard the deportation transport Duc Guillaume with some of his maternal kin.  The vessel left the Maritimes in late summer 1758 and, after a mid-ocean mishap, limped into the Breton port the first of November.  The family François had been counted with on Île St.-Jean--his maternal great aunt Marie-Madeleine Haché, her husband Pierre Duval, and five cousins--died at sea.  Only François and cousin Jacques Haché survived the crossing. 

Jean-François De La Mazière, as he was called in France, settled at St.-Malo until July 1760, when French authorities granted him permission to move to Cherbourg in Normandy, where he worked as a navigator, blacksmith, and carpenter.  Probably at Cherbourg, in c1768, he married Véronique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Renaud dit Arnaud and Marie-Madeleine Pothier of Île St.-Jean.  Véronique also had been deported to France in 1758 but had landed at Cherbourg.  Their son Jean-François, fils may have been born at Cherbourg in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  In 1773, Jean-François and his family, with hundreds of other Acadians languishing in the port cities, ventured to the interior of Poitou to settle on an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  Véronique gave Jean-François a daughter, Marguerite, born at La Chapelle-Roux southeast of Châtellerault in July 1775.  In October 1775, after two years of effort, Jean-François and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  They settled at nearby Chantenay, where at least four more children were born to them:  Jean-Baptiste born in April 1777; Louise-Cécile in November 1778; Rose-Jeanne in November 1781; and Marie in January 1783 but died the following June.  Two more of their children died at Chantenay:  Marguerite at age 5 in October 1780; and Jean-François, fils, date of death unrecorded.  

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Jean-François De La Mazière and his family agreed to take it.  Jean-François, age 37, wife Véronique Renaud, age 37, and their three remaining children--Jean-Baptiste, age 8; Louise-Cécile, age 6; and Rose-Jeanne, age 4--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which left Paimboeuf, the lower port for Nantes, in late August 1785 and reached New Orleans in early November.  During the crossing, another daughter was born to them in early October  At her baptism in the St.-Louis church in late November, two weeks after their arrival, they named her Martina, or Martine, after her godfather, Louisiana's Spanish intendant Martin Navarro, who treated the newly-arrived Acadians with sensitivity and respect and stood as godfather for all of their newborns.  From New Orleans, the family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Martine may have died at Lafourche, or she may have died earlier, in New Orleans.  In any case, she was not counted with the family at Lafourche in January 1788.  The couple had another daughter, Scholastique-Esther, at Lafourche in c1791--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between the late 1760s and 1791, in France and Louisiana. 

Jean-François's remaining son and three of his daughters found mates of their own on the upper bayou.  First to marry was daughter Louise-Cécile, who married Louis, son of Jean Augeron and Marie-Louise Levron of Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, at Assumption in January 1800; Louis's mother may have been a fellow Acadian.  Son Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Robichaux and his second wife Anne Hébert and widow of Jean-François Rassicot, at Assumption in February 1800.  Younger daughter Rose Jeanne married Antoine, son of Antoine Ledet and Marguerite Vilic of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1811.  Rose Jeanne died in Lafourche Parish in May 1865, in her early 80s--one of the last Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors.  Jean-François's youngest surviving daughter Scholastique Esther married French Creole Pierre Lagarde and died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1839, in her late 40s.  One of her daughters married a son of former Louisiana governor Henry Schuyler Thibodaux. 

Jean François De La Mazière died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1828.  The Thibodauxville priest who recorded the burial said that Jean François died "at age 85 yrs."  Two succession inventories, naming his wife Véronique and listing his children and their spouses--Jean Baptiste, "presumed dead"; Louise Cécile and her Ogeron husband; Rose Jeanne and her Leday/Ledet husband; and Scholastique Esther and her De Lagarde husband--were filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in January and February 1828.  His daughters had children of their own, but his son Jean Baptiste, who died in Lafourche Interior Parish in c1813, in his mid-30s, evidently did not.  As a result, the family line, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.25

Dumont

Jean-Baptiste dit Dumont, son of carpenter René Dubois and Anne-Julienne Dumont of Montréal, married Marie, daughter of André Simon dit Boucher and Marie Martin, at Port-Royal in May 1710.  They evidently were living at Petit-Degrat off the southeast shore of Île Madame, at the south end of the new French colony of Île Royale, when their son Joseph was born in March 1712.  Jean-Baptiste died at Grand-Pré in November 1713, but not before fathering another child, daughter Geneviève in c1713, according to Bona Arsenault.  The daughter, according to Arsenault, married into the Martin and Gauterot families in Canada, the first marriage at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny below Québec City in October 1765.  Son Joseph chose as his surname not Dubois but his father's dit and his paternal grandmother's surname, Dumont.  He followed his mother and stepfather, Dominque Viarrieu dit Duclos, back to the French Maritimes and, in February 1739, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Vécot and Marie Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean.  He and Marie-Madeleine had six daughters on the island:  Anne in c1740; Marie-Madeleine in c1741; Marie in c1742; Marie-Josèphe in c1745; Hélène in c1747; and Susanne in c1751.  Wife Marie-Madeleine died probably at Havre-St.-Pierre before August 1752, when a French official counted Joseph and four of his daughters there--Anne, Marie, Hélène, and Susanne.  Joseph did not remarry. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians of Nova Scotia in the autumn of 1755, Joseph and his daughters, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St-Jean and deported them to France.  Joseph and three of his daughters--Anne, age 20; Marie, age 17; and Hélène, age 12--made the crossing aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survivied a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Joseph, age 46, died at sea, but his daughters survived the crossing.  

In France, Hélène Dumont grew up an orphan.  At age 20, she married Grégoire, son of fellow Acadians Jean Lejeune and Françoise Guédry of Minas and widower of Frenchwoman Charlotte Des Croutes, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in June 1767.  They settled at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Between 1768 and 1772, Hélène gave Grégoire a son and two daughters there.  The son died in March 1769 three months after his birth.  In 1773, Hélène, Grégoire, and their daughters followed other exiles to the interior of Poitou, where they were part of a major settlement venture centered around the town of Châtellerault.  Another daughter was born there in May 1774, but she died the following August.  Their second daughter died later that month, age 2.  By December 1775, after two years of effort, Grégoire, Hélèn, and their remaining daughter retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Grégoire, a sailor, found work when he could.  Between 1778 and 1784, Hélène gave Grégoire three more sons and another daughter at nearby Chantenay.  The oldest of the three sons died at age 6 in March 1784 and the daughter in October 1784 a month after her birth, leaving the couple with only two sons and a daughter.  At about that time, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Hélène Dumont and her husband Grégoire Lejeune agreed to take it.

With three of their children--Marie, age 14; Grégoire-Alexis, called Alexis, age 4; and Julien, age 2--Hélène Dumont, age 38, and husband Grégoire Lejeune, age 45, crossed to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July 1785.  After a month of recuperation in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  They had no more children in Louisiana.  Hélène died in West Baton Rouge Parish in September 1815, in her late 60s.  Grégoire outlived her by 11 years, dying in July 1826, in his late 80s.  He never remarried.

Hélène was the only member of her family to make it to Louisiana, so the Dumonts of South Louisiana are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.  Only the blood of the Acadian Dumonts survived in the Bayou State, as did the blood of the Vécots of Île St.-Jean, through Hélène and her children by Grégoire Lejeune.26

Duplessis

Surgeon Claude-Antoine, son of Claude Duplessis and Marie Derivi of St.-Jean de St.-Quentin, Noyons, Picardie, France, born in c1710, reached British Nova Scotia by September 1736, when he married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and Marie Thibodeau, and widow of Antoine Lanoue, at Grand-Pré.  Catherine was eight years older than her surgeon husband and a granddaughter of Pierre Thibodeau of Pré Ronde and Chepoudy.  In the 1740s, Sr. Claude-Antoine moved his family to Chignecto.  They were there in the spring and summer of 1750 when,  in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian soldiers and Abbé Le Loutre's Mi'kmaq warriors burned the villages east of Rivière Missaguash to drive the Acadians into French-controlled territory west of the river  The surgeon and his family may have been among the refugees of this petit dérangement.  Soon after, Claude-Antoine and Catherine moved on to Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean probably to escape the chaos at Chignecto.  In August 1752, a French official counted the family at Havre-St.-Pierre on the north side of the island.  Their children were Anastasie-Adélaïde, born at Grand-Pré in June 1737; Marie-Louise in April 1839; and François-Marin, born probably at Chignecto in c1749.  With them was orphan Louis Labauve, age 12, native of Acadia's Atlantic coast.

Living in territory controlled by France, Claude-Antoine Duplessis and his family escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755-56.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Claude-Antoine, now age 49, Catherine, age 60, François-Marin, age 9, and a 16-year-old surgeon's apprentice made the crossing on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  For some reason, daughter Anastasie-Adélaïde, ages 21 and still unmarried, was not with them.  Claude-Antoine and Catherine survived the crossing, but their son died at sea.  The apprentice, Louis Labauve, called La Bore, son of René, on the ship's passenger list, died in a hospital probably at St.-Malo several months after they reached the port.  Claude-Antoine and Catherine settled first at Chateauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo before moving to nearby St.-Suliac in 1762.  A year later, they moved to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Claude-Antoine died in September 1772, age 62. 

Meanwhile, Claude-Antoine and Catherine's younger daughter Marie-Louise had married Pierre, fils, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Gautrot and Marie Bugeaud of Grand-Pre, on Île St.-Jean in c1758, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  They, too, fell into the hands of the British later that year and were deported to France aboard one of the Five Ships, perhaps the one on which her family crossed.  Pierre and Marie-Louise survived the crossing, she despite her pregnancy.  A son was born probably at St.-Malo in March 1759, two months after they reached the Breton port, but he died a few months later.  Pierre, fils worked as a farm hand and a carpenter near her family at Châteauneuf.  Between 1761 and 1772, Marie-Louise gave Pierre, fils eight more children, four daughters and four more sons.  Most of them died young, five of them at Châteauneuf and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and two of them in the early 1770s when the family was part of the settlement venture in Poitou, where their tenth child, a daughter, was born at Châtellerault in July 1774.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Pierre, Marie-Louise, four of their children, two sons and two daughters, and Marie-Louise's widowed mother, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they lived as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  Their eleventh and final child, another daughter, was born in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in c1778 but died at age 22 months in November 1780.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Marie-Louise Duplessis and husband Pierre Gautrot agreed to take it, but only one of their 11 children went with them to the Spanish colony.  Three of their older children, ages 20, 18, and 13 in 1785, if they were still living, did not accompany their family to Louisiana. 

Marie-Louise Duplessis and husband Pierre Gautrot made the journey to Louisiana in the spring and summer of 1785 aboard Le Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France.  Only daughter Marguerite-Adélaïde Gautrot, called Adélaïde, age 9, accompanied them; all of their other children had been buried in France or chose to remain.  Marie-Louise and her family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  She and Pierre, fils had no more children there.  Daughter Adélaïde married François, fils, son of French Creole François Friou and his Acadian wife Susanne Robichaux, at Lafourche in February 1792.  Marie-Louise died in Assumption Parish in January 1808, age 68. 

Frenchmen named Dupleci and Duplessiss were living in colonial Louisiana as early as the late 1740s.  They became especially numerous at New Orleans by the 1770s.  Marie-Louise Duplessis of Grand-Pré was the only member of her family to emigrate to Louisiana.  Except for its blood, then, the Acadian branch of this family did not survive in the Bayou State.  The many Duplessiss of South Louisiana are descended from French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.27

Durel

Charles Lacroix dit Durel, son of Pierre Lacroix and Jeanne Deville of St.-Denis-Le-Gast, Coutances, Normandy, born in c1705, came to greater Acadia by September 1730, when he married Judith, daughter of Gabriel Chiasson and Marie Lejeune of Chignecto, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, on the north shore of French-controlled Île St.-Jean.  Judith gave Charles a son and five daughters at Havre-St.-Pierre:  twins Marie-Élisabeth and Marguerite in September 1731; Anne-Marie in January 1734; Marie-Judith, called Judith, in August 1736; Charles, fils in February 1739; and Charlotte-Anne in November1741.  Two of Charles and Judith's daughters married on the island:  Anne-Marie to Charles, son of Noël Pinet and Rose Henry of Minas, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in April 1753;  and Marguerite to Joseph, fils, son of Joseph Préjean and Marie-Louise Comeau, probably at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in c1758.  Meanwhile, Charles, père died by September 1748, when wife Judith remarried at Beaubassin in British Nova Scotia.  She and her new husband did not remain there.  In August 1752, a French official counted her, second husband Pierre Le Prieur dit Dubois l'aîné, and her Lacroix dit Durel children at Havre-de-la-Fortune on the southeast coast of Île St.-Jean.  Judith and Charles's children tended to use as their surname not Lacroix but their father's dit, Durel.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds. 

Living in territory controlled by France, they and other Acadians on Île St.-Jean escaped the roundups in Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  In late 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July, the redcoats swooped down on Île St.-Jean, rounded up most of the habitants there, and deported them to France.  Charles and Judith's daughter Anne-Marie and her husband Charles Pinet dit Pinel, as well as daughter Judith, ended up on a crowded ship that took them to Cherbourg, Normandy, where they landed safely.  Other members of the family were not so lucky.  Judith Chiasson, her second husband Pierre Le Prieur dit Dubois, with whom the sisters had been counted at Havre-de-la-Fortune in August 1752, and their younger siblings and half-siblings, all perished aboard the deportation transport Violet, which left Chédaboutctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, destined for St.-Malo, but sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England.  Judith's namesake daughter Judith married Jean, son of perhaps fellow Acadians Abraham Daigre and Marie Boudrot of Havre-de-la-Fortune, at Cherbourg in c1759, or she may have married him on Île St.-Jean on the eve of the island's dérangement. 

Charles dit Durel's daughter Marguerite and her husband Joseph Préjean, fils of Chepoudy managed to elude the British on Île St.-Jean, cross Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and make their way to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where one of Joseph, fils's brothers served as a lieutenant in the Acadian militia.  In the early 1760s, Marguerite and Joseph either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the region and were held as prisoners at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in British Nova Scotia, with dozens of other exiles.  Daughter Victoire was born there in c1761.  They did not remain.  British officials counted Joseph, fils, his wife, and their daughter at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto, in August 1763.  In late 1764 or 1765, the war now over, Marguerite and Joseph chose to accompany 600 of their fellow exiles from the Nova Scotia compounds to Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, to get themselves clear of British rule.  From Cap-Français they moved on to New Orleans, which they reached sometime in 1765. 

Meanwhile, in France, Marguerite's younger sister Anne-Marie gave her husband Charles Pinet dit Pinel at least three children, a son and two daughters, at Cherbourg, between 1763 and 1771.  Sister Judith and her husband Jean Daigre, who worked as a fisherman, also had at least three children, all sons, in the Norman port, between 1759 and 1763.  In 1773, Anne-Marie and Charles followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the port cities to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture around the city of Châtellerault.  Their second son was born at La Chapelle-Roux near Châtellerault in January 1775.  Evidently sister Judith, Jean, and their sons did not follow them to Poitou.  After two years of effort, Anne-Marie and her family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  Older daughter Marie-Modeste Pinet dit Pinel married Jean-Baptiste-Charles, son of fellow Acadians Charles Haché and Marie Hébert, at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay in November 1784. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Anne-Marie, no doubt fully aware that her older sister Marguerite had been living in the Spanish colony for two decades, husband Charles Pinet, their remaining son Louis, unmarried daughter Marie-Madeleine, and married daughter Marie-Modeste and her Haché husband, agreed to take it.  Sister Judith and husband Jean, if they were still alive, chose to remain in France.  However, their oldest son, Jean-Baptiste Daigre, his LeBlanc wife, and their two daughters, followed his aunt and her family to the Spanish colony in 1785.

Marguerite Durel, her husband Joseph Préjean, and two of their children--Victoire, age 4, and Jean-Baptiste, fils, in utero--were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana, in 1765, and settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Joseph died by the early 1770s, and, in June 1772, Marguerite remarried to Joseph, fils, sons of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and François Dugas and widower of Anne-Marguerite Léger and Marie LeBlanc.  They remained at Cabahannocer, where Marguerite bore two more daughters.

Twenty years after Marguerite came to Louisiana, her younger sister Anne-Marie, husband Charles Pinet dit Pinel, and three of their children--Louis, age 22; Marie-Madeleine, age 14; and Marie-Modeste, age 20, who came with her husband Jean-Baptiste-Charles Haché and his family--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellows passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, not far from Anne-Marie's sister at Cabahannocer.  After 27 years of separation, the Lacroix dit Durel sisters of Île St.-Jean finally were reunited.  

Since only female members of this family came to Louisiana, and since they used their father's dit, not his surname Lacroix, the Durel families in the Bayou State today are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.  The blood of Charles Lacroix dit Durel and Judith Chiasson did endure, however, in lines of the Achee, Bourg, Daigle, Pinet, and Prejean families.28

Flan

Jean-François Flan of Paris, France, married Marie, daughter of Michel Dupuis and Marie Gautrot, at Port-Royal in January 1706.  Jean-François served as clerk for the Port-Royal fortifications--commis des fortifications, was his title--and for a time he oversaw the rebuilding of the town's defenses.  In June 1714, after the British formally took over the colony, Jean-François was among a number of Acadians who went to Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, to look at land there.  Evidently he did not move to Île Royale but remained at Port-Royal, which the British had renamed Annapolis Royal in 1710.  By the late 1710s, Jean-François had moved his family to Rivière-aux-Canards in the Minas Basin probably to put more distance between himself and the British authorities at Annapolis Royal.  Between 1707 and 1718, his wife gave him five children, four daughters and a son, in the two communities.  Their son, born at Port-Royal in May 1709, does not seem to have lived long enough to create a family of his own.  Three of the commissioner's daughters did marry, so the blood of the Parisian Flans survived in the colony in two of the colony's largest families.  Oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe, at age 22, married Charles-André, youngest son of André LeBlanc and Marie Dugas, at Grand-Pré in October 1730.  Third daughter Anne, at age 20, married Alexandre, son of Abraham Landry and Marie Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in February 1732.  Youngest daughter Marguerite, at age 18, married Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry, widower of Élisabeth LeBlanc and brother of her older sister Anne's husband, probably at Grand-Pré in c1746.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds. 

In the fall of 1755, British forces deported Jean-François Flan's second daughter, Anne, her husband Alexandre Landry, and their children to Maryland, where Alexandre died in the late 1750s or early 1760s.  Jean-François's youngest daughter, Marguerite, her husband Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry, and their children, some from his first marriage, also ended up in Maryland.  In July 1763, members of the family were counted in two places in the Cheaspeake colony:  the widowed Anne and six of her children, four sons and two daughters, at Baltimore; and Marguerite and her family, including 10 children, at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Marguerite died in Maryland in the mid-1760s, in her late 40s, leaving her husband Petit Abram a widower again. 

When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Petit Abram Landry and nine of his children, six of them from second wife Marguerite Flan, were among the first of the Maryland Acadians to emigrate to Louisiana, in 1766.  They and their fellow passengers settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. 

In April 1767, Anne Flan, still a widow (she never remarried), left Baltimore for New Orleans in the second expedition from Maryland with most of her Landry children and 200 other Acadian exiles.  They reached New Orleans in July and settled in the new Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river above Cabahannocer.  Anne was the only Acadian Flan to find refuge in Louisiana.  The Acadian branch of this family, then, did not take root in the Bayou State.  However, its blood did survive in two lines of the Landry family that settled on what came to be called the Acadian Coast.29

Fouquet

Charles, fils, son of Charles Fouquet and Claude Duvivier, born at St.-Jean-de-la-Haize, Avranches, Normandy, in c1702, came to greater Acadia in c1722.  He married Marie-Judith, daughter of Étienne Poitevin dit Parisien and Anne Daigre, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, in September 1724.  Marie-Judith gave Charles, fils at least 11 children on the island:  Jean-Baptiste in c1727; Louis in December 1728; Charles III l'aîné in August 1730; Jean-Aubin, called Aubin, in May 1732; Marie-Judith in April 1736; Jean-Martin, called Martin, in November 1738; Anne in July 1741; Élisabeth or Isabelle in c1743; Simon in November 1747; Françoise in c1748; and Charles III le jeune in November 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Marie, and nine of their children at Nigeagant near Havre-St.-Pierre.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds. 

When British forces rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in 1755, Charles Fouquet and his family, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Charles Fouquet, père and four of his sons--Louis, age 30; Jean-Aubin, age 26; Martin, age 20, and Simon, age 11--ended up on a deportation transport that landed at Cherbourg in March 1759.  Sons Jean-Aubin and Martin reached the Norman port, but of Charles, père and his other sons the record says only, "The fate of their father is unknown," which means he probably did not survive the crossing.  One wonders what became of sons Louis and Simon.  Soon after they reached the Norman port, Jean-Aubin and Martin sailed from Cherbourg down to St.-Malo in northeast Brittany, which they reached in late March.  Their mother, Marie-Judith Pointevin, age 50, and five of their siblings--Marie-Judith, age 23, Anne, age 17, Françoise, age 12, Élisabeth, age 14, and Charles III le jeune, age 8--had become separated from Charles, père and the older boys during the chaos of deportation and had crossed on one of the five deporation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January.  They all survived the crossing, but not its rigors.  Daughter Élisabeth died in a St.-Malo hospital two months after she reached the Breton port.  Her mother also must have have been fatally weakened by the voyage.  When her daughter Marie-Judith Fouquet married Honoré, son of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Angélique Doiron and widower of Isabelle Bergeau, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1760, both of the bride's parents were recorded as deceased. 

Marie-Judith and husband Honoré Thériot settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east bank of the river south of St.-Servan, where they had at least seven children.  Sister Anne married a French sailor, Georges, son of Nicolas Pollin and Jeanne Label of St.-Servan, at the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay in June 1764.  Brother Jean-Aubin married, or rather remarried to, Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Quimine and Marie-Josèphe Chiasson of Chignecto and Île St.-Jean, probably in the late 1760s, place unrecorded.  This may have been Jean-Aubin's third marriage, first to Marie Chevalier, date and place unrecorded, likely was after he reached St.-Malo; and the second to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Savary and ____ and widow of Jean Audaire, perhaps in Notre Dame Parish, Rochefort, in September 1763.  Evidently the first two wives gave him no children.  If he and Marguerite Quimine married in the St.-Malo area, they did not remain.  She gave him at least two daughters at Port-Louis near Lorient in southern Brittany:  Marie-Charlotte in c1770; and Jeanne-Madeleine in c1774.  They resettled in the lower Loire port of Nantes by September 1784. 

 In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Jean-Aubin Fouquet and his wife Marguerite agreed to take it.  The rest of his family--sisters Marie-Judith, Anne, and Françoise, and brothers Martin and Charles III--evidently remained in France, one way or another. 

Jean-Aubin age 52, wife Marguerite Quimine, age 50, and daughters Marie-Charlotte, age 15, and Jeanne-Madeleine, age 11, crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships of 1785, which reached New Orleans in early November.  They likely followed some of their fellow passengers to the Isleño community of San Bernardo, also called Nueva Gálvez, on the river below New Orleans, or they settled in the city.  Marguerite gave him no more children in the colony.  Only a month after her family reached Louisiana, daughter Marie-Charlotte, at age 15, married Silvestre, son of Silverio Gomes and Maria Gutierres of Senseca, Castille, Spain, at New Orleans.  Jean-Joseph Fouquet was born at New Orleans in November 1797.  A Spanish priest at the St.-Louis church recorded the boy's baptism the following January and called the mother Maria Magdalena Fouquet, "native of Acadia, resident of this city."  This likely was Jeanne-Madeleine, who would have been age 23 at the time.  The priest did not give the boy's father's name. 

Jean-Aubin Fouquet brought only daughters to Louisiana and seems to have fathered no sons there.  One of his daughters married a Spaniard soon after the family reached the colony, and another daughter seems to have borne a "natural" son at New Orleans a dozens years later.  The Acadian branch of this family, then, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Fouquets of South Louisiana are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.30

Grossin

Brothers Michel, born in c1705, and Pierre, in c1708, sons of Jean Grossin and Perrine Pétain of Carolles, Avranches, Normandy, settled at Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in the late 1720s.  Michel married Marie, daughter of Jean Caissie dit Roger and his first wife Anne Bourgeois, probably at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in c1730.  Pierre married Cécile Caissie dit Roger and his second wife Cécile Hébert, younger half-sister of brother Michel's wife, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in July 1733.  Marie gave Michel a large family on the island:  Jean born in September 1732; Marie-Louise, called Louise, in c1734; Marie in c1737; Jacques-Christophe in February 1738; Baptiste-Louis, called Louis, in August 1740; Henriette in September 1742; Michel, fils in c1745; Brigitte in c1748; Françoise in c1749; Modeste in c1751; and Robert was baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1755 but died at age 8 months in July 1756--11 children, five sons and six daughters, between 1732 and 1755.  Oldest daughter Louise married Pierre, son of Jacques Quimine and Marie-Josèphe Chiasson of Chignecto, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in February 1755.  Michel's younger brother Pierre and wife Cécile also raised a large family on the island:  Michel le jeune born in October 1734; Cécile in 1737; Madeleine in 1739; Anne in 1741; Jacques in August 1744; Marguerite in 1746; Rosalie in 1750; Pierre, fils in c1751; Marie-Louise in 1754; and Louis in August 1756--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1734 and 1756.  Oldest son Michel le jeune married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Chiasson and Anne Doucet, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in January 1758.  

Living on an island controlled by France, the Grossins escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, but they did not escape the terrors of Le Grand Dérangement.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  The Grossins were among the families who were packed aboard one or more of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  The family suffered terribly in the crossing.  Michel, père died at sea.  Two of his children who reached France--Jacques-Christophe, age 20, and Françoise, age 9--died in the hospital at Paramé, a St.-Malo suburb, in April 1759, a few months after they reached the port.  Michel, père's oldest daughter Louise, age 25, wife of Pierre Quimine, crossed on one of the Five Ships with two of their young daughters.  Louise and Pierre survived the crossing, but both of their daughters died at sea.  Pierre Grossin, père and his family also crossed in one of the Five Ships and lost two of their children:  Pierre, fils, age 7, died at sea; and Rose, age 11, died in the same hospital as her cousins in April 1759.  Pierre, père, his wife, and their seven other children survived the crossing, but Pierre, père died at St.-Malo soon after they got there.  Pierre, père's son Michel le jeune and his wife Marie-Josèphe Chiasson also crossed on one of the Five Ships.  She was pregnant when they left Chédabouctou in late November.  A son, Michel, fils, was born on 2 February 1759, soon after they reached the Breton port, but he died 18 days later.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died in the hospital at Paramé in early June 1759, leaving Michel le jeune a widower. 

Pierre Grossin, père's widow Cécile Caissie settled at Paramé, where, at age 46, she remarried to Nicolas, fils, 37-year-old son of Nicolas Bouchard and Anne Silvain of St.-Thomas, Canada, and widower of Acadian Marie Chiasson, in June 1760.  Nicolas and his family were living at Rivière-du-Nord-Est on Île St.-Jean in August 1752, when Cécile and her family were counted at nearby Étang-St.-Pierre, so one wonders if he had known the Grossins back on the island.  Cécile gave him no more children.  Her son Michel Grossin le jeune also had settled at Paramé and remarried to Frenchwoman Françoise, daughter of Augustin Renault and Marguerite Dagorne, at St.-Malo in February 1760, less than a year after his first wife died.  Françoise gave him at least two children at Paramé:  Pierre-Michel in April 1761; and Jeanne-Françoise-Nicolle in January 1763.

The war over, in April 1764 Cécile Caissie, second husband Nicolas Bouchard, and their blended family left France aboard Le Fort for the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America aboard.  Michel Grossin le jeune, his wife, and children followed his mother and stepfather to Guiane aboard the same ship.  His unmarried brothers Jacques and Louis and unmarried sisters Cécile, Madeleine, and Marguerite also went to Guiane, along with married sister Anne and her husband François-Jean, son of Jean-Baptiste Bard and Josèphe Talon of St.-François, Québec, who she had married in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in April 1764, on the eve of their departure.  Cécile Caissie's husband Nicholas was an early casualty of the venture.  She remarried again, her third marriage, to Frenchman Alexis, son of Jean-Isaac Hilairet and Marie David of Lansac, Sainte, France, at St.-Sauveur in the Cayenne district in July 1765.  Cécile died at St.-Sauveur in August 1768, age 54, surrounded by her loved ones.  The decision to go to the jungles of South America proved to be a fatal one for son Jacques Grossin as well.  He died at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district in March 1765, age 22, still unmarried.  In that same month, French officials took a census of the settlers at Sinnamary.  Among them were Marie Grossin, veuve Belier, age 40, of St.-Servan, and her children Pierre, age 16; Julien, age 14; and Jacqueline, age 12, all named Cousin and all born at Louisbourg.  One wonders how they were kin to Michel le jeune and his family.  Michel le jeune and Françoise had at least one more child in the tropical colony:  Joseph at St.-Sauveur, Cayenne, in November 1766.  Brother Louis survived the rigors of life in the tropics and married Madeleine Lope, widow of Jean dit Maroc Guilbert, at St.-Joseph de Sinnamary in May 1781.  One wonders what was the fate of Michel le jeune and his sisters in the distant colony.  Anne died probably at Cayenne.  Husband François-Jean Bard returned to St.-Malo via Brest in July 1769 and remarried to a widow at St.-Servan0sur-Mer in January 1770. 

Meanwhile, Michel Grossin, père's daughter Marie, at age 31, married Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and Marie Benoit, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1768.  They settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, where they had at least one daughter.  Marie's older sister Louise died probably at St.-Servan by January 1770, when husband Pierre Quimine remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Charles Dugas and Marie Benoit, at St.-Énogat, so Marie became her former brother-in-law's sister-in-law again.  Marie, husband Jean-Baptiste, and two of their children were part of the settlement venture in the interior of Poitou in the early 1770s and, after two years of effort, were among the Poitou Acadians who retreated down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes in November 1775.  Jean-Baptiste worked as a day laborer there.  Meanwhile, Marie's brother Michel, fils, at age 23, married Frenchwoman Cécile-Julienne, daughter of Pierre Troude and Suzanne Picart, at St.-Malo in December 1768.  Their son Michel-Pierre was born at St.-Malo in December 1769.  They were still there in 1772. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Marie Grossin and husband Jean-Baptiste Dugas at Nantes agreed to take it.  Other members of her family--the ones who took French spouses or had not gone to Guiane--chose to remain in France.  This included Marie's younger sister Henriette, wife of Frenchman François Galien, who she had married probably in the St.-Malo area.  Henriette and François had signed up to go to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, which left St.-Malo in mid-August 1785, but a note on the passenger list states:  "la famille Gallien n'embarque pas," that is, the Galien family did not embark, so older sister Marie Grossin was the only member of her family to emigrate to the Spanish colony. 

Marie Grossin, age 49, husband Jean-Baptiste Dugas, also age 49, and their 11-year-old daughter Marie-Josèphe Dugas came to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  A Spanish official counted them at Baton Rouge in July 1788.  Marie and Jean-Baptiste had no more children in Louisiana.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe, a native of St.-Énogat, married Pierre-Joseph, son of fellow Acadians Charles Lebert and Anne-Marie Robichaux, at Baton Rouge in 1794; Pierre-Joseph was a native Plouër-sur-Rance, on the west side of the river south of St.-Énogat, and had come to Louisiana as a teenager with his widowed mother aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships.  Marie died at Baton Rouge in July 1809, in her early 70s.

Marie Grossin was the only member of her family to emigrate to Louisiana, so the Acadian branch of the Grossin family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe Dugas and her husband Pierre-Joseph Lebert had no sons, but their only daughter, Lise Lebert, Marie Grossin's granddaughter, married Zéphirin, son of fellow Acadians Jacques Blanchard and Modeste-Aimée Bourg, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1813.  Zéphirin and Lise had many children, including at least six sons.  Zéphirin became a great planter, holding 66 slaves on his West Baton Rouge Parish plantation in 1850, so the blood of the hard-suffering Grossin family survived in the Bayou State.  The Grossins of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.31

Guénard

In July 1712, James, son of Andrew Gainier and Margaret Benard of Dublin, Ireland, was serving as a soldier with the British army when he married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Cellier and Marie-Josèphe-Aimée Lejeune of Minas, at Beaubassin.  James later called himself Jacques Guénard dit Gaudereau, signifying his entry into Acadian society.  Cécile gave her Irishman-turned-Acadian at least three children, a son and two daughters.  Their older daughter Marie-Rose married into the Bastien family.  Jacques and Cécile died before 13 July 1742, when their daughter married at Beaubassin.  Son Timothée, born in Maryland (an indication that his father was engaged in commerce) was baptized at Annapolis Royal in October 1716 and again in November 1718.  He married Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau le jeune and Anne-Marie Aucoin, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744.  Anne-Marie gave him at least two children there:  Joseph in c1746; and Anastasie in c1750.  There may have been two others.  Le Grand Dérangement of 1755 scattered this small family to the winds.

Timothée, Anne-Marie, and their children evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, and sought refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac or lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they had made their way north to the French stronghold at Restgouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge.  And then the war may have caught up to them in earnest.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British marshaled their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche in late June 1760.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to prevent a British landing.  Unable to captured the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restgouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On October 24, French officers, on the eve of formal surrender, counted 1,003 exiles still at Restigouche, including Timothée Guemard and his family of six.  The British held them, along with hundreds of other Acadians captured or surrendered in the region, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In October 1762, British officials counted Timothée Guenar and his family of five at Fort Edward, Pigiguit. 

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

Timothée Guénard, age 49, wife Anne-Josèphe Thibodeau, age 42, and their two children--Joseph, age 19; and Anastasie, age 14--reached New Orleans sometime in the spring of 1765.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed Anne-Josèphe's Thibodeau kin to Bayou Teche and, perhaps to escape an epidemic there, moved up bayou to the Opelousas prairies.  Timothée did not survive the ordeal.  He died either on the voyage to New Orleans, soon after they reached the city, or at Opelousas before April 1766.  He may even have been a victim of the Teche valley epidemic that struck in the spring, summer, and fall of 1765, though he does not appear in the Attakapas priest's burial record.  Anne-Marie remarried twice at Opelousas, first, at age 44, to French Creole François-Marie Rivard in c1767, and then, at age 63, to Joseph, son of Jean-Baptiste Loiseau dit Francoeur and Marie-Ursule Jutras of Montréal, in November 1786.  Daughter Anastasie Guénard married Amable dit Beaulieu, son of Giles Bertrand, a French Canadian, not a fellow Acadian, and Thérèse La Jeunesse, at Opelousas in February 1766 and died there in March 1789, age 38.  Anastasie's succession was filed at what became the Opelousas courthouse in February 1791. 

Anne-Marie's Guénard son Joseph also married, to Véronique, daughter of Philippe Duplechin and his first wife Renée Boff of New Orleans and Pointe Coupée, in November 1772--the first recorded exogamous marriage by an Acadian male in Louisiana.  Wife Véronique also was a resident of Opelousas at the time of their marriage.  They remained there.  Véronique died at Opelousas in November 1787.  Evidently Joseph did not remarry.  His and Véronique's daughter Ursule married into the Bracogne and Dauzat families.  Neither of Joseph's sons--Benoît, born at Opelousas in c1772; and Dominique in c1776--seems to have survived childhood. 

Guénards settled fairly late in Acadia, but they were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The immigrant progenitor died soon after he came to the colony, if he made it there at all, so it was up to his only son, and his son's Creole wife, to carry on the line there.  The son and his wife had at least two sons, but neither produced a family of his own.  Their daughter married twice, however, so the blood of the Acadian Guénards, if not the name, endured in the Bayou State in two non-Acadian families.  The Guénards of South Louisiana are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.32

Guérin

François Guérin, perhaps from Poitou, France, married Anne, daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert, at Port-Royal in c1659, so he was one of the earliest settlers in French Acadia.  Anne gave him five children, three daughters and two sons, there.  Their daughters married into the Godin dit Châtillon dit Beauséjour, Arseneau, and Doucet families.  François, père died at Port-Royal before the first Acadian census was taken in 1671.  Anne remarried to Pierre l'aîné, son of Denis Gaudet and Martine Gauthier, at Port-Royal c1672.  Anne's younger son François Guérin, fils probably died young, but older son Jérôme came of age and fathered many children of his own.  Jérôme married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of  Martin Aucoin and Marie Gaudet, at Port-Royal in c1698.  They moved to Cobeguit, at the east end of the Minas Basin, by 1701, one of the first families to settle there, and had 13 children, eight daughters and five sons.  Seven of their daughters married into the Bourg, Thériot, Pitre, Boudrot, and Dugas families, two of them to brothers.  Jérôme and Isabelle's five sons, all born at Cobeguit, married into the Bourg, Mius, LeBlanc, and Henry families.  All of them left Cobeguit for Île St.-Jean or Île Royale before 1752.  By 1755, most, if not all, of François Guérin's descendants were living on the French Maritime islands.  

When the British rounded up Acadians in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755, the Guérins, living on islands controlled by France, were safe for now.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the islands and deported them to France.  The crossing devastated the family.  Jérôme's daughter Marguerite Guérin, wife of Pierre Thériot, lost her husband and three of their five children aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which left Île Royale in late summer and, after a mid-ocean mishap, limped into St.-Malo harbor at the beginning of November.  The rigors of the voyage soon caught up to her:  she died in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer soon after her ship reached the Breton port.  According to the Duc Guillaume passenger list, sister Françoise, widow of François Thériot, also died on the same vessel (in truth, she survived the crossing).  Six children of Jérôme's son Pierre also crossed on the Duc Guillaume.  Two of them--Josèphe and Agricole--perished, while Gertrude, Joseph, Louis, and Pierre, fils survived the crossing.  Soon after reaching France, Louis and Pierre, fils moved from St.-Malo to Lorient in southern Brittany to work as sailors.  Pierre Guérin's's sister Isabelle and her family also died aboard the Duc Guillaume.  Brother François, his wife Geneviève Mius, and their two daughters crossed on the transport Duke William, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, bound for St.-Malo, and sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, taking the family, and most of the other passengers, with it.  François's sister Henriette, age 45, wife of Olivier Boudrot, age 47, crossed with her family aboard one of the five deporation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy in late November, survived the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Like brother François and so many of her nieces and nephews, Henriette perished on the voyage, along with four of her own children.  Only husband Olivier and a 15-year-old daughter survived the crossing.  Brother Jean-Baptiste Guérin, age 36, wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg, age 35, and four of their children also crossed on one of the Five Ships.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Madeleine survived the crossing, but two of their children--daughter Marie-Madeleine, age 4; and son Xavier, age 2--died at sea.  Sons Jean-Pierre, age 9; and Jérôme, age 6, survived the crossing.  Jean-Baptiste's younger brother Dominique, age 36, his wife Anne LeBlanc, age 31, and six of their children crossed on one of the Five Ships.  Dominique and Anne survived the crossing, but two of their children--Anastasie, age 10; and Françoise, age 3--died at sea, and two more daughters--Anne-Josèphe, age 12; and Marie, age 3 month--died in the hospital at St.-Malo soon after reaching the Breton port.  Only daughter Marguerite, age 8, and son Joseph, age 6, survived the crossing.  Youngest brother Charles, age 34, wife Marguerite Henry, age 34, and four of their children also crossed on one of the Five Ships.  Charles died in a St.-Malo hospital two months after reaching France.  Marguerite survived the crossing, but half of their children--sons Marin, age 8; and Alexis, age 5 months--died at sea.  Only daughters Tarsile, age 11, and Marguerite-Josèphe, age 5, made it to France.  Marie, age 59, one of Jérome Guérin's oldest daughters and wife of Claude Thériot, ended up not at St.-Malo but at Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay, where she died at the Hôpital des oprhelins soon after she reached the naval port. 

The island Guérins did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  After brothers Louis and Pierre, fils Guérin left St.-Malo for Lorient in January 1759, they disappear from the historical record, unless Louis was the Guérin who went to French St.-Domingue and died there in January 1776.  Dominique Guérin and wife Anne LeBlanc settled first at Ploubalay on the west bank of the river south of St.-Malo and then at nearby Trigavou and had more children there:  Élisabeth, or Isabelle, in October 1760; another Françoise in May 1763; another Anastasie in February 1766 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1767; and Brigide in August 1769.  In 1773, Dominique and his family, along with hundreds of other exiles languishing in the coastal cities, ventured to the interior of Poitou, where they hoped to become productive farmers.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where Dominique, Anne, and their younger children lived in St.-Jacques Parish across the river from Nantes.  Son Joseph lived in St.-Similien Parish on the northwest side of Nantes, where he married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Pitre and Jeanne Moïse, in April 1776.  Two daughters were born to them at Nantes:  Marie-Joséphine in St.-Similien Parish in January 1777; and Françoise in St.-Jacques Parish in April 1784.  Dominique's wife Anne died in St.-Jacques Parish in May 1782, age 56.  Daughter Françoise married Jacques, son of fellow Acadians Étienne Thériot and Hélène Landry, in St.-Jacques Parish in November 1784.  Meanwhile, after the crossing from the Maritimes, Dominique's older sister Françoise settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  She was a widow when she came to France and did not remarry.  Dominique's older brother Jean-Baptiste and wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where they had more children:  Joseph in September 1760; and Ambroise in August 1762.  Jean-Baptiste died at St.-Suliac in December 1771, age 50.  His son Jérôme le jeune married fellow Acadian Marie Pitre perhaps at St.-Suliac in the late 1770s.  Dominique's niece Tarsile, daughter of younger brother Charles, married Jacques, fils, son of fellow Acadians Jacques Forest and Claire Vincent, at St.-Servan in August 1774.  Jacques, fils also had come to France aboard one of the Five Ships.  The fate of Tarsile's younger sister Marguerite-Josèphe is lost to history. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Several of the Guérins, including Dominique and his family, a sister, and a nephew, agreed to take it.  Other members of the family chose to remain in France. 

The nine Acadian Guérins who emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France sailed aboard three of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans from mid-August to early December 1785.  Most of them followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Dominique Guérin, age 63, now a widower, sailed to New Orleans aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  With him were two of his unmarried daughters--Élisabeth, or Isabelle, age 25; and Brigide, age 15.  Dominique may have died on the crossing or in New Orleans soon after the ship arrived; he appears in no Louisiana census.  Élisabeth married Jean-Pierre, son of fellow Acadians Prosper Landry and Isabelle Pitre, at Lafourche in February 1786 but died by 1790, when her husband remarried there.  Jean-Pierre, a native of Pleurtuit near St..-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, so he and Élisabeth probably had known one another in France.  Brigide married François-Jean, son of fellow Acadians Blaise Thibodeaux and Catherine Daigle, on the upper Lafourche in July 1796.  François-Jean, a native of Mordreuc near Pleuidhen-sur-Rance, on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, also had come to the colony from France, aboard a later vessel.  Brigide died in Assumption Parish in April 1830.  The Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that she died at "age 66 yrs."  She was 60. 

Dominique's son Joseph, age 33, also crossed on La Bergère, with wife Agnès Pitre, age 38, and their year-old daughter Françoise.  One wonders if Françoise survived the crossing.  Joseph and Agnès had another daughter, Agnès, at Lafourche in September 1787, but they had no sons.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in December 1813, in his early 60s.  His line of the family died with him. 

Dominique's middle daughter, Françoise, age 22, crossed on La Bergère with husband Jacques Thériot, age 25, and an infant daughter.  Françoise died a widow in Assumption Parish in October 1849.  The Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that she died at "age 47 years."  She was 86!

Dominique's nephew, Jérôme, son of Jean-Baptiste Guérin, age 35, crossed with wife Marie Pitre, age 38, and infant son Jean-Pierre on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  Jean-Pierre either did not survive the crossing or died in Louisiana soon after the family reached the city.  Jérôme and Marie had a daughter in Louisiana, Marie-Anne, but they had no more sons.  They also settled on the upper Lafourche.  Jérôme's date of death is unrecorded.

Only one of the Acadian Guérins who came to Louisiana from France chose to settle on the river above New Orleans.  Dominique's older sister Françoise, age 75, widow of François Thériot, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which sailed to New Orleans from St.-Malo.  With her was the family of Charles Henry and Marguerite Thériot, probably her daughter and son-in-law.  They reached New Orleans in early December and followed their fellow passengers probably to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge before resettling at Baton Rouge. 

Guérins were early settlers in Acadia, but, compared to other Acadian families, they came "late" to Louisiana.  Three families from France reached the colony in 1785, giving promise that the Acadian Guérins would thrive there.  But none of the family heads who came to the Spanish colony had sons who created families of their own, so only the blood of this long-suffering family from the Maritimes endured in the Bayou State.  The Guérins of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.33

Hamon

Two Frenchmen with similar-sounding surnames came to greater Acadia during the early 1730s and settled in the French Maritimes.  One suspects that they hailed from different families.  An "Acadian" who emigrated from France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and who also bore the name Hamon likely was not a descendant of either of the island progenitors but may have been a native of France. 

Jean, fils, son of perhaps Jean Amont, also called Hamond, Hémond, and Emond, and Marguerite Gastineau-Duplessis of Trois-Rivières, Canada, where he may have been born in November 1695, married Acadian Marie Blanchard and settled in the French Maritimes, most likely on Île St.-Jean.  They had at least three sons there:  Pierre born in c1732; Ignace in c1748; and Joseph in c1752.  Jean and Marie died on one of the islands probably before 1758.

Another Jean, son of Oliver Hamon and Françoise Pireau, born at Reintembault, diocese of Dol, Brittany, France, in c1714, emigrated to Louisbourg on Île Royale by January 1736, when he married Marie, daughter of Joannis Daguerre and Marie Charlant, at the French citadel.  Jean may have been a soldier stationed in the garrison.  He and Françoise had at least six children, three daughters and three sons, at Louisbourg:  Françoise born in c1737; Jean-Baptiste in c1738; Jean-François in c1739; Mathurin in c1739 or 1740; Marie-Gervaise in c1742; and Cécile in c1744.  One of their daughters married into the David and Maigne families. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the habitants and soldiers on the Maritime islands, living in territory controlled by France, escaped the deportations.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up the military personnel and most of the habitants on the islands and deported them to France. 

Jean Hamon, wife Françoise Pireau, and their children at Louisbourg were deported to the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay.  In October 1759, Jean took his family to St.-Malo, where the majority of the Maritime Acadians had been transported.  They lived in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1760 to 1763.  Jean's son Mathurin, age 20 in 1760, served probably as a privateer in the war against Britain.  He was captured by the Royal Navy, held as a prisoner in England until the end of the war, and returned to St.-Servan in the spring of 1763.  Later that year, Mathurin, his father, and perhaps the rest of the family left France aboard Le Marie-Charlotte and settled on one of the French-controlled fishery islands, St.-Pierre or Miquelon, off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Mathurin did not remain there.  He returned to France by January 1766, when he married Marie, daughter of locals René Renault and Élisabeth Lelardon, at St.-Servan.  They had at least two children there:  Mathurin, fils in c1768; and Julien in c1772.  Mathurin and Marie sailed from France to St.-Pierre or Miquelon in the late 1760s or the 1770s, but, again, Mathurin, this time not of his own volition, did not stay there long.  During the American Revolution, after France joined the war on the side of the Americans, the British seized Miquelon and St.-Pierre and deported the fisher/habitants there to France.  Mathurin and his family made the crossing aboard the schooner La Modeste, which reached St.-Malo in November 1778.  One wonders if they returned to the Newfoundland islands in 1784, after the war had ended. 

Pierre, oldest son of Jean Hamon of Trois-Rivières and Île St.-Jean, escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and fled to Canada, where, at age 35, he married Marie-Thérèse, daughter of French Canadian Jacques Fradet, at St.-Vallier on the south bank of the St. Lawrence below Québec City in November 1767.  Pierre, called Le Cadien by his family and neighbors, died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse near Québec in 1831, purportedly at age 99.  His many descendants in Canada call themselves Emond.

Pierre Hamon's younger brothers--Ignace, age 10, and Joseph, age 6, in 1758--were captured by the British, who transported them to St.-Malo.  They crossed with related families aboard one or more of the five deporation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached the Breton port together in late January 1759.  Joseph crossed with the family of Pierre Blanchard, probably a relative, Pierre's wife Madeleine Hébert, and two of their children.  Joseph did not survive the crossing but died along with Pierre Blanchard and both of his children aboard the transport; only Pierre's wife Madeleine made it to St.-Malo.  Ignace crossed with the family of another Pierre Blanchard, Pierre's wife Françoise Breau, and their 21-year-old son Charles.  Pierre and Françoise died at sea.  Son Charles made it to France but died in a St.-Malo hospital three months after he reached the port city.  Only young Ignace Hamon endured the crossing without losing his health.  He lived probably with relatives at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo from 1759 to 1760 before moving to Pleudihen-sur-Rance across the river.  French officials counted him at Morlaix in northwest Brittany in 1764-65, though he claimed to be a resident of Pleudihen.  He was back at Pleudihen in May 1770, when, at age 22, he married Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Bourg and Cécile Michel.  Ignace and Anne-Josèphe's daughter Anne-Madeleine was born at Pleudihen in July 1773.  Soon after her birth, Ignace and Anne-Josèphe followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the port cities to the interior of Poitou, where they worked an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  Anne-Josèphe gave Ignace another daughter there, Marie-Modeste, born in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in May 1775.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Ignace, Anne-Josèphe, and their daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where Igance worked as a quarryman.  At least three more children were born to them at Chantenay, where the Nantes-area quarries were located:  Catherine-Françoise in c1777 but died at age 5 in August 1782; Jean-Étienne baptized on 9 June 1780, age unrecorded, but died a few weeks later; and an unnamed child, gender and unrecorded, buried in November 1782--a dreadful year for the family. 

Guillaume, son of Joseph Hamon and his French wife Marie Dameue, born perhaps at Chantenay in c1761, married Marguerite, daughter of Acadians Charles Saulnier and Euphrosine Lalande of Rivière-aux-Canards, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in November 1780.  Guillaume worked as a carpenter in Nantes, where Spanish agents counted him with his wife and hundreds of others Acadians in September 1784.  His relationship to Ignace and the other Hamons is anyone's guess.  

When the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Ignace Hamon and Guillaume Hamon agreed to take it.  Guillaume, age 24, and wife Marguerite Saulnier, age 27, crossed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  From the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they remained childless.  Ignace, age 39, wife Anne-Josèphe Bourg, age 41, and daughters Anne-Madeleine, age 12, and Marie-Modeste, age 10, reached New Orleans aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, the following November.  Anne-Josèphe gave birth to another daughter, christened Martine after her godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, in New Orleans soon after they arrived.  Ignace and Anne-Josèphe had no more children in Louisiana.  All three of their daughters married on the upper bayou, none of them to fellow Acadians:  Anne-Madeleine to Urbanne, son of Amable Stelly and Marianne Moniceau of Montréal, in August 1793; Marie-Modeste to Pierre-Victor, son of Pierre Chataignier and Marguerite Mainville of Le Havre, France, in January 1799; and Martine to Jean-Baptiste, son of Louis Léonard and Anne Dardaine of New Orleans, in September 1804.  A petition for a family meeting was filed in Martine's name at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1821; she would have been in her mid-30s that year. 

Hamons settled "late" in greater Acadia, and they came "late" to Louisiana.  Two families, likely not kin to one another, emigrated from France aboard two of the Seven Ships and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Ignace Hamon and his wife had three surviving daughters but no sons, and Guillaume Hamon and his wife had no children, so the Acadian branch of the family, except for its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Hamons of South Louisiana today are descended from French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.34

Hugon

Louis, son of Henri Hugon and Madeleine Lafond, born at Villefagnan, Angouleme, France, in c1695, married Marie, daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Anne Blanchard, at Chignecto in April 1720.  They had six children, two daughters and four sons there:  Marie-Josèphe in c1721; Louis in c1723; Jacques in c1730; Joseph in c1732; Anne-Marie in c1733; and Michel in c1740.  Two of the sons created families of their own.  Older son Jacques married a woman whose name has been lost to history probably at Chignecto.  Younger son Joseph married Marie-Théotiste, called Théotiste, an older aughter, perhaps, of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and Marguerite Thibodeau, probably at Chignecto in the early 1750s.  In 1755, Louis Hugon and Marie Bourgeois and their descendants could still be found at Chignecto, where Louis had settled in the early 1700s.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this small family to the winds.

The first Acadians in Nova Scotia rounded up by the British in the fall of 1755 were the ones at Chignecto.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, area Acadians, pressured by the French, served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with the French at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Hugons were among them.  In the fall of 1755, British forces deported Louis Hugon and his family to South Carolina aboard the English sloop Endeavour.  Louis must have died in South Carolina.  Colonial officials counted his widow Marie Bourgeois, son Jacques, Jacques's daughter Marie-Madeleine, and Jacques's son Joseph, still living in the colony in August 1763.  Jacques's wife was not in the census with them, so she, too, probably had died before the census was taken.  

Jacques's younger brother Joseph and his wife Marie-Théotiste, called Théotiste, Broussard, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto and sought refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac probably with Théotiste's Broussard kin (some historians say she was an older daughter of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil).  Joseph and Théotiste's daughter, Anne-Marie, called Marie, was borned on the Petitcoudiac in February 1756 and baptized there in June 1757.  Joseph may have served in the Acadian resistance with his Broussard in-laws.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, Joseph, if he was still living, and his family either were captured by, or likely surrendered to, British forces in the area and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of war.  Joseph did not survive exile and imprisonment.  When Théotiste and daughter Marie followed her Broussard relatives from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, Théotiste was a widow. 

During the final months of the war, French officials encouraged exiles in the seaboard colonies to resettle in St.-Domingue.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the island would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean basin and assist in the "war of vengeance" to come.  French officials saw the exiles as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's major planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  Jacques Hugon was one of the South Carolina Acadians who, in August 1763, communicated with a high French official in Paris about going to St.-Domingue.  Receiving the go-ahead, Acadians, including Jacques and his family, emigrated to the island in February 1764 to take up land at Môle.  Jacques's son may have died soon after they reached the colony.  The loss of his loved ones, along with the dismal state of the venture, evidently prompted Jacques to quit the place as soon as they could.  This occurred in January 1765 when fellow Acadians from Halifax, led by the Beausoleil Broussards and including Jacques's sister-in-law Théotiste Broussard, came through Cap-Français, east of Môle, on their way to New Orleans.  But at least one member of the family, Jacques's daughter Marie-Madeleine, stayed in St.-Dominique.  She married three times, first to Félix Thibault, then to Francois Regnault, and then to Jean-Baptiste Chaumette, son of Nicolas, bourgeois, and Catherine Bardin of St.-Didier, Sommeil en Barrois, France, at Môle St.-Nicolas in June 1785.  

None of Jacques Hugon's children were with him when he came to Louisiana, so his family either had died or, in the case of his daughter Marie-Madeleine, remained in St.-Domingue.  The place and time of Jacques's death are clues that he hooked up with the Broussard party from Halifax.  He would have reached New Orleans in late February and followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District that April.  Fate did not give Jacques the opportunity to start another family there.  He died on October 8, only a few months after he got there, victim of an epidemic that struck down dozens of his fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.

Théotiste Broussard, perhaps remarried, and daughter Marie followed their kinsmen to Bayou Teche.  Sadly, Théotiste did not witness her brother-in-law's death.  She, too, was a victim of the epidemic; called "spouse of Augustin Guédry," not the widow of Joseph Hugon, she died on July 26 and was buried "at the lower cemetery ... a cause de longeur et des chaleurs (because of the distance and the heat)" the following day.  Dozens of their fellow Acadians escaped the sickness by fleeing to the river, but daughter Marie, age 9, remained in the Attakapas District with her Broussard kin.  At age 16, she married cousin Paul, son of fellow Acadians Michel Trahan and Anne-Euphrosine Vincent, at Attakapas in July 1772.  Their marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée, but the priest who recorded the ceremony noted that Marie and Paul were residents of Attakapas and that they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of affinity in order to marry. 

Hugons settled "late" in Acadia, but two of them, including Jacques, son of Louis, were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Jacques, a widower when he reached the colony, died before he could remarry and father another son.  The only other Acadian Hugon who came to Louisiana was Jacques's niece Marie, so the Acadian branch of the Hugon family did not take root in the Bayou State.  However, Marie bore a number of children for her Trahan husband, so her family's blood lived on in a robust line of that family. 

In early Louisiana church records, the family's name is often spelled Dugon.35

Josset

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Paul Josset was Acadian.  He evidently came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussard party from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, and followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche in April.  He died in late August 1765, a victim of the epidemic that took the lives of dozens of his fellow Teche valley denizens.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Paul's parents' names or his age at the time of his death.  South Louisiana church and civil records give no hint that he had married or fathered any children, so this branch of the Josset family did not take root in the Bayou State.36

Lafaye

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Marie-Marquis Lafaye, daughter of _____ Lafaye and Catherine Comeau, was Acadian on her father's as well as her mother's side.  Marie was counted at Cabahannocer, now St. James Parish, in the Spanish census of April 1766 living with her widowed mother and the family of Acadian Abraham Roy, who may have been a relative.  Since Marie-Marquis was the only member of her family to reach Louisiana, the Lafayes in the Bayou State today are either French Creole or Foreign French, not Acadian.37

La Garenne

 Louis Chênet, Chenais, or Chesnay dit La Garenne, son of Bertrand, sieur de Lothainville and Élisabeth Aubert, born at Québec in August 1678, moved to Port-Royal and married Jeanne, daughter of Barnabé Martin and Jeanne Pelletret, in c1697.  They had two children there:  Marie-Josèphe in c1698, and Jean in c1700.  Jeanne remarried to Gabriel, fils, son of Gabriel Samson and Françoise Durand, at Port-Royal in April 1704, so Louis dit La Garenne had died by then.  In the late 1710s or early 1720s, she followed her second husband to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, where she died in c1728.  Her daughter Marie-Josèphe Chênet dit La Garenne married Charles Charpentier at Port-Toulouse in c1723, and remarried to Jean-François, son of Jean Morel and François Briand, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, in August 1739.  Louis's son Jean took his father's dit, La Garenne, as his family name and married Anne, daughter of Jean Potier and Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in October 1728.  Jean and Anne raised seven or eight children on the island, all born there:  Jean-Baptiste in October 1732; Charles in September 1734; Claire in 1736; Lange in May 1738 but died 10 months later; Joseph in May 1740; Geneviève in 1744; and Élisabeth in 1750.  They also had a daughter named Cécile.  Jean's oldest son Jean-Baptiste married Anne-Hippolythe, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Doiron and Marguerite Michel, either at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in the late 1750s or in France in the early 1760s. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, those on Île St.-Jean, including the Chenet dit La Garennes, living in territory controlled by France, were safe for now.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands and deported them to France. 

Marie-Josèphe Chênet (she did not take her father's dit as her brother Jean had done), now age 60 and twice widowed, and three of her Charpentier sons crossed to St.-Malo aboard the deportation transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, was damaged in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, put in to Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  They survived the crossing and settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, from which Marie-Josèphe, her son Louis, and other members of the family ventured to the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America aboard Le Fort in 1764.  She does not appear on the 1 March 1765 census at Sinnamary in the Cayenne District with her family, so she may have died in the tropical colony by then. 

Meanwhile, Jean Chênet dit La Garenne, his wife Anne Pothier, and their children also crossed to France probably on a British packet boat that carried them first to Portsmouth, England, and then to Cherbourg in Normandy.  There, Jean died, perhaps during a small pox epidemic that struck the Acadians at Cherbourg in late 1759.  Daughter Cécile married Germain, son of fellow Acadians François Landry and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Babin of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in Tres-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in July 1767.  In April 1774, Anne Pothier and daughter Geneviève Chênet, age 30 and still single, were among the Acadians transported from Cherbourg to the naval port of La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay aboard Le Thomas.  Geneviève evidently moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where she married Pierre, fils, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Breau and Marguerite Guédry, at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay in August 1780.  Pierre Breau, fils had been living at Nantes for 10 years at the time of their wedding; he was, in fact, one of the first Acadians to reside in that port city, where hundreds of his fellow Acadians gathered after their adventure in Poitou in the mid-1770s.  Jean and Anne's oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit La Garenne and his wife Anne-Hippolythe Doiron endured life in the mother country as best they could, perhaps at Cherbourg with his widowed mother and sister.  He, too, was living at Nantes in September 1784. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste and Anne-Hippolythe agreed to take it.  Two of sister Cécile's children--Bonne-Marie-Adélaïde and Jean-Jacques-Frédéric Landry, ages 16 and 15 in 1785--followed their paternal grandfather, François Landry, to the Spanish colony, so Cécile and her husband must have died in France.  Other members of Jean-Baptiste's family remained in the mother country, including sister Geneviève Chênet and her Breau husband at Nantes. 

Jean-Baptiste dit La Garenne, now age 55, and wife Anne-Hippolythe Doiron, age 46, crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785, and followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  They brought no children to Louisiana and were too old to have any after they got there.  The Chênet dit La Garenne family of Île St.-Jean, then, did not take root in the Bayou State.38

Lagrèze

According to the Acadian Memorial at St. Martinville, Pierre Lagrèze was Acadian.  He came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in February 1765 with the Broussard party.  Pierre died on the lower Teche, where the Broussards and their kinsmen had settled, only a few months after he arrived in the colony, probably a victim of the epidemic that killed dozens of Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  He must have been a notable member of the Broussard party because he appears on the list of Acadians who exchanged Canadian card money in New Orleans two months after they reached the city.  Moreover, fellow Attakapas Acadian Jean-Baptiste Semer mentions one La Greze, probably Pierre, in an April 1766 letter to his father in France.  The young Acadian wrote:  "I will tell you then my very dear father that I arrived here in the month of February 1765 with 202 Acadian persons, including Joseph Brossard, called Beauplaisir (sic), and all of his family, La Greze, and Catalan, all coming from Halifax and having passed by the Cape [Français]."  Why would young Semer mention La Greze if he was not an important member of the party?  He may have been the Sr. Lagrèze counted among the 1,003 refugees at Restigouche on 24 October 1760, on the eve of the post's surrender.  One suspects he was a French or Canadian officer who chose to follow the Broussards to Louisiana, and that if he was an Acadian, he was an honorary one. 

Evidently Pierre Lagrèze was not married when he came to Louisiana, so his branch of this family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Two brothers with a similar-sounding surname settled on upper Bayou Lafourche during the late antebellum period, but they were Foreign French, not Acadian.  They did, however, marry Acadian LeBlanc sisters, so that branch of the family has Acadian "blood."39

Lamoureaux

In c1693, at Plaisance, Newfoundland, then part of greater Acadia, Jean Lamoureux dit Rochefort, born in Rochefort, France, in c1664, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Abraham Pichot and Madeleine Aubert.  Jean was a fisherman and served as a major of the Plaisance militia before being compelled by the Treaty of Utrecht to move from British-controlled Newfoundland to French-controlled Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, in October 1714.  He and his family remained on Île Royale until the mid-1720s.  According to the many censuses taken at Louisbourg during those years, Marie-Madeleine died before 1719, and Jean, who did not remarry, became a prominent fisherman/merchant with many boats and helpers.  In 1726, he was counted at Baie-de-L'Indienne on the Atlantic coast of Île Royale with one domestic servant, 36 sailors and fishermen in his employ, six chaloups, and a bateau ou goélette en pêche, which in that day was a respectable-sized fishing vessel.  By 1728, he and his children had moved again, this time to Pointe-de-l'Est on Île St.-Jean.  By 1734, they had moved westward to Havre-St.-Pierre on the north side of the island.  Jean dit Rochefort died there in September 1739, age 75.  During their life together, he and Marie-Madeleine had five children, four daughters and a son, all but one of whom survived childhood and created families of their own.  Three of Jean dit Rochefort's daughters married into the Morin dit Langevin, Dutraque, and Baudoin Le Cluzeau families either at Plaisance or on Île Royale.  Son Jean-Baptiste dit Rochefort, born at Plaisance in c1704, married Marie-Claire, daughter of Jean Pothier and Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, at Saint-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in July 1740, soon after his father died.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Claire had at least five children, four sons and a daughter, on Île St.-Jean:  Jean-Baptiste, fils born in May 1741; Louis in October 1742; Judith in c1744; François in c1750; and Martin in November 1753.

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Acadians on Île St.-Jean, including the Lamoureauxs, living in territory controlled by France, were safe for now.  Their respite from British oppression was a short one.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Jean-Baptiste Lamoureaux dit Rochefort died at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in May 1758, age 54, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported his widow Marie-Claire Pothier and their children from Île St.-Jean aboard a transport that sailed first to Portsmouth, England, and then to Cherbourg in Normandy, while most of the other island Acadians were deported to St.-Malo in northeast Brittany.  

Jean-Baptiste dit Rochefort's older sons both married fellow Acadians at Cherbourg.  Jean-Baptiste, fils married Marie, daughter of Pierre Bertrand and Marie-Josèphe Moulaison, in Tres-Ste.-Trinité Parish in October 1763.  Louis, who became a sailor, married Marie, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marguerite Mouton, in Tres-Ste.-Trinité Parish in August 1763.  Louis and Marie's son Jean-Louis was born at Cherbourg in c1765.  Eight years later, in 1773, despite Louis's occupation as a sailor, he and Marie became part of a major settlement venture in the interior of Poitou, where hundreds of exiles from the port cities tried to become productive farmers again on an influential nobleman's land near the city of Châtellerault.  Daughter Marie-Adélaïde was born in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in June 1774.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, Louis and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted again on government handouts and what work they could find.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Louis and Marie agreed to take it.  However, older brother Jean-Baptiste, fils and his family remained in France. 

Louis dit Rochefort, age 44, wife Marie Hébert, age 36, and their children--Jean-Louis, age 20; and Marie-Adélaïde, age 10--booked passage aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, but for some reason they did not take that ship to Spanish Louisiana.  They sailed, instead, on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-December 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they chose to settle at Cabahannocer on the river above the city, in an area that had come to be known as the Acadian Coast.  Neither Jean-Louis nor Marie-Adélaïde seems to have married in the Spanish colony, and Louis dit Rochefort and Marie had no more children there, so the Acadian branch of the Lamoureaux family did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Lamoureauxs of South Louisiana today likely are descended from a Foreign Frenchman, Louis-Ambroise, who came to Louisiana in the 1820s, settled on Bayou Lafourche, and married two Acadian women from the Boudreaux and LeBlanc families.40

Latier

According to an historian of the Acadian exiles in Maryland, Louis Latier, or Lasté, born in c1730, married Anne, daughter of Étienne Trahan and Marie-Françoise Roy and widow of Jean-Baptiste Benoit, at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in c1751, but the marriage likely took place at Port Tobacco, Maryland, in c1761, soon after the death of Anne's first husband.  Louis may very well have been a soldier serving in the French fortress at Louisbourg in the early 1750s before he ended up in Maryland, though most of the military and naval personnel at Louisbourg were deported directly to France in late 1758. 

In July 1763, colonial officials counted Louis, Anne, and their children, including three Benoit "orphans," likely daughters from Anne's first marriage, at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  Considering that the great majority of the Acadians deported to Maryland had come from the Minas Basin, one wonders how a family from Louisbourg got to the Chesapeake colony.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that the Spanish would welcome them in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  The Latiers, following their Trahan and Benoit kin, were among the last to go. 

Louis Latier, wife Anne Trahan, and their children, left Port Tobacco in early January 1769 aboard the English schooner Britannia.  With them were sons Antoine and Paul Lantier, daughter Élisabeth Latier, and Anne's three daughters--Marie-Rose, Marie-Anne, and Marguerite--by her first husband, Jean-Baptiste Benoit.  Unfortunately, either through incompetence or ill luck, the master of the Britannia missed the entrance to the Mississippi River, and the ship ran aground on the Texas coast at Espiritu Santo Bay.  A Spanish patrol "rescued" the passengers and crew, and Spanish authorities held them at the nearby presidio of La Bahía for several months, suspecting them of being spies or smugglers.  After the Spanish released them, the Latiers and their fellow passengers traveled to Natchitoches Post on the Red River, arriving there in late October after a 420-mile overland trek.  After insisting that the Acadians remain at Natchitoches, and the Acadians refusing, Spanish authorities relented and allowed them to settle where they wanted.  In April 1770, the Benoit girls followed their uncle Pierre-Olivier Benoit, who also had sailed on the Britannia with his family, to the Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.   Later in the decade, two of the girls moved on to the Opelousas District.  

The Latiers may also have moved to the Opelousas prairies after living for a time at San Gabriel.  The fate of the Acadian Latiers in Louisiana is difficult to determine.  No member of the family appears in the church records of South Louisiana, at least not under the name Latier.  This family should not be confused with the Lantier or Nantier family, whose pregenitors came to South Louisiana from France and Montréal during the late colonial period and settled at Opelousas.41

Lavergne

Pierre Lavergne, born probably in France, was the servant of the Père du Breslay of Port-Royal in the early 1690s.  Pierre married Anne Bernon there in c1693.  She gave him five children, four daughters and a son:  an unnamed daughter in c1696; Françoise in April 1703; Jacques in April 1706; and twins Cécile and Geneviève in March 1708.  Pierre's wife Anne died at Annapolis Royal in August 1728, age 60.  The date and place of Pierre's death has been lost to history.  Daughter Françoise married into the Petitpas, Lavandier or La Vaudière, and Clergé families and settled at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale probably in the 1720s.  Twins Cécile and Geneviève married brothers:  Cécile to Pierre, son of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier of Chignecto, probably at Annapolis Royal, in c1726; and Geneviève to Pierre's brother Charles at Annapolis Royal in February 1727.  Pierre and Anne's son Jacques married Françoise, daughter of Claude Pitre and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1727.  In the 1730s, members of the family left Annapolis Royal and moved to French-controlled Île St.-Jean.  Cécile and Geneviève and their families were counted at Port-La-Joye on the island in 1734; their husbands' family, in fact, was the first Acadian family to settle on the island.  Cécile died at Port-La-Joye in December 1743, age 35.  Members of the family were still on the Maritime islands in February and August 1752, and other members came there later in the decade. 

Pierre's son Jacques and his wife Françoise Pitre had at least 11 children, four sons and seven daughters, probably at Annapolis Royal:  Joseph in c1728, Pierre le jeune in c1730; Marguerite in c1731; Anne in c1733; Marie-Josèphe in c1734; Jean-Baptiste in c1736; Denis in c1739; Rose in the 1740s; Madeleine in c1744; Cécile in c1749; and Osite in c1755.  Of Jacques's four sons, only the second one, Pierre le jeune, seems to have created a family of his own.  Hs first wife was Anne, daughter of Pierre Lord and Jeanne Doucet, whom he married at Annapolis Royal in October 1753.  After a brief stay at Ste.-Anne, probably Tintamarre at Chignecto, they joined his sisters and their families in the French Maritimes.  Anne gave him a daughter, Marguerite, in c1753, at either Ste.-Anne or on Île St.-Jean. 

Living in territory controlled by France, descendants of Pierre Lavergne and Anne Bernon escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the summer and fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.   

Jacques Lavergne and his family landed at Le Havre in Normandy, where he died in December 1759, age 53, perhaps from the rigors of the crossing.  Son Pierre le jeune, wife Anne Lord, and daughter Marguerite, age 5 in 1758, survived the crossing.  Anne gave Pierre le jeune two more children at Le Havre:  Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre in c1760; and Victoire-Bellarmine in c1763.  Anne died soon afterwards, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  Pierre le jeune remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Daigre and Anne-Marie Boudrot and widow of Eustache Bourg, in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in November 1763; Marguerite's first husband Eustache had died at Plymouth, England, so she had come to France from England in the spring of 1763 and also landed at Le Havre.  Pierre le jeune earned his living as a carpenter in the Norman port.  Marguerite gave him more children there:  Pierre-Benjamin in August 1764 but died at age 18 months in March 1766; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in March 1767; and another Pierre-Benjamin in March 1768--at least six children, three daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1753 and 1768, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1773, Pierre took his family with hundreds of other exiles to the interior of Poitou.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the river port of Nantes and settled at Paimboeuf, the lower port for the city.  Oldest daughter Marguerite, by Pierre le jeune's first wife, married into the Trahan family in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in October 1778.  Second wife Marguerite Daigre died at Paimboeuf in September 1782, age 50.  Pierre le jeune remarried again--his third marriage--to Gillette, daughter Marc Caudan and Perrine LeBiedee of Lanvaudan, diocese of Vannes in southwest Brittany, and widow of Claude Bigot, at Paimboeuf in January 1785.  She gave him no more children.   

Meanwhile, Pierre le jeune's sister, at age 33, Marie-Josèphe married Étienne, 21-year-old son of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marguerite Mouton, in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in January 1767.  They, too, went to Poitou, where a son was born to them at Cenan near Châtellerault.  They also retreated to Nantes in November 1775.  Marie-Josèphe died by August 1779, when Étienne remarried in St.-Nicolas Parish.  Meanwhile, in November 1767, Pierre le jeune and Marie-Josèphe's sister Rose, age 24, married sailor Guillaume, 27-year-old son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Laborde and Marie Prieur of Île St.-Jean and widower of Marie-Rose Daigre, in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre.  Pierre le jeune et al's younger sister Cécile married François Jacquet, a watchmaker, in France, place and date unrecorded. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Pierre Lavergne le jeune grabbed it, but he did not take his third wife with him.  Only a few weeks after they were married, Gillette died at Paimboeuf in late March 1785, age 36, leaving Pierre le jeune a widower once again.  His oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, who would have been age 25 in 1785, if he was still living (he was counted with the family on the convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes in November 1775), did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  Pierre's remaining sisters also chose to stay in France.   

A few weeks after his third wife's death, Pierre Lavergne le jeune and three of his unmarried children--Victoire-Bellarmine, age 22; Marie-Madeleine, age 18; and Pierre-Benjamin, age 17--along with married daughter Marguerite and her Trahan family, boarded Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, at Paimboeuf and sailed to Spanish Louisiana.  Aboard ship, Victoire married Michel, son of Manuel Betancourt and Maria Ignacia ____ of La Gracieuse, Morge, Switzerland, whom she probably had known in France.  The marriage was blessed at New Orleans in September 1785, a few weeks after they reached the colony.  After a brief respite in New Orleans, Pierre and his family followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  Daughter Victoire and her new husband Michel joined her father and younger siblings there.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine married Jean, son of Jean Prosper and Marie Rus of St.-Michel, Carcassone, France, at Baton Rouge in July 1787.    

Pierre le jeune's oldest daughter Marguerite, age 32, also crossed to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont with husband Joseph Trahan, age 35, and two of their children, ages 4 and 2.  Marguerite was pregnant on the crossing and gave birth to son François-Antoine Trahan probably at Baton Rouge in early December; the boy was baptized there late that month.  Joseph died probably at Baton Rouge, and Marguerite remarried to Jean, son of Étienne Raffray and Françoise Soneru of St.-Malo, France, and widower of Marie-Madeleine Landry, probably at Baton Rouge.  They moved north and settled in what became West Feliciana Parish. 

Pierre le jeune's son Pierre-Benjamin also married, but not until he was age 34.  He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste dit Petit Jean Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Dupuis of San Gabriel, at Ascension on the river below Baton Rouge in October 1802.  Although Pierre-Benjamin and Geneviève married on the lower Acadian Coast, they settled near Baton Rouge, close to his family.  Their children, born on the river, included Marguerite, perhaps Marie-Farnalie, in August 1803; Pierre Lamaire in January 1806 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1809; Marie, probably Marie-Adélaïde, in December 1807; Jean-Baptiste in March 1810; and Pierre-Élie in May 1812--at least five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1803 and 1812.  Pierre Benjamin died probably at Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, in February 1819, age 50.  Since he was the only one of his father's sons who followed him to the Spanish colony, all of the Acadian Lavergnes of South Louisiana would have descended from Pierre Benjamin.  His daughters Marie Farnelie and Marie Adélaïde married into the Anselme, Tuttle, and Terrell families, but there is no evidence that any of his three sons created families of their own.  Pierre Benjamin's line of the family, then, except for its blood, probably died with him.  The many Lavergnes of South Louisiana are descendants of French Creoles, French Canadians, or Foreign French, not Acadians.  One Lavergne family in New Orleans claims to have descended from French royalty.  One wonders what became of Pierre-Benjamin's older half-brother Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, who remained at Nantes.  Did he create a family of his own in France and perpetuate his father's line there?42

L'Enfant

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Jean L'Enfant, born in c1758 perhaps in Maryland, was Acadian.  As a 20-year-old orphan, he came to Louisiana in February 1768 with the large party of Acadian refugees from Maryland led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit.  On orders from Spanish Governor Ulloa, the party, including Jean, traveled up the Mississippi to the new community of Fort San Luìs de Natchez far above Baton Rouge and across from a British fort at Natchez.  One wonders what became of Jean after he reached Fort San Luìs.  One suspects that the L'Enfants of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Jean from Maryland.43

Livois

Pierre, son of Jean Livois and Louise Basile, born at Drago or Drayé, Normandy, France, in c1722, came to the French Maritimes in c1740 probably as a young fisherman.  He married Anne, daughter of Denis Boudrot and Agnès Vincent of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in May 1751.  Their daughter Marie-Anne was born there in March 1752, and Anne died soon after, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  (The following August, a French official insisted that Pierre was the widower of Marie Daigre, not Anne Boudrot, when he listed him as a fisherman and farmer at Étang-St.-Pierre on the north shore of the island with daughter Marie-Anne, age 5 months.)  Pierre remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Poirier and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Havre-St.-Pierre on the island's north shore in January 1753.  Marie-Madeleine gave him three more children there:  Marie-Madeleine in November 1753; Pierre, fils in June 1755; and Judith in July 1757.  

Living in territory controlled by France, the Livoiss of Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the summer and fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  In late 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  For Pierre Livois and his family, the crossing was a disaster.  Pierre, in his 40s, and wife Marie-Madeleine Poirier, in her 30s, lost four of their five children on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Marie-Anne, age 6, from his first wife; and his and Marie-Madeleine's children Pierre, fils, age 3; and Judith, age 14 months--all died at sea.  Marie-Madeleine was pregnant during the crossing.  On 5 February 1759, soon after they reached the Breton, son Ambroise-Pierre was born to them, but he died four months later, in June, another victim of the deportation.  Only daughter Marie-Madeleine, age 5, survived the ordeal.  

Pierre and wife Marie-Madeleine settled in the suburb of Paramé northwest of St.-Malo and then moved to nearby St.-Ideuc in 1771, among the relatively few Acadians to live there.  They had five more children in the St.-Malo area:  Pierre-Joseph-Jean at Paramé in March 1760; Perrine-Françoise at nearby La Barbinais in January 1762; twins Françoise-Nicole and Marie-Rose at Paramé in March 1764; and Jeanne-Céleste at La Barbinais in May 1766.  Pierre died at St.-Ideuc in October 1772.  The priest who recorded the burial noted that Pierre was age 55 or 56 when he died.  Soon after his death, Marie-Madeleine Poirier, along with hundreds of other exiles languishing in the port cities, took her family to the interior of Poitou to work the land owned by an influential French nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine Livois married Jean-Grégoire, called Grégoire, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Blanchard and Anne Bourg, in Poitou in c1774.  Their daughter was baptized in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in February 1775, but died a year later and was buried in nearby St.-Jean-Baptiste l'Evangeliste Parish.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Grégoire and Marie-Madeleine, a month after burying their daughter, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  They settled in St.-Similien Parish there and had two more children, a daughter and a son, in July 1776 and March 1778.  Happily, both children survived childhood.  Another son was born at Nantes in early 1785.  Marie-Madeleine's mother Marie-Madeleine Poirier and five of her Livois children--Pierre-Joseph-Jean, Perrine-Françoise, Marie-Rose, Françoise-Nicole, and Jeanne-Céleste--likely followed her older daughter and son-in-law to Nantes. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Grégoire Blanchard, wife Marie-Madeleine Livois, and her sister Marie-Rose, still unmarried, agreed to take it.  Marie-Madeleine Poirier, still very much alive in 1785, chose to remain in France, as did at least two of her other daughters and perhaps her remaining son.  Marie-Madeleine was counted at Nantes, age 84, in 1797.  Daughter Marie-Rose's twin, Françoise-Nicole, married Pierre Testard, perhaps a fellow Acadian, and was counted at Nantes, a widow now, in February 1791.  Her sister Perinne-Françoise married a Frenchman named Melliard or Mesléard and was counted at Nantes in February 1791 and 1794, during the French Revolution.  She was still at Nantes, a widow, in 1820, when she would have been in her late 50s.

Marie-Madeleine Livois, age 31, husband Jean-Grégoire Blanchard, age 37, their three small children, ages 9, 8, and 1, and Marie-Madeleine's sister Marie-Rose, age 21, sailed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie-Madeleine died in Assumption Parish in December 1815, age 62, a widow.  Five months after she had reached the colony, sister Marie-Rose married Charles-Casimir, son of fellow Acadians André Templet and his second wife Marguerite LeBlanc, at Lafourche in February 1786.  Charles-Casimir, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near Paramé, had come to Louisiana from France aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  He and Marie-Rose lived at Baton Rouge perhaps until Charles-Casimir died, and then Marie-Rose returned to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 30, she remarried to Pierre-Olivier, 27-year-old son of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourg and Marie Naquin, at Assumption in October 1794.  Pierre-Olivier, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Marie-Rose died in Assumption Parish in October 1827, age 63, a widow again.  

No male Acadian Livois came to Louisiana, but the blood of this family, in several lines of the Blanchard, Bourg, and Templet families, endured in the Bayou State.  The Livoiss of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.44

Marant

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Joseph Marant, born in c1729, was Acadian.  He married Angélique Dugas in c1755 probably at Chignecto.  Soon after their marriage, the British deported them to South Carolina, where they appeared on a French repatriation list at Charles Town in August 1763 (for some reason he was called Joseph Moreau on the list).  Joseph and Angélique probably went to French St.-Domingue with other Acadians from South Carolina soon after the count was taken and may have been among the hand full of Acadians there who hooked up with the refugees from Halifax who changed ships at Cap-Français in early 1765.  

Joseph, now age 36, and his wife Angélique, age 31, reached New Orleans in 1765 with several orphans in tow, including Angélique's nephew and niece, Joseph Orillion dit Champagne, fils, age 17, and Marguerite Orillion dit Champagne, age 15, whose mother was a Dugas and who had been counted with them in South Carolina in 1763.  From New Orleans, they followed other exiles to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the year before.  By the 1770s, Joseph and his family had moved to Ascension, farther upriver, where he served as a "publican," so he must have been an educated man.  Joseph and Angélique had no children, at least none who survived exile or appear in Louisiana church and civil records, so the Acadian branch of the Marant family did not take root in the Bayou State.45

Mius d'Entremont

The Mius d'Entremonts, descendants of French nobles from Savoy and Normandy, were among the earliest and most distinguished families in French Acadia.  Philippe Mius d'Entremont of Cherbourg, Normandy, came to Acadia in 1651 as a lieutenant of erstwhile governor Charles La Tour, a childhood friend.  Philippe was 50, a lieutenant-major, married to Madeleine Hélie, and father of a daughter when he was named La Tour's adjutant.  In 1653, during his second tenure as governor of the colony, La Tour awarded his trusty lieutenant with the seigneurie of Pobomcoup, now Pubnico, near Cap-Sable, where Philippe and Madeleine settled for most of their time in Acadia; Philippe thus became the sieur d'Entremont, baron de Pobomcoup, lieutenant-major et commandant des troupes.  His barony ran from Cap-Nèigre, northeast of Cap-Sable, around to Cap-Fourchu near present-day Yarmouth.  He built his feudal house near the entrance to the harbor at Pobomcoup.  Biographer Clément Cormier asserts:  "D'Entremont played an important part in the colony's history both because of what he did as an administrator and because he was one of the rare Acadian seigneurs to concern himself with cultivation and with clearing land; he attracted to his estate 'several indentured workers and a few families from Port-Royal ... and this seigneury eventually formed a small centre of population.'"  In 1670, upon the restoration of the colony to France, Philippe, at age 69,  became the King's attorney in Acadia.  He served in this capacity until 1688, when old age and infirmity (he was 87!) compelled him to relinquish the post.  In his final days, he lived for a time at Minas with his older daughter and died in c1700 at age 99, "with all his teeth," either at Minas or Port-Royal.  He and his wife Madeleine had four more children in Acadia.  Their older daughter Marguerite married Pierre Melanson dit LaVerdure, fils.  Their three sons also married, the two oldest--Jacques de Pobomcoup and Abraham de Pleinmarais--to daughters of Charles La Tour, and the youngest, Philippe d'Azy, to two Mi'kmaq women, the second named Marie. 

In 1755, descendants of Philippe Mius d'Entremont could be found at Annapolis Royal, on Île St.-Jean, and in France, but they were especially plentiful in the family's barony at Pobomcoup.  The Great Upheaval scattered the family even farther.  While the British were gathering up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, Marguerite Mius d'Azy of Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, and her new husband, Jean Delâge dit Langlois, left the island for Québec, where Marguerite died in early October 1755, age 36, among the first Acadian refugees to go there.  

A member of the family still at Annapolis Royal in 1755, Philippe Mius d'Azy's granddaughter Marie-Josèphe, with her husband Jean-Baptiste Raymond, was deported to North Carolina aboard the Pembroke in December.  Soon after the ship left Goat Island in the lower Annapolis River, a storm in the lower Bay of Fundy separated the Pembroke from the other transports filled with Annapolis-valley Acadians.  The exiles aboard the ship, led by Charles Belliveau, a pilot, and including Jean-Baptiste Raymond, saw their opportunity.  They overwhelmed the officers and crew of the Pembroke, who numbered only eight, seized the vessel, sailed it to Baie Ste.-Marie on the western shore of Nova Scotia, hid there for nearly a month, and then, in January 1756, sailed across the Bay of Fundy to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean.  There, in early February, they were discovered by a boatload of British soldiers and sailors disguised as French troops.  Raymond and the others managed to drive off the British force, burn the ship, and make their way with the ship's officers and crew to the Rivière St.-Jean settlement of Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas, today's Fredericton, New Brunswick, where they spent the rest of the winter.  When food ran short at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas in the summer of 1756, Jean-Baptiste took his family via the St.-Jean portage to the St. Lawrence valley.  Marie-Josèphe died in a smallpox epidemic at Québec in December 1757, two weeks before her husband died.  

Most of the Mius d'Azys at Annapolis Royal remained in British hands.  Philippe Mius d'Azy's grandson Joseph and his wife Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Préjean and Andrée Savoie, according to Bona Arsenault, ended up at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in late 1755.  Three of Joseph's younger brothers--Charles dit Charles-Amand and his wife Marie-Marthe, daughter of Antoine Hébert and Jeanne Corporon; François and his wife Jeanne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Duon and Agnès Hébert; and Jean-Baptiste and his wife Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Surette and Jeanne Pellerin--along with their families, were deported to Massachusetts.  In October 1761, according to Arsenault, Joseph remarried to widow Marie Vincent at Philadelphia. 

Members of the family still living on the family's seigneurie at Pobomcoup and Cap-Sable escaped the British roundups in the rest of Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755.  However, in the spring of 1756, the British swooped down on Cap-Sable and Pobomcoup and sent two English sloops, the Mary and the Vulture, with approximately 170 Acadians from the Cap-Sable area to New York and Massachusetts.  One of these Cap-Sable deportees was Jacques Mius d'Entremont, fils, his wife Marguerite, daughter of François Amireau and Marie Pitre, and some of their children.  They sailed aboard the Vulture to Boston.  Jacques, fils died at Walpole, Massachusetts, in July 1759, age 80, and was buried at nearby Roxbury.  Jacques, fils's daughter Anne married Abel, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Duon and Agnès Hébert of Annapolis Royal, at Marblehead, Massachusetts, in 1756.  Jacques, fils's son Joseph married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Belliveau and Agnès Gaudet, in Massachusetts in 1763.  

Other Mius d'Entremonts of Pobomcoup, including children of the captured Jacques, fils, escaped the 1756 round up, but their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, 400 British soldiers disembarked at Cap-Sable in late September to search for Acadians still in the area.  Two sailboats manned by British troops sailed along the shore above and below the the cape "to prevent the vermin from escaping in canoes," one British officer commented.  This time luck ran out for the Mius d'Entremonts of Pobomcoup.  The British burned all of the houses and other buildings in the area to deny the habitants shelter and sustenance.  In late October, the British embarked 68 Acadians they had captured at Cap-Sable, plus their priest, on the transport Alexander II.  This probably included Mius d'Entremonts.  Several Acadian families escaped the ruthless rangers sent out to catch them but, after a hard winter in the woods, surrendered to British authorities the following June and were held as prisoners at Georges Island, Halifax.  Meanwhile, the Alexander II sailed from Cap-Sable to Halifax, which it reached the first week of November.  From Halifax, in December 1758, the British sent the Cap-Sable Acadians to France with the Acadians they were deporting from the Maritime islands.  The Mius d'Entremonts went to Cherbourg in Normandy.   

Among the family members sent to France in late 1758 were three daughters and a son of Joseph Mius d'Azy and Marie Amireau dit Tourangeau of Pobomcoup who had resettled on Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s and chose to remain there.  Living in territory controlled by France, the Mius d'Azys of Île St.-Jean escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755, but, like their kinmen at Cap-Sable, the Great Upheaval soon caught up to them.  After the fall of Louisbourg, the redcoats rounded up most of the Acadian habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  The crossing devastated the family.  Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Azy, and her husband Jean-Baptiste Henry; sister Geneviève and her husband François Guérin; and sister Rosalie and her husband Éloi Lejeune were deported aboard the deporation transport Duke William, which left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in a 12-ship convoy, destined for St.-Malo.  All of them, along with their children, and nearly all of their fellow passengers, perished in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England.  Cousin Charles-Benjamin Mius d'Azy, age 30, and wife Marie-Josèphe Guédry, age 36, of Pointe-à-la-Jeunnesse, Île Royale, crossed with five of their children--Marie-Josèphe, age 9; Anastasie, age 7; Jean-Baptiste, age 6; Véronique, age 4; and Firmin, age 2--on one of the five transports which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the mid-December storm that sunk the Duke William and two other transports, and arrived at St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Charles-Benjamin and all five of his children died at sea.  Widow Marie-Josèphe remarried--her third marriage--to a LeBlanc widower at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1763 and followed him to Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany, in late 1765, where she died in August 1767, age 47.  Meanwhile, Marie-Madeleine Mius d'Entremont, widow of Jean Lafitte of Île Royale, also was deported to France in 1758.  She ended up in the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay, where she died in August 1760, age 70.  

That the Cap-Sable Mius d'Entremonts were at Cherbourg by late January 1759 is attested to by the baptism of Abraham, younger son of Jacques Mius d'Entremont III and Marguerite Landry of Pobomcoup, in Tres-St.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, on 22 January 1759; Abraham's baptismal record states that he was born "aux quatre Sables," that is, at Cap-Sable, on 8 December 1758, so this gives an idea of when the family was transported from Nova Scotia to France.  The following year, 1760, was especially tragic for the Cap-Sable Mius d'Entremonts at Cherbourg:  Marie-Jeanne-Charlotte, age 3 weeks, daughter of Simon Mius d'Entremont and his first wife Marie Amireau, and Simon, age 5, perhaps another child of Simon and Marie, died in February.  Claire Mius d'Entremont, wife of Charles-Paul Hébert, age 50; and Joseph, age 72, son of Jacques Mius d'Entremont, père, died in March.  Charles, age 33, a bachelor, son of Joseph Mius d'Entremont; Anne Mius d'Entremont, age 30; and Marguerite, age 45, daughter of Charles Mius d'Entremont, died in May.  Two more bachelor sons of Joseph--Jean, age 27, and Abraham, age 38--died in June.  Jacques Mius d'Entremont III also died at Cherbourg in 1760.  The rigors of deportation probably contributed to so many deaths in the family that year.  Also, French ports were hotbeds of ship-borne epidemics such as smallpox and plague.  Nevertheless, there were also moments for the family to celebrate, such as the baptism of young Abraham Mius d'Entremont in January 1759.  But tragedy was always near.  Cécile, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Entremont, died at Cherbourg in c1762, in her late 30s.  Still, there were marriages to celebrate.  Simon, son of Joseph Mius d'Entremont and Cécile Boudrot and widower of Marie Amireau, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Gabriel Moulaison and Marie Aubois of Pobomcoup and widow of François Viger, in September 1763.  Joseph le jeune, son of Charles Mius d'Entremont and Marguerite Landry, married cousin Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Landry and Marie Belliveau, in February 1764, soon after Joseph le jeune's parents died at Cherbourg.  His son Joseph-David was born that December; and Pierre-Marin was born posthumously in August 1766; Joseph le jeune had died at Cherbourg in March, only two years after his marriage.  Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Entremont and Marie-Josèphe Moulaison, married Jean, fils, son of fellow Acadians Jean Granger and Madeleine Melanson of Annapolis Royal, at Cherbourg in May 1764.  That same month, Madeleine, daughter of Charles and Joseph le jeune's sister, married Basile, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudrot and another Madeleine Melanson of Annapolis Royal, but Madeleine, the bride, died in December 1770, age 40.  Pierre, brother of Joseph le jeune and Madeleine, joined his siblings in death at Cherbourg in July 1778, at age 47.  He never married.  

Not all of the Muis d'Entremonts remained at Cherbourg.  By the early 1780s, Jacques IV, now in his 20s, had moved down the coast to St.-Malo in northwest Brittany, where he married Frenchwoman Marie Herve of nearby St.-Brieuc, widow of Louis Landromon dit Langlinais of that city.  Jacques IV signed as a witness to a marriage in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1784, about the time the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Jacques IV, wife Marie, and his widowed mother, Marguerite Landry, were the only members of his extended family who agreed to take it, but Jacques IV, aware of his aristocratic roots, put a price on his emigration to the Spanish colony.  Before he and his family set sail for Louisiana in August 1785, the Spanish made him a captain in recognition of the noble status of his family in old Acadia.  

Meanwhile, the Mius d'Entremonts and Mius d'Azys who had been exiled to Massachusetts and Pennsylvania waited patiently for the war with Britain to end.  When it did, in early 1763, they were able to leave the British colonies, where they had never felt welcome.  Most of the Acadians in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania repatriated to Canada.  However, Jacques Muis d'Entremont, fils's children and grandchildren returned to Pobomcoup.  They no longer held the seigneurie there--that ended with their exile--but at least they were home again.  One of Jacques, fils's younger sons, Bénoni, died at Pobomcoup, now Pubnico, Nova Scotia, in February 1841, in his late 90s.  

Joseph Mius d'Azy and his family left Philadelphia for Massachusetts in 1763 to join his younger brothers and his cousins there.  One of Joseph's daughters, Marie-Cécile, married Frenchman Pierre Rinard of Granville, Normandy, in Massachusetts in c1765.  By 1767, the Mius d'Azys also had returned to Cap-Sable--to Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau-de-l'Anguille, Pointe-à-Rocco, Pointe-des-Ben, and Bas-de-Tousket, now Tusket, near Pobomcoup.  In the 1780s, one of Charles Mius d'Azy's sons, Barthélemy, and his wife Madeleine Doiron moved to Arichat on Île Madame, off the southern coast of Cape Breton Island, formerly French Île Royale.  In the 1790s, they moved on to Prince Edward Island, formerly French Île St.-Jean.  But most of the Mius D'Entremonts and Mius d'Azys remained in the Cap-Sable area.  

Only one descendant of Philippe Mius d'Entremont, baron de Pobomcoup, found refuge in Louisiana.  Philippe's great-grandson, Jacques IV, son of  Jacques Mius d'Entremont III and Marguerite Landry, came to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France, that reached New Orleans from St.-Malo in early December 1785.  The recently appointed captain was only age 29 when he made the crossing.  With him was his widowed mother, age unrecorded; wife Marie Hervé, age 30; son Jacques-Ferdinand, age 1; newborn daughter Marie-Martine, born probably aboard ship; and three Langlinais stepchildren, ages 11, 9, and 7.  Infant Martine, named after Martin Navarro, Spanish intendente of Louisiana, her honorary godfather, was baptized at New Orleans soon after the family reached the city.  

From New Orleans, Jacques IV took his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where his wife soon died.  He does not seem to have remarried.  Despite the captaincy given to him by the Spanish, censuses taken on upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1780s and early 1790s reveal a man who was not much more affluent than fellow Acadians from humbler families.  In January 1788, Jacques IV, now a widower, was living on the upper bayou with daughter Martine and two Langlinais stepchildren.  (The census taker said nothing about son Jacques-Ferdinand, who would have been age 3 or 4 at the time, so the boy evidently had died by then.)  Jacques IV's humble habitation along the bayou was 8 arpents wide (the typical Acadian land grant was 6 arpents frontage), he owned a single slave, one horned cow, and one pig.  Three years later, still living with his daughter and two Langlinais stepchildren, he could boast 10 arpents of frontage on the bayou, but he still owned only a single slave and one cow.  His swine herd, however, had increased to 10--still a much more humble "seigneurie" than that of his distinguished ancestor.

Jacques Mius d'Entremont IV's daughter Martine survived childhood at Lafourche, but she did not remain there.  After she came of age, she crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and married Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Athanase Trahan and Madeleine Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in July 1802.  They settled on the prairie at La Grosse Île du Vermilion.  She gave him a daughter on the Vermilion in June 1804 and a son in August 1806.  Perhaps a victim of the rigors of childbirth, Martine died in St. Martin Parish in October 1807, age 23.  As far as Louisiana church and civil records reveal, this proud, old family from Acadia, then, except through a line of the Trahan family, did not endure in the Bayou State beyond the second generation.46

Neveu

According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, Laurent, son of Jean Neveu and Catherine Cayer of Santon, La Rochelle, France, a widower, emigrated to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, in the early 1700s.  In November 1721, Laurent married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Robin of St.-Jean, La Rochelle, at Port-La-Joye on the island.  Laurent and Jeanne settled at Tracadie on the island's north shore.  One wonders why no one in this family was counted on Île St.-Jean in August 1752. 

After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands and deported them to France.  Descendants of Laurent Neveu of Île St.-Jean may have been among these hapless Acadians.  Vincent, fils, son of Vincent Neveu and Marie Bernard, born probably in France in c1765 and perhaps a descendant of Laurent Neveu, was the only member of the family to emigrate to Louisiana with the Acadians from France.  He crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November 1785. 

Soon after his arrival, Vincent, fils married Cécile, daughter of Acadians Étienne Hébert and his first wife Marie Lavergne, at New Orleans; she also had crossed on L'Amitié.  Vincent and Cécile followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Spanish officials counted them in January 1788 and January 1791.  In both Valenzuela District censuses, the couple had no children.  According to Ascension-area church records, no Neveu children were born between 1791, when Cécile Hébert was still in her early 20s, and 1819, when she would have been in her early 50s, so Vincent and Cécile may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Non-Acadian Neveuxs, Neveaus, Nevauts, and Neveus also lived in Louisiana and created at least one family line there.  The first of the family, a Canadienne from Montréal, appeared in the late 1720s, when she married a first cousin at New Orleans.  Not until the antebellum period do other members of the family appear in South Louisiana--west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  The most vigorous line, one that settled on upper Bayou Teche in St. Martin Parish before moving to Vermilionville in nearby Lafayette Parish, came from Rouen and probably was not related to Vincent Neveu of France.  Other non-Acadian Neveus lived in St. Landry and St. Martin parishes.  Afro-Creole Neveus--free persons of color--also lived in St. Martin Parish during the antebellum period.  The Neveus of South Louisiana today, then, are descendants of Foreign French or Afro Creoles, not Acadians.47

Noël

Pierre Noël, born "in Acadie" in c1725, lived at Grand-Pré in the Minas Basin.  One wonders who his parents may have been and when the first of his family came to the colony.  In the late summer of 1755, Pierre Noël and dozens of his fellow Acadians were rounded up by New-English forces under Lieutenant-Colonel John Winslow and held in the church at Grand-Pré.  Winslow's list calls Pierre a Noails and says he had a daughter, so he must have been married, or perhaps he was a 30-year-old widower by then; Winslow's list does not name or even count the settlers' wives.  The list also reveals that Pierre owned no "bullocks," no "cowes," and no hogs, only five sheep. 

Pierre, perhaps with his daughter, ended up on a British transport bound for Virginia, which they reached with hundreds of other Minas Acadians that autumn.  The following spring, Virginia authorities sent them and the other exiles from Minas on to England.  Pierre remarried to Marie-Madeleine Barbe, perhaps a fellow Acadian, soon after he reached England.  Two children were born to them in one of the coastal compounds where they were kept:  Marie-Madeleine in c1757; and Jean-Baptiste in May 1759. 

In May 1763, Pierre, now age 38, Marie-Madeleine, age 25, and their two children were repatriated from England to St.-Malo, France, aboard the ship Ambition.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where two more daughters were born to them:  Marie-Marguerite in February 1764; and Perrine-Rosalie posthumously in March 1766.  Pierre died at St.-Servan in late August 1765, "at age about 40 years."  Daughter Perrine-Rosalie died at St.-Servan in May 1766, only seven weeks after her birth.  In the early 1770s, Marie-Madeleine Barbe, still an unmarried widow, took her three surviving Noël children to the interior of Poitou as part of the large settlement venture there.  In late 1775, after two years of effort, they, along with dozens of other Poitou Acadians, retreated down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they lived on government hand outs and on what work they could find.  Marie-Madeleine Barbe died at Chantenay near Nantes in February 1779, age 41.  Her orphaned children--Marie-Madeleine, Jean-Baptiste, and Marie-Marguerite Noël--were ages 22, 20, and 15 at the time of her death.  Interestingly, the first of the Noël daughters to marry was not the older Marie-Madeleine but the much younger Marie-Marguerite.  At age 20, she married 56-year-old Frenchman Guillaume-Jean Roquemont of St.-Vivien, Rouen, probably at Chantenay in c1784.  Guillaume-Jean died either later that year or in 1785.  They probably had no children.  

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  The Noël sisters, one a young widow, the other still unmarried, agreed to take it.  Brother Jean-Baptiste, however, now in his mid-20s, chose to remain in France.  "A mariner by profession," he married Luce, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger and Anne Poirier, probably at Nantes.  Luce had been born at Cherbourg in Normandy in March 1768, so she was nine years younger than Jean-Baptiste.   Their son Pierre was born at Nantes in April 1789, and a second Pierre in October 1790.  In 1794, during the French Revolution, Jean-Baptiste, his wife, and two sons appeared on a list of Acadians and Canadians at Nantes who, according to "the law of 25 February 1791," were entitled to a subsidy from the Revolutionary government.  One hopes they survived the Reign of Terror with their heads intact. 

The only Acadians Noëls who emigrated to Spanish Louisiana--Marie-Madeleine Noël, age 28, and younger sister Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, age 21, a young widow--crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Marguerite, age 22, remarried to Charles, fils, 39-year-old son of fellow Acadians Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis of Grand-Pré, in January 1786.  Charles, a native of Minas, also had gone to France from England and crossed from Nantes aboard La Bergère, so they may known one another in the mother country.  Despite his age, this was his first marriage.  Spanish officials counted them on the upper bayou in January 1788.  They had no children at the time.  Marguerite's older sister Marie-Madeleine was the only other person counted in their household.  By January 1791, Marguerite had given Charles a daughter.  She gave him more children before he died at Ascension in January 1805, in his late 50s, leaving Marguerite a widow again.  She did not remarry.  She died in Assumption Parish in April 1840.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that she died "at age 70 a widow."  She was 76. 

Marie-Madeleine Noël did not remain with her younger sister and brother-in-law on the upper Lafourche.  In April 1788, when she was age 31, she married Blaise, son of fellow Acadians Michel Rivet and his first wife Anne Landry, at San Gabriel on the river.  Blaise, a native of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, had come to Louisiana from Maryland as a young bachelor in 1768.  Although he was age 41 at the time of their wedding, this also was his first marriage.  Blaise died at San Gabriel in September 1797, age 50, but not before Marie-Madeleine gave him two sons and at least two daughters there.  Marie-Madeleine, at age 48, remarried to Frenchman Jean Baptiste, son of Antoine Lagarde and Marguerite Alrig of Languedoc, at St. Gabriel in July 1805.  She probably did not give him any children.  She died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in March 1838, age 81.  One of her Rivet sons by her first husband settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but her other Rivet son remained on the river. 

Noëls settled "late" in Acadia, and, compared to most other Acadian families, they came "late" to Louisiana.  The two sisters' only remaining sibling, brother Jean-Baptiste, a sailor, although married to a fellow Acadian, remained in France.  Both sisters helped create families of their own in the Spanish colony, and both of them lived to ripe old ages.  Since the sisters were the only members of their family to emigrate to Louisiana, no Acadian Noël family lines emerged in the Bayou State.  The blood of the family survived, however, in several lines of the Rivet and Aucoin families. 

Noël is a fairly common surname in France, so it is no surprise that during the late colonial and antebellum periods non-Acadian members of the family also lived in Louisiana.  Most of them probably were Foreign Frenchmen who came to the Bayou State after Jefferson's Purchase.  Some were Afro Creoles whose surname came from an ancestor's given name, "Noël." The Noëls of South Louisiana, then, are descendants of French Creoles, Foreign French, or Afro Creoles, not Acadians.48

Olivier

Pierre Olivier, a tailor, born in c1692 in the Parish of St.-Mederic, Paris, came to Acadia by 1718, the year he married Françoise, daughter of Jacques Bonnevie and Françoise Mius d'Azy, at Annapolis Royal.  They had eight children, including four daughters who married into the Caissie, Dubois, and Haché dit Gallant families.  Three of their sons, all born at Annapolis Royal, also created families of their own.  Oldest son Paul, born in c1727, settled first at Chignecto and then at Pigiguit in the Minas Basin before moving on to Île St.-Jean, where he married Marguerite, daughter of François Poirier and Marie Haché dit Gallant, in September 1749.  Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in c1728, also settled at Chignecto before moving on to Île St.-Jean.  He married twice, first to Susanne Pitre in c1749 and then to Marie Haché dit Gallant during exile.  Youngest son Joseph, born in c1730, settled at Chignecto, where he married Marguerite, daughter of Paul Martin dit Barnabé and Marguerite Cyr, in c1752.  They remained there.  In 1755, descendants of Pierre Olivier the tailor could be found at Chignecto and on Île St.-Jean.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered the family even farther. 

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

In the fall of 1755, the British deported Joseph Olivier and his wife Marguerite Martin dit Barnabé to South Carolina.  In the spring of 1756, they evidently were not among the Acadians who took advantage of the South Carolina governor's permission to return to greater Acadia by boat.  In August 1763, six months after the war had ended, Joseph and his family appeared on a list of Acadians in South Carolina "who desire to withdraw from under the standard of their king ...."  Joseph was able to sign the repatriation list, indicating that he was literate.  Soon afterwards, he and his family, along with hundreds of other exiles in the seaboard colonies, emigrated to French St.-Domingue.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking empire.  A new naval base at Môle-St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean Basin and assist in the "war of revenge" to come.  Exiles lured to St.-Domingue could serve as a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the island's wealthy planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  Joseph Olivier and his family emigrated to St.-Domingue in late 1763 or 1764, but they found no farmland at the naval base, only misery and death.  Evidently Joseph and Marguerite settled for a time at Cap-Français on the coast east of Môle, where their son Jean-Baptiste was born perhaps in late 1763, soon after their arrival, though he may have been born in South Carolina on the eve of their leaving for the sugar colony.  Fed up with life in St.-Domingue, Joseph and Marguerite looked for an opportunity to leave the tropical colony.  Their opportunity came in 1765 or 1766, when exiles from Halifax and Maryland came through Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans.  The Oliviers were among the relatively few Acadians who emigrated to Louisiana directly from the French Antilles. 

Living in territory controlled by France, Joseph's older brothers Paul and Jean-Baptiste, sister Anne, and their families, still on Île St.-Jean, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the island and transported them to France.  Sister Anne and her husband Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant, fils, landed at the northern fishing center of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie.  Her brothers may have landed there, too.  They then moved on to St.-Malo in northeast Brittany and settled in the suburb of St-Servan-sur-Mer, where Anne's husband Jean-Baptiste died in February 1767.  Anne did not remarry, but brother Jean-Baptiste, a 39-year-old widower, did remarry, to Marie-Josèphe, 40-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant, père and Marie Gentil of Île St.-Jean, at St.-Servan in January 1767.  Jean-Baptiste's wife Marie-Josèphe was sister Anne's dead husband's sister.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, hundreds of them, including Anne Olivier and members of the Haché family agreed to take it, but her brothers, if they were still in France in 1785, chose to remain. 

Meanwhile, younger brother Joseph, his wife Marguerite Martin dit Barnabé, and young son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, emigrated to Louisiana from French St.-Domingue by July 1767, when Spanish officials recorded them at New Orleans.  Judging by the date, they likely had hooked up with refugees from Maryland who came through Cap-Français.  Unlike the great majority of his fellow Acadian exiles, Joseph remained at New Orleans:  son Marc was born in the city in February 1768; and daughter Rosalie in April 1771.  Only by settling among other Acadians on the river, along Bayou Lafourche, or out on the western prairies could Joseph's descendants have had a chance to maintain their Acadian identity. 

Two decades after Joseph and his family reached the colony, his older sister Anne, now a widow; daughter Anne-Marie Haché, wife of Jean-Charles Benoit, and their four children, as well as grand-niece Madeleine-Appoline Haché crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  Anne Olivier followed her daughter and son-in-law, who was sailor, to the largely-Isleño community of San Bernardo, south of the city, instead of to a predominantly Acadian settlement west of New Orleans.  Meanwhile, brother Joseph's remaining son, Jean-Baptiste le jeune, married Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde, daughter of Pierre Mioton of Lyon and Jeanne L'Éclaire of La Rochelle, France, at New Orleans in June 1785.  Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde was a native of the city.  Their children, born there, included Joseph le jeune in July 1787; Eulalie in October 1789 but died at age 3 in September 1792; Guillaume, also called Étienne, in August 1791 but died at age 1 in September 1792, nine days before his sister Eulalie died (were they victims of an epidemic?); Émilie-Marie born in October 1793; Marie Céleste in January 1796; Louise in January 1798; Arsène-Augustine February 1800; ...  There they remained. 

Most of the many Oliviers of South Louisiana, then, are descended from French Creoles and Foreign French, not Acadian exiles who remained at New Orleans and may have lost their Acadian identity in a generation or two.49

Patry

Guillaume, son of Louis Patry and Mathurine Mahez of St.-Coulomb near St.-Malo, France, born at St.-Brieuc down the Breton coast in c1714, came to the French Maritimes in c1732 probably as a young fisherman.  He married Françoise, daughter of Gabriel Chiasson and Marie Savoie and widow of Guillaume Gallet, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in October 1741.  Guillaume and Françoise had four children there:  Georges in July 1742; Angélique in June 1744; and twins Paul and Françoise in c1747.  A French official, who called him a Patris, counted Guillaume, Françoise, and six children, two of them from Françoise's first marriage, and four of their own, at Havre-St.-Pierre in August 1752.  The French official noted that Guillaume "has been in the country 20 years." 

Living in territory controlled by France, Guillaume Patry and his family escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia during the fall of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Guillaume, age 53, Françoise, age 54, and three of their children crossed on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758, survivied a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Amazingly, all of Guillaume's family survived the crossing that killed hundreds of their fellow exiles.  They settled at La Gouesnière in the countryside east of St.-Malo, just south of Guillaume's family's home base at St.-Coulomb, from 1759-61, and then in the nearby suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer until 1765.  In March 1765, the war now over, Guillaume took his family to Miquelon, a French-conrolled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, aboard Le Duc de Choiseul, but they did not remain on the island.  In 1767, French authorities, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, coaxed the fisher/habitants to resettle in France.  The Patrys landed at La Rochelle.  Most of the islanders returned to Miquelon the following year, but Guillaume and his family remained at La Rochelle before returning to St.-Malo in March 1768.  Guillaume's wife Françoise may have died by then.  He remarried to a Frenchwoman, Jeanne, daughter of Mathurin Joucan and Charlotte Rouault of Bauger-Morvan near Dol, in the countryside southeast of St.-Malo, widow of Pierre Beaugendre, at St.-Servan in October 1769.  They settled at St.-Malo.  She gave him no more children.  Guillaume was still alive in November 1770, when he served as godfather to son Paul's oldest daughter at St.-Servan.  Guillaume's family was reported as still residing at St.-Malo in 1772. 

Guillaume's younger son Paul was still a child when his family settled at La Gouesnière and St.-Servan-sur-Mer and in his teens and early 20s when he accompanied them to Île Miquelon and back.  At age 23, he married Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Christophe Pothier and Anne Boudrot, at St.-Servan in January 1770.  They had at least three children there:  Jeanne-Charlotte-Rosalie in November 1770; Paul-Charles in December 1771 but died the following September; and Anne-Perrine in August 1773.  Either on the eve of, or soon after, Anne-Perrine's birth, Paul took his family to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture.  After two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitoiu Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  Paul and his family settled at nearby Chantenay.  They had another daughter there in June 1777.  Paul died in his early or mid-30s probably at Chantenay before November 1783, when his wife remarried there to Pierre, fils, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Hébert and Marie Bernard of Chignecto. 

One wonders what happened to Paul's older siblings, Georges and Angélique, after the family reached St.-Malo in 1759.  Angélique served as godmother to Barthélemy, fils, twin son of Barthélemy Cosset and his third wife Françoise Gallais, at Bonnaban near St.-Malo in the spring of 1762, so she survived not only the crossing, but also its rigors.  Brother Paul served as godfather to Barthélemy, fils's twin sister, Louise-Geneviève.  The twins' mother, Françoise Gallais or Gallet, was Angélique and Paul's half-sister by their mother's first marriage.  Paul, himself, was a twin, of his sister Françoise, who died before the family was deported to St.-Malo. 

Soon after Paul Patry's death at Chantenay in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  His widow Charlotte Pothier and her second husband Pierre Hébert, fils agreed to take it.  Her Patry in-laws, if they were still alive, chose to remain in France.  Daughters Jeanne-Charlotte-Rosalie and Marie-Modeste Patry, who would have been 14 and 8 in 1785, also did not go to Louisiana, so, like their father, they probably had died at Chantenay.  However, daughter Anne-Perrine, age 12 when they crossed, did accompany her mother and stepfather, along with an infant half-brother, to the distant colony. 

Anne-Perrine Patry, called Anne Hébert on the passenger list of Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships from France, emigrated to Louisiana with her relatives in the summer of 1785.  Their ship reached New Orleans in late August.  After a few weeks in the city recuperating from the crossing, the family did not follow their fellow passengers to the Baton Rouge area but chose to settle in one of the prairie districts west of the Atchafalaya Basin. 

Anne-Perrine married Pierre-Grégoire, son of fellow Acadians Mathurin Richard and Élisabeth Landry of Grand Coteau, at Opelousas in October 1794.  Pierre-Grégoire was a native of San Gabriel on the river, his family having come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  He and Anne-Perrine settled at Beaubassin near Carencro on upper Bayou Vermilion at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Anne Perrine died suddenly at Beaubassin in August 1817, age 44.  Her husband did not remarry.  Since she was the only member of her family to emigrate to Louisiana, the Acadian branch of the Patry family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood, however, did survive in a line of the Richard family.50

Pellerin

François Pellerin, born in c1636, came to Acadia from Québec by 1665, the year he married Andrée, daughter of Pierre Martin and Catherine Vigneau, at Port-Royal.  François died at Port-Royal in c1678, in his early 40s.  After his death, his widow Andrée moved to Chignecto, where she remarried to Pierre Mercier dit Caudebec.  Before his death, Andrée had given François seven children, six daughters and a son.  Five of their daughters married into the Trahan, Thériot, Hébert, Godin, Caissie, and Moyen families.  François and Andrée's seventh child, son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1678, the year his father died, moved to Canada in the early 1700s with his mother and stepfather.  Pierre married Marie-Anne, daughter of Canadians Jacques Bélanger and Élisabeth Thibault, at St.-Pierre-du-Sud below Québec City in June 1722 and died there in c1731, in his early 50s.  At least two of François and Andrée's daughters also moved to Canada.  Catherine dit Caudebec married Pierre, son of Laurent dit Châtillon dit Beauséjour Godin and Anne Guérin, probably in Canada in c1697 and died at St.-François-du-Sud, today's Montmagny, below Québec City, in May 1758.  The priest who recorded her burial said she died at age 85.  Pierre's daughter Jeanne married first to Roger, son of Guillaume Caissie and Marie-Françoise Poirier, probably at Chignecto in c1703, and then to Jacques Moyen, probably a Canadian, in c1711.  Jeanne died at St.-Pierre-du-Sud in April 1744, in her late 60s.  As far as is known, no member of this branch of the Pellerin family emigrated to Louisiana. 

Another Pellerin, Étienne, born in c1647, was, according to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, François's younger brother.  However, Acadian genealogist Stephen A. White, followed here, asserts:  "We are ... in no position to affirm, as certain genealogists have claimed, that François and Étienne were brothers."  Étienne reached Acadia after the first census was taken in 1671 and married Jeanne, daughter of François Savoie and Catherine Lejeune, at Port-Royal in c1675.  They remained in the Port-Royal area.  At one time Étienne owned Hog Island on Rivière-au-Dauphin, now the Annapolis River, near Port-Royal.  In August 1714, soon after the British officially took over the colony, Étienne was among the Acadians who traveled to Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, aboard the King's vessel Marie Joseph to look at land with the possibility of removing to French territory.  Evidently he did not like what he saw there and returned to Annapolis Royal, where he endured British rule in the Acadian capital.  He died at Annapolis Royal in November 1722, age 75.  He and Jeanne had 10 children, five daughters and five sons, at Annapolis Royal.  Their daughters married into the Calvé dit LaForge, Gaudet, Doucet, Brun, and Surette families.  Four of Étienne's sons married into the Martin, Robichaud, and Gaudet families and remained at Annapolis Royal.  In 1755, descendants of Étienne Pellerin and Jeanne Savoie could be found at Annapolis Royal, on Île St.-Jean, and on the St. Lawrence below Québec.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

In December 1755, after the British rounded up the Acadians at Annapolis Royal, they forced three sons of Bernard Pellerin--Pierre, Grégoire, and Charles--and their families aboard the transport Pembroke, destined for North Carolina.  Soon after the ship left Goat Island in the lower Annapolis River, a storm in the lower Bay of Fundy separated the Pembroke from the other deportation transports filled with Annapolis Royal Acadians.  The exiles aboard the Pembroke, led by Pierre Pellerin's father-in-law Charles Belliveau, a pilot, and including the Pellerin brothers, saw their opportunity.  They overwhelmed the officers and crew of the Pembroke, who numbered only eight, seized the vessel, sailed it to Baie Ste.-Marie on the western shore of Nova Scotia, hid there for nearly a month, and then, in January 1756, sailed across the Bay of Fundy to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean.  There, in early February, they were discovered by a boatload of British soldiers and sailors disguised as French troops.  The Pellerins and the others managed to drive off the British force, burn the ship, and make their way with the ship's officers and crew to the Rivière St.-Jean settlement of Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas, where they spent the rest of the winter.  When food ran short at Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas the following summer, brothers Grégoire and Charles took their families to Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrenc shore and then to the French outpost at Restigouche at the head of the Baie de Chaleurs, while brother Pierre and his family went on to Canada probably via the St.-Jean portage.  Charles remarried to a Thibodeau at Restigouche in c1759.  A son was baptized there in June 1760, on the eve of the British attack on the French stronghold.  Brothers Grégoire and Charles remained at Restigouche until the French garrison there surrendered to the British in late October 1760.  From Restigouche, they fled to Nipisiguit down the coast, where they were counted in 1761, and then they were taken to the prison compound at Halifax with other captured exiles from the area.  The brothers appeared on a repatriation list there in August 1763.  Grégoire and his wife were listed with two children, and Charles and his wife were childless, so their son had died by then.  Meanwhile, brother Pierre remarried to a Canadian at Lotbinière above Québec City in 1762.  His daughters also settled on the St. Lawrence. 

Descendants of Étienne Pellerin also were deported from Annapolis Royal to Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina in 1755.  The Pellerin sent to the southern colony died there in c1762.  After the war, the Pellerins in Massachusetts chose to resettle in Canada, where members of the family had gone as early as the late 1740s and in 1756.  Though now also a British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Étienne Pellerin began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, they could be found at Québec City; at Bécancour,Yamachiche, Yamaska, Lotbinière, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, Louiseville, Nicolet, and St.-Grégoire on the St. Lawrence above Québec; and on Île d'Orléans on the St. Lawrence below the city.  They also could be found at Memramcook in present-day southeastern New Brunswick; at Chezzetcook near Halifax in Nova Scotia; and at Pointe-de-l'Est, today's East Point on Prince Edward Island, formerly French Île St.-Jean. 

After the war, descendants of Étienne Pellerin escaped British rule by resettling on the French island of Martinique.  Agathe "of Acadie," daughter of Jean-Baptiste Pellerin and Marie Martin and a granddaughter of Étienne, died at St.-Pierre on the island in October 1764, age 40.  She never married.  Agathe's older sister Marguerite, widow of Claude Doucet, who came to the island from exile in New York, died at St.-Pierre in December, age 54.  One suspects that Agathe came to the island with her sister. 

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

Two Pellerin brothers, Grégoire and Charles, came to Louisiana with the Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français in late February 1765.  In April, they followed the Broussards across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where they helped establish La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche. 

Grégoire Pellerin, age 41, came with wife Cécile Préjean, age 33.  Cécile's mother was an older sister of the Beausoleil Broussard brothers, hence their relationship with the partisan leaders.  The two unnamed children who had been with Grégoire and Cécile on Georges Island in 1763 evidently had died before they departed Halifax in late November 1764.  Despite their middle age, the couple had more children on the Teche, including Émilie in c1766; Frédéric in December 1770; Marie in c1771; and Eugènie in March 1772.  Grégoire died at Attakapas by May 1777, in his early or mid-50s, when his wife was listed in an Attakapas census as a widow.  Cécile did not remarry and lived until January 1808, when she died in her late 70s.  Daughters Émilie, Marie, and Eugènie married into the Sigur, Frere, and Auger or Oger families.  Judging by the numbers and the names of the witnesses on Grégoire's daughters' marriage documents, this humble Acadian's children married men of means and influence, none of them fellow Acadians.  Daughter Émilie and her husband, Pierre René Sigur, married at Attakapas in November 1788 but settled in Iberville Parish on the river.  Nevertheless, a succession for Émilie, naming her Sigur husband, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in September 1826; she would have been in her late 50s or early 60s at the time.  Her siblings remained on the lower Teche.  Only brother Frédéric, baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest at age 2 1/2 in April 1773, married cousin Marie Anne, daughter of Frenchman François Pecot and his Acadian wife Rosalie Préjean of Mirebalais, Haiti, formerly French St.-Domingue, at Attakapas in July 1805.  Marie Anne's family had come to Louisiana from Haiti via Cuba not long before she married Frédéric.  The couple settled on lower Bayou Teche in what became St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born there, included Cécile Rosalie Silenie in August 1806; Marie Rose Eugènie, also called Marie Angélique Désirée Coralie, in April 1811; and Charles Frédéric in March 1819.  By the late 1820s, Fréderic had become one of the pioneer sugar planters on lower Bayou Teche.  His and Marie Anne's daughters married into the Sorrel family.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in July 1833.  He would have been age 63 that year.  Older daughter Cécile Rosalie Célenie married Antoine François Solange, called Solange, Sorrel, a medical doctor, in October 1820 and remained in St. Mary Parish.  Her succession, naming her husband, perhaps post-mortem, was filed at the Franklin courthouse in October 1828; she would have been age 22 at the time.  Younger daughter Marie, wife of Martial Sorrel, avocat of Chautisse arrondissement de St. Martin, Department de Mere, France, Solange's younger brother, accompanied her husband back to France after their 1834 marriage.  They did not return to Louisiana.  Marie died in France in May 1843, age 32.  Fréderic and Marie Anne's son Charles Frédéric's succession, which named his parents but no wife, was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in August 1835, when he would have been age 16.  It was not post-mortem; he did not die until October 1841.  The New Iberia priest who recorded the burial said that Chas. Frédéric died "at age 20 yrs."  He was 22.  He was buried in t    he "cemetery of Martial Sorrel," a brother-in-law, near New Iberia.  Since Charles Frédéric did not marry, his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Grégoire's younger brother Charles, age 35, came to Louisiana with second wife Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Thibodeau, age 27, and no children, but Élisabeth was pregnant when they reached New Orleans in February 1765.  Their daughter Marie was born at Attakapas the following August or September.  Charles died at Attakapas sometime between 1766 and 1768, in his late 30s (Bona Arsenault says Charles died at Opelousas in January 1809).  He had no surviving sons, and daughter Marie also probably died young, unless she was the Marie Pellerin who married Joseph Sennet in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in September 1818.  Nevertheless, this family line, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

The Pellerins of South Louisiana, then, are descended not from the Acadian brothers but from French Creoles and Foreign French.  During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, two vigorous lines established by sons of the Opelousas District's first commandant, Louis-Gérard Pellerin of New Orleans, son of Gérard Pellerin, native of Mezières-sur-Meuse, Diocese of Reims, and French official in the city, settled in what became St. Martin, St. Mary, and Lafayette parishes.  Typical of affluent French Creoles throughout South Louisiana, these Pellerins married into some of the area's most prominent families, but few married Acadians.51

Précieux

Joseph Prétieux, whose name eventually became Précieux, born in Charente, southwestern France, in c1665, married Anne Gautrot probably at nearby La Rochelle in c1688; Anne evidently was not kin to the Gautrots of Acadia.  Their son Joseph, fils was born at La Rochelle in c1689.  A daughter, Anne, born in c1691, was their only other child.  After coming to Acadia soon after the birth of their children, Joseph, père and his family settled at Minas, where they were counted in the census of 1693.  Joseph, père died perhaps soon after the census was taken.  Daughter Anne bore a "natural" son named Jacques in June 1708 and two years later married Pierre, fils, alias Blaise des Brousses dit Bonapetit, son of Pierre Lalande and Marie Labonne, at Port-Royal.  

In January 1719, Joseph, fils married Anne, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier, at Chignecto.  In c1724, Joseph, fils and Anne followed her family to Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean, where they raised five children:  Marie-Anne born in c1732; Louise-Marguerite in c1733; Pierre in c1737; Pierre-Joseph, called Joseph III, in c1739; and Louis in c1741.  They were among the first Acadians to settle on the island.  Joseph, fils's oldest daughter Marie-Anne married Augustin dit Justice, son of Jean Doucet and Françoise Blanchard and widower of Cécile Mius, at Port-La-Joye in December 1752.  Augustin and Marie-Anne were counted in August of that year at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of the island with Augustin's sons Joachim and Joseph Doucet by his first wife.  Augustin and Marie-Anne had two children on the island:  Pierre Doucet born in c1753; Marie Doucet in c1755; and Augustin Doucet, fils, whose birth year was not recorded.  Marie-Anne's sister Louise-Marguerite married Jean-Baptiste, son of François Chiasson and Anne Doucet, on the island in c1752. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds.  When British forces rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Précieuxs and Doucets on Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Marie-Anne and husband Augustin Doucet made the crossing aboard separate ships.  Marie-Anne and her children Pierre, Marie, and Augustin, fils crossed on the deportation transport Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Marie-Anne and her older children survived the crossing, but little Augustin, fils died at sea.  Marie-Anne's father Joseph Précieux, fils, age 67, her mother Anne Haché, age 50, and brothers Joseph III, age 19, and Louis, age 16, also made the crossing on Tamerlane.  One wonders what happened to brother Pierre, who would have been age 21 in 1758.  Joseph, fils, Anne, and their two younger sons made it to St.-Malo, but Louis died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in late February, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Joseph, fils took his family to St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Servan.  Daughter Louise-Marguerite, wife of Jean-Baptiste Chiasson, did not cross with her family on Tamerlane.  The Chiassons crossed on one of the five deporation transports that left the Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, also survived the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Two of their children. ages 6 and 4, died at sea.  Louise, age 26, survived the crossing but died in a hospital at St.-Malo in early February.  Husband Jean-Baptiste was the only member of the family who survived the ordeal.  Meanwhile, Augustin dit Justice Doucet, who had landed in the naval port of Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay in early 1759, was determined to reunite with his wife and children.  He sailed from Rochefort to St.-Malo in April 1759, and he and Marie-Anne settled at St.-Énogat near her family.  

In France, Marie-Anne and Augustin had more children, including two sons:  Jean-Baptiste Doucet at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in September 1766; and François Doucet in September 1770.  In the early 1770s, they ventured to the interior of Poitou with other St.-Malo-area Acadians as part of a settlement venture near the city of Châtellerault.  Marie-Anne's brother Joseph Précieux III married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Thériot, in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in February 1775, but Joseph III died soon afterwards.  After two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians retreated in four convoys from Châtellerault down the Vienne and the  Loire to the port of Nantes.  Augustin and Marie-Anne remained in Poitou, but she did not remain there long.  Augustin died in Poitou the late 1770s or early 1780s.  Marie-Anne moved on to Nantes by September 1784, when she was counted there with her Doucet sons, now in their teens.   

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Marie-Anne Précieux, widow of Augustin dit Justice Doucet, was the only descendant of Joseph Prétieux left in France who could agree to take it.  Marie-Anne's former sister-in-law, Marguerite Benoit, still unmarried, also agreed to go to Louisiana, along with Marguerite's sister Pélagie Benoit, widow of Yves Crochet.  The three widows, with seven children in tow, crossed to the Spanish colony on the same vessel in August 1785. 

Marie-Anne Précieux, age 52, and her two Doucet sons--Jean-Baptiste, age 19, and François, age 14--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and settled in a community the Acadians would call Assumption, in the district the Spanish called Valenzuéla.   Since Marie-Anne was the only Acadian Précieux who emigrated to Louisiana, the Acadian branch of this family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood, however, was perpetuated in two lines of the Doucet family.52

Quimine

Jacques, son of Daniel Kimin, Kimine, or Quimine and Marie Torel of Pennemart, diocese of Nantes, France, born there in c1692, came to British Nova Scotia by February 1715, when he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Gabriel Chiasson and Marie Savoie, at Chignecto.  Between 1718 and 1738, Marie-Josèphe gave Jacques eight children, six daughters and two sons, there:  Marie in c1718; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1721; Anne in c1722; Pierre in c1726; Jean-Jacques in c1729; Judith in c1732; Françoise in c1733; and Marguerite in c1738.  Jacques took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1742.  Four of his and Marie-Josèphe's daughters married into the Prieur dit Dubois, Bertaud dit Montaury, Aubin dit Le Buffe, and Douville families on the island.  Younger son Jean-Jacques married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Thériot and Angélique Doiron of Cobeguit, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, on the north end of the island, in November 1751.  They had at least four children on the island:  Jean-Louis in September 1752; Marie-Madeleine in September 1754; Anne in July 1756 but died eight days after her birth; and Alexis born in June 1757.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jacques, age 60, "fisherman and ploughman, in feeble health," Marie-Josèphe, age 58, four of their unmarried children, including oldest son Pierre, and younger son Jean-Jacques and his family, at Étang-St.-Pierre west of Havre-St.-Pierre.  The same official counted daughter Madeleine, her husband Jacques Bertaud dit Montaury, and their four children at the harbor.  Jacques and Marie-Josèphe's daughter Anne, her husband Sr. Louis Aubin dit Le Buffe, and their two daughters were counted at nearby Nigeagant.  Jacques and Marie-Josèphe's older son Pierre married Marie-Louise, daughter of Michel Grossin and Marie Caissie, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in February 1755.  Louise gave Pierre at least two children on the island:  Marie-Josèphe in January 1756; and Geneviève in June 1757.  Pierre remarried in France during exile.  

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Quimines, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  The deportation devastated the family.  Jacques Quimine, age 60 on the ship's roll (he probably closer to 66), wife Marie-Josèphe Chiasson, age unrecorded (probably 64), and unmarried daughter Françoise, age 23, crossed on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in late November 1758 in a 12-ship convoy, survived a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Jacques and Marie-Josèphe died at sea, but daughter Françoise survived the crossing.  Jacques's daughter Anne, age 40, and husband Louis-Aubin Le Buffe, age 43, also made the crossing aboard one of the Five Ships.  One of their children--daughter Marguerite, age 2--died at sea; the other three, ages 10, 8, and 5, survived the crossing.  Jacques's daughter Marguerite, age 20, crossed with sister Anne's family and also made it to St.-Malo.  Daughter Judith, age 28, and husband Jacques, son of Île St.-Jean pioneers François Douville and Marie Roger, age 32, sailed aboard one of the Five Ships with two of their children and servant Pierre Cosset; all of them survived the crossing.  Jacques's older son Pierre Quimine, age 32, wife Louise Grossin, age 25, and daughters Marie-Josèphe, age 3, and Geneviève, age 2, also made the crossing aboard one of the Five Ships.  Pierre and Louise survived the ordeal, but their daughters died at sea.  Jacques's daughter Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, and husband Jacques, son of Pierre Bertaud dit Montaury and Marie Martin, crossed with six children aboard the transport Supply, which also left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the mid-December storm, put in at Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  Two of their children--a 3-year-old son and a son born aboard ship--died at sea. 

Jacques's youngest son Jean-Jacques Quimine, wife Madeleine Thériot, and their children do not appear on the rolls of the St.-Malo-bound ships nor in any church records in France.  One wonders, then, if they escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or made their way north to Canada.  

From France, Jacques Quimine's daughters scattered to the winds.  Madeleine and husband Jacques Montaury settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, but they did not remain.  In 1763, after the war with Britain ended, "the entire family went to reside at St. Pierre and Miquelon," French-held fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Anne Quimine and husband Louis-Aubin Le Buffe also settled at St-Servan, where a son was born to them in January 1760 but died the following month.  Louis-Aubin died "at the hospital" probably at St.-Servan in June 1762.  The following year, Anne and her children, following her older sister, took Le Marie Charlotte to St.-Pierre and Miquelon.  Judith Quimine was pregnant when she crossed to St.-Malo.  A daughter was born to her and husband Jacques Douville at St.-Servan in January 1759 less than a week after they reached the Breton port.  Another daughter was born at St.-Servan in December 1761.  They followed Judith's sisters to St.-Pierre and Miquelon in 1763.  Marguerite Quimine, still unmarried, followed her sisters to the fishery islands but did not remain. 

Meanwhile, Jacque's daughter Françoise Quimine married Louis, son of fellow Acadians Charles Charpentier and Marie-Josèphe Chenet of St.-Pierre-du-Nord, at St.-Servan in February 1760.  They did not follow her sisters to St.-Pierre and Miquelon.  In 1764, the war now over, "the entire family," including infant son Louis-Jacques-Laurent, followed other Acadians in France aboard Le Fort "to Cayenne" in the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America.  When French authorities conducted a census of the inhabitants at Sinnamary in the Cayenne District in March 1765, they counted Louis Charpenter but not Françoise and Louis-Jacques-Laurent.  Next to Louis's name was the word dissentaire, so one wonders if any member of the family survived the rigors of the tropics.  Also in French Guiane was Françoise's kinswoman, perhaps a niece, Marie-Jeanne Quimine, who would have been age 9 in 1765.  She does not appear in the March 1 census at Sinnamary, so one wonders when she reached the tropical colony.  In February 1771, when she was age 15, she married Jean-Louis, 30-year-old son of Guillaume Busson and Françoise Guillot of Sinnamary.  The recording priest noted that Marie-Jeanne was a daughter of Yves Quenine, as he spelled it, and Marie Grossin.  One wonders if this was Françoise Quimine's older brother Pierre and his wife Marie-Louise Grossin, who had remained in France.  The Sinnamary priest who recorded Marie-Jeanne's marriage also noted that "The said Quenine has stated she does not know how to sign."  In April 1776, at age 20, Marie-Jeanne remarried to Étienne, 27-year-old son of fellow Acadians Pierre Saulnier and his first wife Marguerite Vincent of Minas, at Sinnamary.  Two sons were born at nearby Anse Mapbo in October 1776 and February 1782, so Marie-Jeanne remained in the colony.

Jacques's older son Pierre was the only member of the family who remained in France after the war with Britain ended.  He made his living as a carpenter first at Paramé on the coast northeast of St.-Malo and then at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where his sisters had lived for a time.  He and wife Louise Grossin had more children in France:  Anne-Louise at Paramé in May 1760; and Marie-Perrine in January 1762.  Wife Louise died at St.-Servan in September 1765, in her early 30s, and Pierre remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and Marie Benoit, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, in January 1770.  Marie-Madeleine gave him at least one more daughter, Victoire-Françoise at St.-Servan in March 1771--at least five daughters, by two wives, between 1756 and 1771, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1773, Pierre and his family became part of an attempt by the French government to settle exiles from the port cities on land owned by an influential nobleman near the city of Châtellerault in the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Pierre and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and  the Loire to the port of Nantes.  They settled at nearby Chantenay and subsisted on government handouts and what work they could find.  Daughter Marie-Perrine married Pierre-Ignace, son of fellow Acadians Ignace Heusé and his second wife Cécile Bourg, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in April 1785.  Pierre's older daughter Anne-Louise remained unmarried in France. 

Meanwhile, Pierre's youngest sister Marguerite returned from îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon, where she had gone with her older sisters in the early 1760s.  She married Jean-Aubin, son of fellow Acadians Charles Fouquet and Marie-Judith Poitevin of Île St.-Jean and widower, perhaps, of Marie Chevalier and Madeleine Savary, probably in France in the 1760s.  They were at Port-Louis near Lorient in southern Brittany in 1770 and moved on to Nantes by September 1784. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Hundreds of them, including Pierre and Marguerite Quimine, agreed to take it.  

Members of the family sailed to Louisiana aboard two of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Pierre Quimine, age 59, sailed to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July.  With him were second wife Marie-Madeleine Dugas, age 53, and unmarried daughters Anne-Louise, age 24, and Victoire-Françoise, age 14, by both his wives.  Also aboard the vessel was daughter Marie-Perrine from his first wife and her husband Pierre-Ignace Heusé.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  Pierre died there in the late 1780s, in his early 60s.  Daughter Anne-Louise married Simon-Magloire, son of fellow Acadians Simon Babin and his first wife Anastasie Thériot and widower of Marie-Madeleine Lejeune, at Manchac or Baton Rouge in December 1789.  Simon-Magloire, a native of England, had come to Louisiana from France aboard a later vessel.  On the same day and probably at the same place, Pierre's youngest daughter Victoire-Françoise married Jacques-Olivier, son of fellow Acadians André Templet and his second wife Marguerite LeBlanc.  Jacques-Olivier, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, also had come to Louisiana from France aboard La Bon Papa.  Anne-Louise and Victoire-Françoise followed their husbands, as well as their widowed mother, to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Victoire-Françoise remarried to Antoine, son of Jean-Baptiste Ledet and Marianne Rois, and widower of Marguerite Bilique, a Frenchman from Île de Ré near La Rochelle, France, in November 1797. 

Marguerite Quimine, age 50, sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  With her were husband Jean-Aubin Fouquet, age 52, and two daughters, ages 15 and 11.  They evidently followed some of their fellow passengers to San Bernardo, also called Nueva Gálvez, an Isleño community on the river below New Orleans. 

By the mid-1790s, Spanish officials were counting Quimines from France on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anne-Louise died by April 1822, when her husband Simon Babin remarried in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Victoire-Françoise's husband Antoine Ledet remarried in the early 1800s, but area church records do not provide her burial date.

Pierre Quimine brought no sons to Louisiana and fathered no sons after he got there.  As a result, the Acadian branch of this family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood, however, did survive in two lines of the Babin and Ledet families.53

Rassicot

René, son of Jean Racicot or Rassicot and Marguerite Crosnier of St.-Jean-Ursin, bishopric of Coutances, Normandy, born there in c1705, settled on Île St.-Jean in the late 1720s.  In October 1729, he married Marie, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier of Chignecto and widow of François Poirier, at Port-La-Joye on the island.  He and Marie had at least seven children there:  Jean-Baptiste dit Ratier in c1730; Louise-Geneviève in c1731; René, fils in October 1733; Dominique in c1735; Henri in c1737; and Louis in c1739.  They also had a daughter named Marie, birth date unrecorded, but it probably was in the 1740s--five sons and two daughters.  Wife Marie died on Île St.-Jean in September 1749, age 55.  In August 1752, a French official noted that René also was deceased and that his brother-in-law, Charles Haché, living on the south side of upper Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior, was, according to one source, providing for the Rassicot children, "minor and major."  At least three of René and Marie's children created families of their own on the island.  Jean-Baptiste dit Ratier, at age 23, counted in Auguste 1752 on Rivière-de-Peugiguit in the island's interior, married Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, daughter of Louis Pothier and Cécile Nuirat of Chignecto and Havre-à-l'Anguille and stepdaughter of Norman fisherman Julien Compagnon of Havre-St.-Pierre, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in January 1754.  Jean-Baptiste became a sailor.  René, fils, at age 24, married Marie, daughter of Charles Benoit and Madeleine Thériot of Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye in October 1757.  Marie married Nicolas Laporte, date and place unknown. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755, René Rassicot's children, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the island and deported them to France. 

René Rassicot, fils, age 25, and wife Marie Benoit, age 22, crossed on the deporation transport Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November, survivied a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, and reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Both survived the crossing and settled at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  They seem to have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  In 1760, René, fils volunteered for service aboard the corsair Hercules, was captured by the Royal Navy, and held as a prisoner of war in England.  Meanwhile, in 1761, wife Marie moved from Châteauneuf to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, perhaps to be closer to the port when her husband returned from corsair duty.  He did not return.  She was listed at St.-Servan as a widow in 1764, a year after the Acadians in England, including captured privateers, were repatriated to France.  In January 1766, she remarried to Joseph, son of fellow Acadians Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry and widower of Marguerite Richard, at St.-Servan. 

In 1759, René, fils's older brother Jean-Baptiste dit Ratier and wife Marie-Henriette Pothier landed at Cherbourg in Normandy, where at least five children were born to them in Très Ste.-Trinité Parish:  Jean-Baptiste, fils in c1761; Louis in c1763; Jean-François in June 1765; Anne-Marguerite in c1768; and Marie-Henriette in c1770.  In late May 1771, they sailed from Cherbourg down and around to St.-Malo, arriving there the first of June.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port and across from where younger brother René, fils had settled before moving up to St.-Servan..  Jean-Baptiste died at La Ville de Port St.-Hubert near Plouër in June 1771, age 40.  In the early 1770s, Marie-Henriette and her children ventured to the interior of Poitou, where French authorities hoped to settle Acadians from the port cities on land owned by an influential nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  Marie-Henriette remarried to Pierre, son of fellow Acadians Augustin Gaudet and Agnès Chiasson of Chignecto and widower of Anne Giroir, at Châtellerault in October 1775.  The following month, after two years of effort, she, her new husband, and her Rassicot children retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes.  By 1785, Marie-Henriette was a widow again.  Her son Jean-Baptiste Rassicot, fils married Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph D'Amours de Chaufours and Geneviève Leroy, at St.-Martin de Chantenay, near Nantes, in May 1781.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died soon after the wedding, and Rose remarried to a Thibodeau. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Hundreds of them, including Marie-Henriette Pothier and three of her Rassicot children, agreed to take it.  

Marie-Henriette Pothier, age 46, widow of Jean-Baptiste dit Ratier Rassicot, and three of her children--Jean-François, age 20; Anne-Marguerite, age 17; and Marie-Henriette, age 15--sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in November 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Marie-Henriette died in January 1787.  

Both of her daughters created families of their own in the Spanish colony.  Anne-Marguerite married Tranquille-François, son of fellow Acadians Pierre Arcement and Marie Hébert, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in July 1788.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anne Marguerite died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1834, in her mid-60s.  Younger sister Marie-Henriette married twice, first to French Creole Pierre Lecompte at Lafourche in July 1791.  A few years later, she was a young widow and caught the eye of one of the most influential men in the colony.  Louis Judice, born at New Orleans in October 1731, had married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Cantrelle, founder of the Cabahannocer settlement.  By 1765, Judice and his family were living on a large holding at Cabahannocer granted to him by the French authorities in New Orleans.  After the Spanish took over the colony in March 1766, Louis became co-commandant of the Cabahannocer district with his brother-in-law, Nicolas Verret.  In 1769, Spanish General Alejandro O'Reilly appointed Louis as commandant of the Lafourche des Chitimachas District, which the Acadians called Ascension after its church.  Louis and Marie-Jeanne Cantrelle had a number of children.  By the 1790s, the aging Louis was a widower, but he was determined to take another wife.  In June 1795, 64-year-old Louis Judice, captain of the German Coast militia and commandant of the Ascension District, married 25-year-old Marie-Henriette Rassicot, the widow Lecompte, at Ascension.  Marie-Henriette died a widow in Ascension Parish in February 1826, age 56. 

Marie-Henriette Pothier's son Jean-François, called François, was the only Acadian male Rassicot to make it to Louisiana.  He also settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Boudrot and Brigitte Apart, in January 1787.  A native of Trigavou near Plouër-sur-Rance, Marie-Madeleine also had crossed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, so she and François may have known one another in France.  She died within days of their wedding, so she gave him no children.  François remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Robichaud and his second wife Anne Hébert, at Lafourche in June 1788.  Marie-Josèphe, a native of St.-Suliac across the river from Plouër, had crossed to Louisiana aboard an earlier ship.  She and Jean-François settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Henriette-Adélaïde in March 1790; Marie-Adélaïde in November 1792; Isabelle-Anne in May 1793; Marie-Clémence in March 1795; and Rosalie, birth date unrecorded--five daughters who married into the Bertrand, Guillon or Guillou, Gaubert, Richard, Bergeron, and Robichaux families and remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Jean-François died at Assumption in c1797, age 32.  His succession, calling him Juan Francisco Rauvichau and his wife Maria Rauvichau, was filed at what became the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in January 1800.  He fathered no sons.  As a result, the Acadian branch of the Rassicot family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood, however, did survive in a number of South Louisiana families.54

Renaud

Renaud is a common surname in France, so, as early as 1685, a number of Frenchmen with the name emigrated to greater Acadia.  Among the last of them was Jean dit Arnaud, son of Pierre Renaud and Marie-Madeleine Gainné of Rochefort, France, born there in c1704.  Probably unrelated to the other Renauds in Acadia, Jean dit Arnaud came to Île St.-Jean in the early 1720s and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Acadians Jean Pothier and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of the island, in October 1733.  They settled at nearby Havre-au-Sauvage, where a French official counted the couple and seven of their children in August 1752.  The official noted that Jean Arnauld, as he called him, "has been in the country 28 years."  From 1734 to 1758, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean at least 10 children, seven daughters and three sons, on the island:  Marie in December 1734; Rosalie in January 1737; Collette in February 1739; Jean, fils in April 1741; Anne in October 1743; Véronique in c1747; Madeleine-Josèphe in March 1752; Jean-Charles in August 1754 but died at age 3 months the following November; Jacques in December 1755; and Marie-Anne in August 1758.  Oldest daughter Marie married Raphaël La Clair at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in January 1754.

As a result of the British conquest of Île St.-Jean in the summer of 1758, at least one of Jean Renaud dit Arnaud's sons, Jean, fils, and two of his daughters, Colette and Véronique, ended up at Cherbourg in Normandy.  There, Colette married Frenchman René Le Tuillier of Roville, bishopric of Coutances, Normandy, in c1762.  Jean, fils, who became a sailor, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Madeleine Granger of Port-Royal, in Tres-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in January 1764.  Véronique married Jean-François, called François, son of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste De La Mazière dit Ladouceur and Marie Poirier of Île St.-Jean, at Cherbourg in c1768.  Jean-François was a navigator, a blacksmith, and also a carpenter.  The siblings and their spouses had a number of children in their years at Cherbourg.  Colette and husband René had at least seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Jean, fils and wife Marie had at least four children:  Jean III or Jean-Baptiste in July 1765; Isidore-Marin; Pierre-David; and Marie-Anne in April 1772.  Véronique and husband Jean-François had at least two children, a son and a daughter.  

In 1773, all three families followed hundreds of other exiles languishing in the port cities to the interior of Poitou as part of a major settlement venture there.  An influential nobleman had offered to settle them on land he owned near the city of Châtellerault.  Colette and her husband lost a son there, who died at age 2.  Jean, fils and his wife had another son, Louis-Auguste, baptized in St.-Jean-l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in February 1775.  Véronique and her husband also had another child, a daughter, baptized at La Chapelle-Roux near Châtellerault in July 1775.  In October and December 1775, after two years of effort, the Renaud siblings and their families retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  They settled at nearby Chantenay, where they lived as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find.  Colette and her husband buried a son, age 9, at Chantenay in July 1776.  Their daughter Marie-Rose Le Tullier married Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadians François Legendre and Marguerite Labauve of Meillac south of St.-Malo, France, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in September 1783.  Jean, fils's son Joseph-Abraham was baptized at St.-Martin de Chantenay in April 1777.  Véronique and her husband had four more children, a son and three daughters, at Chantenay between 1777 and 1783, but the youngest daughter died at age 5 months in June 1783.  Meanwhile, in October 1780, they buried a 5-year-old daughter.  In January 1784, at age 50, Colette's husband, René Le Tullier, died, leaving her a widow with three teenage children to look after. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in Louisiana, most of the Acadians there, but very few Renauds, agreed to take it.  Jean, fils, for instance, though married to a fellow Acadian, chose to remain at Nantes.  However, his sisters Colette and Véronique and their husbands, and Colette's married daughter Marie-Rose Le Tullier and her husband, agreed to go to the Spanish colony. 

Marie-Rose, age 20, husband Jean-Baptiste Legendre, age 25, and their infant daughter Rose sailed to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge.  Colette, age 45, and three of her unmarried Le Tullier children, ages 19, 16 and 14, sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in late August and reached New Orleans in November 1785.  They did not follow their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but chose to join daughter Marie-Rose and her husband at Manchac.  Colette's sister Véronique, age 37, also sailed aboard L'Amitié, with husband Jean-François De La Mazière, age 37, and three children, ages 8, 6, and 4.  Véronique was pregnant when the ship left Paimboeuf.  In early October, during the crossing, she gave birth to another daughter, whom she and her husband named Martina, or Martine, in honor of Louisiana's Spanish intendente, Martin Navarro, who served as godfather to the newborn Acadians. Véronique and her family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the De La Mazières shortened their name to Mazière.  

The Renaud sisters from Île St.-Jean were the only Acadians with the name to settle in Louisiana.  Younger sister Véronique's Mazière's son Jean-Baptiste fathered no children.  However, Colette's Le Tullier sons married Daigre sisters and created vigorous lines in the Baton Rouge area, so the blood of the Acadian Renauds survived in the Bayou State.  The Renauds or Reynauds of South Louisiana today are descendants of French Creoles, Foreign French, or Afro Creoles, not Acadians.55

Ritte

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Catherine Ritte, widow of Guillaume Blanchard, was Acadian.  Evidently she settled in the Opelousas District, where she was buried in April 1790 under the name Catherine Rieter.56

Savary

François Savary, a mason and stone cutter, was indentured to Antoine Héron "for the company of Acadia" in 1686.  In c1689, free from his contract, François married Geneviève Forest at Port-Royal.  They had one child, son André, born at Port-Royal in c1690.  When the boy was age 2, his mother remarried to Louis Mazerolle dit Saint-Louis, so François must have died soon after his son was born; André may even have been born posthumously.  Louis Mazerolle raised André, who, in February 1712, married Marie-Marthe, daughter of Bernard Doucet dit Laverdure and Madeleine Corporon, at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal.  Between 1714 and 1739, Marie-Marthe gave André 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Doiron and Horne families.  Three of André and Marie-Marthe's sons also married.  In the 1730s and 1740s, the couple lived at Pigiguit and Grand-Pré in the Minas Basin before moving on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  One wonders if Marie-Marthe had died by then.  In August 1752, André, now a widower, age 60, was counted at Petite-Ascension in the interior of the island with six unmarried children:  Charles, age 25; Marguerite, age 23; Marguerite-Josèphe, age 21; Jean-Baptiste, age 20; Françoise-Anastasie, age 18; and Charles-Olivier, age 13.  Oldest son Bernard, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1714, married Marie, daughter of François Michel dit La Ruine and Marguerite Meunier, probably at Pigiguit in c1734.  They followed his father to Île St.-Jean and were counted at Petite-Ascension in August 1752 with seven of their 13 children:  André le jeune, age 17; Jean-Baptiste le jeune, age 14; Agnès, age 10; Isaac, age 9; Rose, age 7; Charles le jeune, age 3; and Louis, age 13 months.  André's second son Joseph, born at Grand-Pré in February 1721, married Françoise, daughter of Antoine Barrieau and Angélique Thibodeau, probably at Pigiguit in c1747.  He and Françoise also followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where they were counted at Petite-Ascension in August 1752 with two children:  Joseph, age 4; and Marie, age 2.  André's third son Charles, born at either Pigiguit or Grand-Pré in c1727, followed his father to Île St.-Jean and married Louise-Geneviève, daughter of Louis Closquinet or Clossinet and Marguerite Longuépée, on the island in c1755. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia during the summer and fall of 1755, the Savarys on Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean deported them to France. 

Some of the Savarys on Île St.-Jean managed to elude the British.  André, perhaps sensing the futility of remaining on the island during a full-blown war between in greater Acadia between Britain and France, fled north to Québec even before the fall of Louisbourg.  He was buried at St.-Jean, Île d'Orléans, just downriver from Québec City, in November 1757, age 65, a year before the British captured the Maritimes islands--victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Son Joseph and his family must have gone to Québec with him; Joseph died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec City in January 1758, age 37, probably another victim of the pox.  Oldest son Bernard and his family, except for daughter Anne-Marie-Madeleine, also may have escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean. 

Other Savarys on Île St.-Jean did not escape the British in 1758.  André Savary's third son Charles, age 31, wife Louise Clossinet, age 34, and sons Jean-Charles, age 2 1/2, and Charles, fils, age unrecorded, made the crossing to St.-Malo, France, aboard the deportation transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in late November in a 12-ship convoy, was damaged in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, put in at Bideford, England, for repairs, and finally reached St.-Malo during the second week of March 1759.  Charles, père, Louise, and Jean-Charles survived the crossing, but Charles, fils died at sea.  Charles, père died at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in late April 1759, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Widow Louise remarried to fellow Acadian Charles Trahan at Châteauneuf south of St.-Suliac in August 1759.  Another Charles Savary, age 18, probably André's fifth and youngest son Charles-Olivier, crossed alone on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy in late November, survived the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January.  Young Charles survived the crossing.  In February 1760, perhaps having become a sailor, he embarked on the ship Prince-Édouard, perhaps a privateer vessel, and disappears from history. 

Charles, père's and Charles-Olivier's niece--oldest brother Bernard's daughter Anne-Marie-Madeleine, age 17--made the crossing on a deportation transport that took her to Cherbourg in Normandy.  One suspects she crossed with relatives who looked after her.  She did not remain in the Norman port.  She was living probably with relatives at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the river south of St.-Suliac from 1759 to 1771 and was at Plouër-sur-Rance across the river from Pleudihen in 1772.  Still in her teens, she married fellow Acadian Pierre Pothier, widower of Marie Comeau, at Pleudihen in May 1771.  One wonders if they joined hundreds of other Acadians in the settlement venture in Poitou in the early 1770s and moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes in the mid-1770s.  By September 1784, Anne was living at Nantes, a widow, with two young Pothier sons:  Baptiste-Olivier, born in c1773; and Jacques-Sylvain in c1778.  When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Anne-Marie-Madeleine Savary and her sons agreed to take it.  The other Acadian Savary who might have still been in France--first cousin Jean-Charles, who, if he was still alive, would have been age 29 in 1785--chose to remain. 

Anne-Marie-Madeleine, age 31, crossed to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, with her two sons, Baptiste-Olivier Pothier, age 12, and Jacques-Sylvain Pothier, age 7.  They reached New Orleans in August 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Anne remarried to Joseph, fils, son of fellow Acadians Joseph Granger and Marguerite Gautrot, in June 1786.  Joseph, fils, a native of Minas, also had come to Louisiana from France in 1785, though on which vessel the records do not say.  Anne-Marie-Madeleine had no more children by him.  Her younger son Jacques-Sylvain Potier seems to have died not long after the family reached Louisiana.  Older son Baptiste-Olivier Potier married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Aucoin and Élisabeth Hébert, who also had come to Louisiana from France, aboard the third ship Le Beaumont.  Baptiste-Olivier and Isabelle set down roots on Bayou Lafourche. 

No male descendant of an Acadian Savary emigrated to Louisiana.  However, the blood of one family, that of François Savary of Port-Royal and his only son André of Île St.-Jean, survived through a line of the Potier family that sprang from one of André's granddaughters.  The Savarys, or Savorys, of South Louisiana today are descended from French Creoles, Foreign French, or Anglo Americans, not Acadians.57

Ségoillot

Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin, son of Dominique Ségoillot and Marie Boulet (Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault says the mother was Étiennette Ducharme), born at St.-Pierre, Autun, Bourgogne, France, in c1714, served in the Louisbourg garrison as a senior sergeant of troupes de la marine beginning in the early 1730s.  Probably after he retired from the King's service, he married Élisabeth-Blanche, 17-year-old daughter of Acadians François LaVache and Anne-Marie Vincent, at Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean in September1752.  A few days earlier, a French official counted them at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island.  Élisabeth-Blanche gave Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin a son, François-Dominique, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the north end of the island in July 1753.  The old sergeant remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Naquin and Jeanne Melanson of Cobeguit, at Port-La-Joye in September 1755.  Marguerite gave him a daughter, Marie, born probably on the island in c1756.

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755, the Ségoillots on Île St.-Jean, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats deported most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean to France.  Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin, age 45, wife Marguerite Naquin, age 35, son François-Dominique, age 5 1/2, and daughter Marie, age 21 months, made the crossing aboard one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758 and, despite a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  All of the family survived the crossing except little Marie, who died at sea.  

In France, Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin and his family settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Marguerite gave the old soldier another daughter at St.-Suliac, Marie-Françoise in January 1764.  The year after Marie-Françoise's birth, the family moved from St.-Suliac to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they joined dozens of other Acadians from the coastal cities, most of them recently repatriated from England, who were determined to bring life to the sandy soil of the big island off the southern coast of Brittany.  Another daughter, Marguerite-Josèphe, was born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1766--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1753 and 1766, in greater Acadia and France.  A French official counted the family at Borbren in the parish of Locmoria on the southeast end of the island in February 1767.  Émilien dit Sans-Chagrin and Marguerite died on the island, he in c1769, in his late 50s, she in December 1773, in her late 40s.  After his parents died, François-Dominique, age 20 in 1773, if he was still living, may have resolved to remain on the island.  His sisters did not. 

In September 1784, Spanish officials counted Marie Sigoliau, probably Marie-Françoise, and an unnamed orphan, probably Marguerite-Josèphe, in the lower Loire port of Nantes in southeastern Brittany.  They would have been ages 20 and 18 at the time of the survey, and they were recorded on a list of Acadians in the city who expressed interest in going to Louisiana at the expense of the Spanish crown.  When it was time to board a ship for New Orleans, however, Marie-Françoise did not go.  Perhaps she married a Frenchman at Nantes who insisted that they remain in the mother country, or she may have died before the first of the Seven Ships set sail from Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in May 1785.  Younger sister Marguerite-Josèphe evidently had no reason to stay. 

Marguerite-Josèphe Ségoillot, age 19, crossed to Louisiana alone aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  After a short respite in the city, she may have followed most of her fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, or she may have remained at New Orleans.  She was the only Ségoillot to emigrate to Louisiana, and there is no evidence that she married there.  The Acadian branch of this family, then, perhaps including its blood, did not take root in the Bayou State.  

One wonders what happened to her after she reached the colony with hundreds of her fellow exiles.  One possibility is a tragic one.  According to the most careful study of the Seven Ships expedition, that of Oscar Wenzerling, the first ship, Le Bon Papa, reached New Orleans from Paimboeuf in late July 1785.  Winzerling continues: "The voyage was a success in its freedom from storms, and from epidemics and sickness of any kind.  Only one death," that of an infant, he adds, "marred an otherwise perfect voyage."  Such was not the fate of the second ship, La Bergère, which left Paimboeuf in May only four days after Le Bon Papa set sail, but La Bergère did not reach New Orleans until the middle of August.  Le Bon Papa had carried 156 passengers; La Bergère, a frigate and a larger ship, was burdened with 273.  La Bergère reached New Orleans "fortunately without any mishap," Winzerling notes, but the voyage was not as "perfect" as the previous one.  Six elderly persons had died at sea, but seven babies had been born before the ship reached the city.  Sadly, nine more passengers from La Bergère died at New Orleans while they recuperated from the 93-day voyage.  The debarkation list for La Bergère, which has survived, does not include the name of "single girl" Marguerite-Josèphe Ségoillot; she appears only on the ship's embarkation list.  Was the 19-year-old daughter of the old sergeant from Île St.-Jean one of the passengers who died at New Orleans during the period of recuperation?58

Surette

Pierre, son of Noël Surette and Françoise Colarde of Mauset, diocese of La Rochelle, France, born in c1679, was a sailor when he came to French Acadia.  He married Jeanne, daughter of Étienne Pellerin and Jeanne Savoie, at Port-Royal in February 1709.  They remained at Port-Royal and settled in the parish of St.-Laurent on the haute rivière, now the upper Annapolis River.  Although Pierre became a farmer along the haute rivière, he also continued to work as a sailor.  As late as 1724, when he was in his mid-40s, records show him as a crew member on Englishman William Winniett's sailing vessel.  Between 1709 and 1728, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Jeanne gave Pierre nine children, three sons and six daughters.  Pierre died at Annapolis Royal in October 1749, age 70.  Four of his daughters married into the Doucet, Gignac, Long, Mius d'Azy, and Petitot dit Saint-Seine families.  His three sons also created families of their own, but they did not remain on haute rivière.  Oldest son Pierre II, as he was called, born in December 1709, married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Breau and Anne LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in September 1732 and lived at Minas before moving to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  Middle son Joseph, born in May 1712, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marguerite Cormier, at Grand-Pré in October 1730.  They remained at Minas before moving to Petitcoudiac, where Joseph drowned in the river there in c1750.   Pierre, père's youngest son Paul, twin of sister Madeleine, born in November 1721, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of ____ Landry and Élisabeth Thériot and widow of Jean Landry, in c1758 during exile.  In 1755, descendants of Pierre Surette, père could be found at Annapolis Royal, Minas, and Petitcoudiac.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family even farther. 

After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in the early 1750s, area Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Surettes were among the trois-rivières Acadians who were serving in the fort as militia, though they may have left the fort a few days before it surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French troupes de la marine at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the area Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Evidently the Surettes, led by Pierre II, escaped this first round of deportations.  They instead helped form an Acadian resistance that both attacked the British in their Missaguash forts and protected their homes in the trois-rivières.  The British managed to capture some of the resistance fighters, including Pierre II, who was confined in Fort Cumberland, formerly Beauséjour, but he did not remain in British custody for long.  In late February 1756, Pierre II, who had ingratiated himself with his British captors, led a daring escape from Fort Cumberland.  Eighty Acadians squeezed through a tunnel they had dug with discarded horse bones.  They escaped to the woods and managed to elude the British, but they paid a terrible price in doing so. 

At Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence they suffered almost as much as they had done in the woods north of Chignecto.  In November 1759, near Memramcook, Pierre II and two other Acadian resistance leaders, Jean and Michel Bourg, "surrendered" to the British, but Pierre Surette II, at least, escaped again.  The following spring, he rejoined the resistance movement at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, now a major Acadian refuge, which a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked in late June 1760.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militiia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to resist a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison and lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, returned to Restigouche to accept the French garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers compiled a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  No Surettes appeared on the list, not surprising when one considers the stealthy nature of the Acadian resistance.  However, the French in Canada had surrendered that colony after the fall of Montréal, and the resistance could no longer expect assistance of any kind from that quarter.  During the following months, the refugees at Restigouche, along with hundreds of other exiles who either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted Pierre II with a family of five in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762. 

At war's end, Pierre II and members of his family decided to remain in greater Acadia.  They settled at Chezzetcook near Halifax until c1770, when they moved down the coast to Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau, present-day Pointe-à-Rocco, northeast of Cap-Sable.  Pierre II's sons Charles-Amand, Joseph, and Paul, along with some of their Surette cousins, settled on Rivière St.-Jean in the late 1760s, but some of them joined Pierre II near Halifax by 1769.  Pierre II's nephew Pierre le jeune, son of Joseph, settled at Pointe-du-Diable near the British settlement of Dartmouth, across from Halifax.  Surettes, especially descendants of Pierre II, also settled at Météghan and other Acadian communities on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary Bay, along the western shore of Nova Scotia.

Other members of the family who had escaped the British in 1755 sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre II's widowed mother Jeanne Pellerin died at Québec in late January 1758, age 70, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Brother Joseph's daughter Anne, widow of Paul Doucet, remarried to fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Pitre at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets above Québec in March 1761.  Pierre II's youngest sister Françoise, widow of Joseph Petitot dit Saint-Seine, remarried to Jacques, fils, son of Jacques Gignac and Marie-Anne Richard and widower of Anne-Françoise Lafond dit Mongrain, at Ste.-Foy near Québec City in October 1764.  Joseph's daughter Marguerite married Jacques, fils, son of Canadians Jacques Tessier and Marie-Louie Monet, at La Chine above Montréal in January 1766.

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

In late 1764, Pierre Surette, age unrecorded, his wife Marie Thibodeau, age 25, and their 3-year-old daughter Anne-Marie followed the Beausoleil Broussards from Halifax via Cap-Français to New Orleans, which they reached in late February 1765.  Also in the party were Marie's widowed mother and three of Marie's younger siblings.  After a short respite in New Orleans, during which daughter Marie-Anne was baptized on March 4 at the St.-Louis church, Pierre and Marie followed the Broussards and the Thibodeaus to the Attakapas District, where they helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.  Marie was pregnant when they reached the colony, and in June, two months after they settled on the lower Teche, she gave birth to son Augustin.  

That summer and fall, a mysterious epidemic swept through the Teche valley settlements and killed dozens of Acadians.  When French officials counted the surviving Attakapas settlers in April 1766, only Marie Thibodeaux and daughter Marie-Anne Surette were left in her household at La Manque on the lower Teche.  Pierre and the infant Augustin must have died by then, perhaps unrecorded victims of the epidemic.  Marie remained on the Teche and remarried to fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Semer at Attakapas in c1768.  

Marie-Anne Surette married Firmin dit Ephrem, son of fellow Acadians Bruno Robichaux and Félicité Broussard, at Attakapas in April 1778.  She gave him 10 children between 1779 and his death in 1804.  In August 1811, in her late 40s, she remarried to Marcel, son of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Agnès or Anne Babin, at the St. Martinville church in St. Martin Parish.  Soon after their marriage, Marie-Anne's second husband secured a decree of separation from her.  She died at her home at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche in November 1817.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she died at "age about 53 years."  She was 55.  Her successions were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1811 and December 1817. 

Though her parents produced a son in Louisiana, the boy died in childhood, and her father Pierre did not live long enough to father more children.  The Acadian branch of the family, then, survived in a line of the Robichaux family, but it did not take root in the Bayou State.  The Surettes of South Louisiana today are French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians who share blood with the famous resistance fighter, Pierre II.59

The Foundational Acadian Families of South Louisiana

The failure of these 56 families to establish detectable agnatic lines in the Bayou State left 101 other Acadian families to serve as the foundation of today's Cajun culture.  Forty-six of these "foundational families" produced fairly large lines in Louisiana.  Among the largest, eight of them--Babin, Boudreaux, Breaux, Hébert, Landry, LeBlanc, Richard, and Thibodeaux--were some of the oldest families in French Acadia.  Two others--Broussard and Guidry--had been relatively small families in the old country but proliferated dramatically in Louisiana.  Many of the other, older families--Arceneaux, Aucoin, Benoit, Bergeron, Bernard, Blanchard, Bourg/Bourque, Bourgeois, Chiasson, Comeaux, Cormier, Daigre/Daigle, Doucet, Dugas, Dupuis, Foret, Gaudet, Gautreaux, Girouard, Godin/Gaudin, Guilbeau, Leger, Lejeune, Martin, Melançon, Pitre, Prejean, Robichaux, Savoie, Sonnier, Theriot, and Trahan--created substantial lines in the Bayou State.  Several families--Duhon, Guillot, Mire, and Mouton--had reached Acadia somewhat later than the others and were relatively small in size there, but in Louisiana they, too, proliferated during the antebellum period.  Most of the Acadian families in the Bayou State, however--Achee, Allain, Arbour, Arcement, Babineaux, Barrilleaux, Bertrand, Boutin, Brasseaux, Bujole, Clément, Clouâtre, Crochet, Dantin, David, Delaune, Deroche, Doiron, Dubois, Gousman, Granger, Gravois, Henry, Jeansonne, Labauve, Lachaussee, Lalande, Lambert, Lanoux, Lebert, Legendre, Levron, Longuépée, Louvière, Mazerolle, Michel, Moise, Molaison, Naquin, Orillion, Ozelet, Part, Pinel, Poirier, Potier, Prince, Rivet, Roger, Roy, Semere, Talbot, Templet, Use, Villejoin, and Vincent--were, by the end of the antebellum period, comparatively smaller in numbers than their prolific cousins.02

The surviving families settled in every corner of South Louisiana, including areas in which, during the colonial period, Acadians had not gone or had been numerical minorities.  Beginning in the 1830s, led by the Guidrys, a hand full of Acadian families from the southwest prairies crossed the Sabine River and resettled in East Texas, the first of them while Texas was still a province of Mexico.  One family--the Gousmans, who were descended from a Spaniard who married in British Nova Scotia--moved from the river below New Orleans north to St. Tammany, and there they remained.  Most of the foundational families, however, remained in the predominantly-Acadian areas of South Louisiana:  in the river parishes above New Orleans, still called the Acadian Coast; the Bayou Lafourche/Bayou Terrebonne valley; and on the southwest prairies.  Members of many families, especially the largest ones, could be found in all three Acadian areas of settlement, east and west of the Atchafalaya Basin: 

Achée

Michel Haché dit Gallant, son of Pierre Larcher or Larché of St.-Pierre parish, Montdidier, Picardie, in northern France, and an unidentified Indian woman, was born at Trois-Rivières, Canada, in c1662.  Michel came to Acadia as a young servant of Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière, the seigneur of Chignecto, between 1678 and 1682, and married Anne, daughter of Chignecto pioneers Thomas Cormier and Madeleine Girouard, in c1690.  Around 1720, probably to escape British authority in Nova Scotia, Michel dit Gallant became a pioneer himself when he moved his family from Chignecto to what the French called Île St.-Jean.  According to many historians, Michel Haché dit Gallant was "one of the island's first European settlers" and the first Acadian who settled on the island.  He built his new home on a red sandstone cliff now called Rocky Point, overlooking a promising harbor that came to be known as Port-La-Joye, across the channel from today's Charlottetown, the capital of the province of Prince Edward Island.  Michel dit Gallant and Anne had 12 children.  He died after falling through the ice at the mouth of Rivière-du-Nord, across from Port-La-Joye, in April 1737, age 74.  His daughters married into the Poirier, Rassicot, Prétieux, Jacqueline dit Lorraine, Hango dit Choisy, Duval, and Belliveau families.  His seven sons, all born at Chignecto, married into the LeBlanc, Gaudet, Gentil, Lavergne, and Boudrot families and settled on Île St.-Jean, though one of them, the oldest, returned to Beaubassin at Chignecto.   Le Grand Dérangement scattered this family even farther. 

The Chignecto Acadians were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian milita, assisted by Abbé Le Loutre and his Mi'kmaq warriors, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Hachés may have been were among the refugees of this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Chignecto Acadians served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  Two Haché brothers ended up on the sloop Endeavor, which left Chignecto on October 13 and reached Charles Town, South Carolina, on November 19.  Evidently they were among the exiles in South Carolina who colonial officials encouraged to return to Acadia by boat the following spring.  After a long, trying journey to the lower Rivière St.-Jean, which they reached that summer, they continued on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada. 

Members of the family at Chignecto who escaped the British in the fall of 1755 also took refuge in Canada.  A Haché married to a Doucet died at Québec in November or December 1757, in her late 20s, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles, including her husband's father, in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Her sister, also married to a Doucet, died at Trois-Rivières on the upper St.-Lawrence in August 1762, in her early 40s, during the final months of the war. 

The many Hachés still on Île St.-Jean in 1755 escaped the roundup of their loved ones at Chignecto.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the island habitants and deported them to France.  Most of the island Haché dit Gallants escaped the British, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, some of them moved on to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they joined their cousins from Chignecto.  Some of their island cousins, however, were deported to France. 

The crossing to France devastated the family.  Hachés crossed on the deporation transport Duc Guillaume, which, left the Maritimes in September and, after a mid-ocean mishap, limped into St.-Malo harbor in early November.  Some of them died at sea.  Other Hachés fared just as badly on the crossing to St.-Malo.  A Haché wife and her family were lost at sea on the British transport Violet, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November and sank in a mid December off the southwest coast of England.  None survived.  Hachés crossed on the transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the storm that sank the Violet, put in at Bideford, England, for repairs, and did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759.  More members of the family perished.  A Haché wife and her family crossed on the transport Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo in mid-January.  They all survived the crossing.  Hachés also crossed on one of the five transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, survived the storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January, but many more members of the family were lost.  Island Hachés did their best to make a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  They settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo; in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer across from St.-Énogat; and at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Servan.  Island Hachés also landed at the northern fishing port of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie, not far from their ancestor's birthplace, but few remained.  Island Hachés also landed at Cherbourg in Normandy, but none of them remained.  Many of the Hachés in these ports joined their cousins at St.-Énogat and St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Members of the family ended up at the southern port of Bordeaux on the Bay of Biscay, and there they stayed.  In late 1765, a widow and her Haché children followed her second husband to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany--among the relatively few island Acadians who went there with dozens of fellow Acadians recently repatriated from England.  In February 1767, French officials counted the widow and her family at Keruest near Bangor in the island's southern interior.  One of Michel Haché dit Gallant's descendants made it to France by a different route.  She evidently had followed her husband to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  One wonders if she and her family went to Miquelon from imprisonment in Nova Scotia at war's end, or if they were deported from the French Maritimes to France in 1758-59 and followed other Acadians from the mother country to the Newfoundland island in the 1770s.  No matter, she did not remain on the island.  In the summer of 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the Newfoundland islands and deported her family, along with the other islanders, to France.  She died in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, in October 1779, age 65.  In the early 1770s, Hachés languishing in the port cities chose in even greater numbers to take part in another settlement venture, this one in the interior of Poitou.  French authorities were tired of providing for the exiles languishing in the port cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned near the city of Châtellerault.  Members of the family went there from St.-Énogat, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Cherbourg, and Boulogne-sur-Mer.  Beginning in October 1775, after two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians, including the Hachés, retreated in four convoys down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government handouts and on what work they could find.  They settled in the parishes of St.-Jacques and St.-Nicolas at Nantes and especially at nearby Chantenay.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in Louisiana.  At least 17 Hachés, all from the Nantes parishes, agreed to take it.  Some of the island Hachés, however, perhaps the majority of them, chose to remain in the mother country.  They included a family from Belle-Île-en-Mer that had moved on to Lorient in southern Brittany, as well as the remaining Hachés at Bordeaux.

In North America, things got only worse for the Acadians who had escaped the British in the late 1750s and taken refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche   After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and  retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians at Restgouche, many Haché dit Gallants among them.  They, along with other exiles captured or surrendered in the region, were held in prison compounds on the Gulf shore or in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, a Haché family appeared on a repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old family homesteads at Chignecto. 

After the war, Haché dit Gallants from Chignecto and Île St.-Jean who had taken refuge in Canada and at Restigouche could be found in scattered communities from the upper St. Lawrence down to Cape Breton Island, all part of present-day Canada.  Though a conquered British possession after the fall of Montréal, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them fellow Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  From the 1760s, members of the family could be found at Pointe-du-Lac, Louiseville, St.-Grégoire, Nicolet, Gentilly, and St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on the upper St. Lawrence; Barachois in Gaspésie; Shippagan, Caraquet, Nepisiguit, now Bathurst, Richibouctou, Grande-Digue, Shédiac, Cap-Pélé, and Memramcook in present-day eastern New Brunswick; Amherst and Nappan in northwestern Nova Scotia; Mont-Carmel, Egmont Bay, Cascumpec, and Rustico on St. John Island, renamed by the British St. John's Island and then Prince Edward Island; Margaree on the western coast of Cape Breton Island; and in the îles de la Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

At least one of them ended up on Martinique in the French Antilles, where she escaped British rule.  However, the Haché family at Fort Cumberland in 1763, like most of their kinsmen in the region, chose to remain in British-controlled greater Acadia. 

The only members of the family to go to Spanish Louisiana did so aboard at least two of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  In July 1785, the first of the Seven Ships, Le Bon Papa out of the Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, reached New Orleans with two sets of unmarried Haché sisters, all born in France, and an unmarried cousin.  Three of the sisters were daughters of Joseph Haché dit Gallant and Marie Dumont.  They may have followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge.  If so, they did not remain there.  Oldest sister Hélène married Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadians Michel David and Geneviève Hébert, at Cabahannocer downriver from Manchac in October 1788.  Third sister Élisabeth, or Isabelle, married Joseph, son of Claude-François Calandrot and Marie Rossetalon of France, at Cabahannocer in May 1794.  Second sister Marie-Josèphe married Antonio Ramirez, a Spaniard, perhaps an Isleño or Canary Islander, probably at San Bernardo, an  Isleños community on the river below New Orleans, in the late 1780s.  The second set of sisters aboard Le Bon Papa were daughters of Jacques Haché dit Gallant and Anne Boudrot.  They, too, followed their fellow passengers to Manchac, and they, too, did not remain there.  Older sister Marie-Jeanne, called Jeanne, married François, son of Charles Sevin and Marie Hugue of St.-Malo, a Frenchman, at nearby Baton Rouge in June 1787 and moved on to Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 52, she remarried to fellow Acadian Magloire-Simon Babin, a widower, in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1822 .  Younger sister Marguerite-Marie never married and died in St. James Parish, formerly Cabahannocer, on the river in October 1847, age 74.  Their first cousin Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Haché dit Gallant and Marie Clémenceau, married fellow Acadian Mathurin-Charles Heusé at San Gabriel on the river in November 1786, settled north of Bayou Manchac in the Baton Rouge District, and then moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

In November 1785, the fifth of the Seven Ships, L'Amitié, also out of Paimboeuf, reached New Orleans.  Aboard were several Haché families.  Anne-Marie Haché and her husband Jean-Charles Benoit settled at San Bernardo on the river below New Orleans, as did Madeleine-Apolline Haché, sister of Hélène et al.  Madeleine-Apolline came to the colony on L'Amitié with an aunt, Anne Olivier of Annapolis Royal, widow of her father's brother Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant.  Unlike her sisters, Madeleine-Apolline did not marry. 

The other Haché families that crossed on L'Amitié followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The family of Louis Haché of Île St.-Jean was led by his second wife, Françoise Doucet, age 46.  Louis did not take L'Amitié to the colony but came later.  With Françoise were son Pierre-Charles, age 10, and three orphans:  niece Marie-Anne Haché, age 19; and nephews Pierre-Alexis Haché, age 16; and Joseph-François Haché, age 10.  Marie-Anne married Frenchman Louis-Antoine Charrié of Nior, Poitou, at New Orleans in December 1785; Louis-Antoine also had crossed on L'Amitié.  After a brief respite in New Orleans, Françoise and her charges, along with Marie-Anne and her husband, settled on the upper Lafourche.  In December 1790, Marie-Anne remarried to Pierre de St. Angel of Québec, at Lafourche.  Nine years later, in May 1799, Marie-Anne remarried again--her third marriage--to Michel Barré of Montréal.  Meanwhile, Louis Haché joined his wife Françoise Doucet at Lafourche.  They had no more children in Louisiana, so Louis's line was perpetuated by his only son, Pierre-Charles.  Louis's Haché's nephews Pierre-Alexis and Joseph-François, the youngest sons of Louis's older brother Pierre, went with their aunt and uncle to the Lafourche, where Pierre-Alexis remained, but Joseph-François left the valley after he married and settled on Bayou Teche, west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Two of Louis's grandsons settled in Iberville Parish on the river in the early 1800s, but most of his descendants remained on Bayou Lafourche in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  

Another Haché family that crossed on L'Amitié was led by Jean-Baptiste-Charles, 22-year-old son of Jean-Charles Haché and his second wife Marie Hébert.  Jean-Baptiste-Charles had been born at Chantenay near Nantes.  His 20-year-old wife, Marie-Modeste Pinet dit Pinel, also had been born in France.  With them were Jean-Baptiste-Charles's sister Marie-Bonne, age 18; his brother Frédéric, age 15; and his infant daughter, Martina, or Martine, who had been born a week before the ship's departure from Paimboeuf in August (Martine was one of the Acadian infants baptized at New Orleans in late 1785 who was named in honor of Louisiana intendant Martin Navarro, who served as the childrens' honorary godfather and who the Acadians adored).  This family also went to the upper Lafourche, where Jean-Baptiste-Charles died before fathering any sons.  Sister Marie-Bonne did not remain at Lafourche but crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where she married Joseph dit Tito St. Germain of Fort Chartres, Illinois, in August 1788.  Brother Frédéric moved from the bayou to the river and probably never married.  Jean-Baptiste-Charles's widow, Marie-Modeste, remained on the upper Lafourche, where she remarried to fellow Acadian Jean-François, called François, Benoit, in September 1789.  Jean-Baptiste-Charles's daughter Martine survived childhood and married fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Thibodeaux, widower of Marie-Rose Damour, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in November 1804.  Jean-Baptiste Thibodeaux and his family also had emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Martine died in Lafourche Parish in July 1861, age 75--one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors. 

By the end of the colonial period, most of the Hachés were living on upper Bayou Lafourche in present-day Assumption Parish.  Although some of their descendants moved to the river in the early 1800s, the Bayou Lafourche valley remained the largest center of Achée family settlement.  Lafourche valley Achées also moved to the old Attakapas District during the early antebellum period, but not until after the War of 1861-65 did a line of the family set down roots on the western prairies. 

Local church records reveal no Hachés, other than Acadians, living in Louisiana during the colonial period.  A few non-Acadian Hachés, or families with names similar to Achée, into which the name Haché morphed, appear in South Louisiana records during the antebellum period, but their numbers never came close to matching their Acadian namesakes on the Lafourche and the Mississippi.  

Judging from the number of slaves they owned during the late antebellum period, the Achées participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  Jean Pierre Achée of Assumption Parish owned six slaves in 1850.  His younger brother Jean Baptiste, also of Assumption Parish, held two slaves that year.  But no Achée owned enough slaves (20) to be considered a planter.  Most members of the family, in fact, held no slaves at all. 

At least half a dozen Achées served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and at least one of them gave his life while doing it.  Two brothers from Iberville Parish--Jules and Rosémond--deserted their unit, the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry, in the final days of the war, but their cousins served honorably.  Léon Achée from Assumption Parish served in the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry as a junior second lieutenant before resigning his commission in September 1862.  Another Assumption Parish Achée--one of three brothers--served as a sergeant in the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which was part of General R. E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.  Jean Léopold Achée suffered such a serious wound at Malvern Hill, Virginia, in July 1862 that, after his recuperation, he was discharged from service.  His older brother Joseph Oscar served in the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, was wounded and captured at Henderson Hill, Louisiana, in March 1864, early in the Red River Campaign, and was held by the Federals at New Orleans until the following July.  Their youngest brother Bélisaire enlisted early in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, members of which styled themselves the Lafourche Creoles.  Bélisaire was promoted to corporal on 1 April 1862 and was killed in action five days later at Shiloh, Tennessee.  

During the war, successive Federal incursions devastated the Bayou Lafourche valley, where most of the Acadian Achées still lived.  Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  ...

In Acadia, the family's name was spelled Galland, Hachey, and Larché dit Gallant, as well as Haché dit Gallant (haché is French for hatchet).  In Canada, family members tend to use their ancestors' dit, Gallant, as their surname.  They are especially numerous on Prince Edward Island, where the family's pregenitor settled.  The original part of the family name is also spelled Ashee, Hache, Hachey, and Hachez in the provinces.  In Louisiana, the family's name evolved fromt Haché to Achée and is also spelled Achais, Aché, Acher, Achet, Ahhe, Hachet, Hachez, and Hacker there.60

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Seventeen members of the family came to Louisiana from France in 1785, most crossing on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  The Acadian Hachés/Achées of South Louisiana descend from three of them, an uncle and two nephews, who settled on the Lafourche and lower Bayou Teche: 

Louis (1741-?) Michel dit Gallant Achée

Louis, eighth son of Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant and Anne-Marie Gentil and grandson of the family's progenitor in Acadia, was born at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, in June 1741.  In late 1758, Louis survived the deportation to Cherbourg, France, and moved on to St.-Malo to be near his family at St.-Énogat across the harbor from the Breton port.  After being held as a prisoner of war in England in 1760-63 following his capture on a French corsair, Louis married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Thériot, in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1765.  She gave him two children, a son and a daughter, in the area:  Louis, fils born at St.-Servan in March 1766; and Marguerite-Yvonne at Quesny near Mégrit southwest of St.-Malo in September 1767 but died at St.-Servan age 1 1/2, in March 1769.  Wife Anne died at Mégrit in September 1767, age 23, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Louis remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Doucet and Marie Carret and widow of Alexis Renaud, at St.-Servan in February 1770.  She gave him two more children there:  Jean-François born in January 1771; and Osithe-Françoise-Thomasee in April 1772.  Louis took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Françoise gave him another son, Pierre-Charles, born at Châtellerault, in November 1774.  In December 1775, Louis, Françoise, and their four children, three sons and a daughter, retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  Françoise gave Louis four more children at nearby Chantenay:  Joseph born in May 1776 but died at age 1 1/2 in October 1777; Ange-Fréderic born in c1778 but died at age 2 1/2 in June 1780; Barbe-Michelle born in November 1779; and Jean-François in June 1781 but died at age 2 1/2 in February 1784--nine children, six sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1766 and 1781, many of whom died young.  Louis was the only member of his father's family to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana.  Wife Françoise, with one of their sons, two nephews, and a niece, crossed on L'Amitié, and Louis followed on a later vessel.  Sons Louis, fils and Jean-François and daughters Osithe and Barbe-Michelle, who, if they were still living, would have been ages 19, 14, 13, and 6 in 1785, did not accompany their family to Louisiana.  One suspects that most, if not all, of them also died young.  Louis, Françoise, and their son settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where she gave Louis no more children.  He died on the upper bayou after 1798, in his late 50s or early 60s.  His son created a vigorous line there. 

Third son Pierre-Charles, by second wife Françoise Doucet, followed his family to Nantes, New Orleans, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and Anne-Osite Landry of Cabahannocer on the river, in c1797.  Marie was a native of Louisiana whose father had come to the colony from Halifax in 1765 with the Broussards.  She and Pierre-Charles settled at Assumption, lived on the river for a time, and then returned to the bayou.  Their children, born on the upper bayou and the river, included Urbin in September 1798; Louis le jeune in November 1799; François-Marie in May 1801; Pierre-Sylvain or Simon, called Simon, at Ascension in December 1805; Onésime in November 1806; Marcellin in St. James Parish in January 1811; François Simon in January 1812 and baptized in St. Jean the Baptist Parish on the lower German Coast in September 1814; Rosémond born probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1810s; and Zéphirin in August 1815--nine children, all sons, between 1798 and 1815.  Pierre Charles died in Assumption Parish in July 1831, age 56 (the recording priest said 58).  Four of his sons married.

Oldest son Urbin married Azélie, also called Madeleine, 18-year-old daughter of fellows Acadian Benjamin Landry and Anne Landry, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1820.  They settled on upper bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Louis Urbin in July 1821 but died at age 15 months in October 1822; and Marie Céleste in November 1823.  Urbin remarried to Carmélite Placencia or Plaisance, probably an Isleño or Canary Islander probably in the late 1820s.  Their son Narcisse was baptized at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, age 4 months, in July 1829.  The birth of her son may have killed Carmélite.  Urbin remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite Domitille, called Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Dupuy and Henrietta LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in March 1829.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Clorinda in December 1829; Pierre in October 1831; Mélanie in the early 1830s; Marguerite Henriette, called Henriette, in January 1835; and Joseph in March 1836 but died a week after his birth--eight children, four sons and four daughters, by three wives, between 1821 and 1836.  Urbin died in December 1836, age 38 (the recording priest said 35).  Daughter Marie Céleste, by his first wife, may have married into the Dugas family, and daughters Mélanie and Henriette, by his third wife, married into the Housiaux, LeBlanc, and Geinglins families by 1870, one of them twice.  Only one of Urbin's sons married by then.  He settled on the river and the prairies.    

Third son Pierre, by third wife Domitille Dupuy, married Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse Hébert and his Creole wife Mary Virginia Langlois, at the Plaquemine church, Iberville Parish, in June 1854.  They settled near Placquemine on the west bank of the river before moving to the Teche valley after the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born there, included Jean Silezian in May 1856 but, called Jean Silentiel, died "at the point across from Plaquemine" at age 6 months in November; Pierre Rudolphe born in February 1859; Apollinaire in July 1861; Marie Virginie or Virginia in March 1864; Joseph Oscar in St. Martin Parish in March 1867; Paul in March 1870; ...  Daughter Marie Virginia married into the Cormier family at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1881; the priest who recorded the marriage noted that the bride's parents were deceased at the time of the wedding.  One of Pierre's sons may have married by 1870. 

Second son Pierre Rudolphe may have married Spanish Creole Mathilde Lopez, place and date unrecorded.  

Pierre-Charles's fourth son Simon married Colette Bathilde, also called Belotte and Marie Colette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Landry and Scholastique Templet, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Désiré Simon in May 1837; Oristille or Aurestile Forestal in December 1838; Eugénie in October 1840; Joseph Gervile in September 1842; Simon Pierson, called Pierson, in September 1846; Marie Clémentine in August 1849; Marguerite Ultima Pauline in May 1851 but, called Marie Tilma, died at age 2 in July 1853; Constant Camille born in December 1854; Ernest Adrien in March 1860; ...  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 49-year-old black male--on Simon Achée's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughter Eugénie married into the Barbier family by 1870.  One of Simon's sons married also married by then. 

Fourth son Simon Pierson, called Pierson, married Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Boudreaux and his Creole wife Émilie Wanney, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1869.  Daughter Marie Émelie was born near Paincourtville in May 1870; ... Pierson remarried to Marguerite Bennett , place and date unrecorded, and moved to St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, during the late 1800s.  

Pierre-Charles's fifth son Onésime married Marie Zéolide or Zéolite, daughter of fellow Acadians Lubin LeBlanc and Marie Mélanie Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in October 1828.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Mélanie Éliza in March 1831 but, called Marie Mélanie, died at age 18 in June 1849; Malvina or Melvina Eulalie, called Eulalie, in June 1832 but died at age 1 in June 1833; Marie Elesine born in March 1835; Euphémie died at age 1 month in February 1836; Marie Arselie or Arselia, called Arselia, born in May 1836[sic]; Marie Célesie May 1839 but, called Marie Seresine, died at age 4 in September 1843; Joseph Serverin or Séverin born in February 1841 but, called Séverin, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in July 1849; Eulalie born in September 1843; Marie Azémilla in January 1846 but, called Asimia, died near Paincourtville, age 5 1/2, in July 1851; Paul Théolin or Théophile, called Théophile, born in January 1848; and Marie Augustine in February 1857--11 children, nine daughters and two sons, between 1831 and 1857.  Daughters Arselia and Eulalie married into the Dugas and Simoneaux families by 1870.  Onésime's remaining son also married by then. 

Younger son Théophile married Alida, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Blanchard and Élisa Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in June 1867. ...

Pierre-Charles's eighth son Rosémond married Marie Claire, called Claire and Clara, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Doiron and his Creole wife Catherine Paille, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1834.  They settled in Iberville Parish near his older brother Urbin.  Their children, born there, included a son, name and unrecorded, died an infant near St. Gabriel in August 1835; Marie June born in October 1836; Sébastien in September 1839 but died at age 1 in October 1840; Valsin born in December 1840; Rosémond, fils in November 1842; Théodule, also called Jules, in March 1845; Émile in December 1846; Marie Zéolide in January 1849; and Carmélite Alezia near Plaquemine in November 1850--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1835 and 1850.  Rosémond's daughters did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

During the War of 1861-65, fourth son Rosémond, fils served in Companies A and C of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in East Baton Rouge Parish, which served in Louisiana.  He deserted his unit late in the war and was captured by the Federals.  Rosémond, fils married Louisiana Husiaux or Housiaux at the Plaquemine church in July 1868.  Daughter Marie Eliska was born near Plaquemine in July 1869; ...

Rosémond, père's fifth son Théodule, also called Jules, married Evelina, daughter of Jérôme Toups and Marie Marguerite Brown, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1864.  During the war, Jules, as he was called in Confeferate service records, also was a member of Companies A and C of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry who deserted his unit in the last days of the war and returned to this family.  He remarried to Marie Uranie, daughter of Omer Antoine Langlois and Virginia Langlois, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1867. ...

Jean-Baptiste-Charles (1762-c1786) à Jospeh dit Gallant à Michel dit Gallant Achée

Jean-Baptiste-Charles, called Jean-Charles, elder son of Jean-Charles Haché and his second wife Marie Hébert, born in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, France, in December 1762, was a sailor in France.  He evidently followed his family to the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade, among the few Acadians who went there before 1775-76.  He married Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Pinet dit Pinel and Anne-Marie Durel, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in November 1784.  Their daughter Martine was born at Nantes or its lower port of Paimboeuf in August 1785, a week before their ship's departure.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jean-Charles died probably in c1786, age 24, soon after their arrival.   Daughter Martine married into the Thibodeaux family, so the blood of the family line endured. 

Frédéric  (c1770-1839) à Jospeh dit Gallant à Michel dit Gallant Achée

Frédéric, younger son of Jean-Charles Haché and his second wife Marie Hébert, born at Nantes, France, in c1770, followed his older brother Jean-Baptiste-Charles and other relatives to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, but he did not remain there.  During the late colonial or early antebellum period, he moved to what became Iberville Parish, where he died near St. Gabriel in March 1839.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Frédéric, "nat. of Nantes, France," died at "age 80 yrs."  He probably was closer to 70.  Evidently he did not marry. 

Pierre-Alexis (1768-c1818) à Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant à Michel dit Gallant Achée

Pierre-Alexis, called Alexis, elder son of Pierre Haché and his third wife Madeleine Dingle, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in March 1768, may have followed his uncle Louis Haché to Poitou in 1773 and to Nantes in December 1775.  He, a younger brother, and an older half-sister followed his paternal aunt Françoise Doucet, second wife of his uncle Louis, to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  After his uncle Louis reached the colony on a later vessel, Alexis and his brother followed his uncle and aunt from New Orleans to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Alexis married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dantin and his French wife Jeanne Gesmier, at Assumption in June 1795.  Anne, a native of Nantes, France, also had come to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié.  She and Alexis settled down bayou in what became Interior and then Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Jean-Pierre baptized at Assumption, age not given, in December 1796; Jean-Baptiste born in c1798; Achille in January 1799; Rosalie in May 1800; Carmélite in December 1801; Célestin in March 1805; Adélaïde Aspasie in September 1806; Sophie Arthémise in February 1810; Eugénie Emélissene or Arthémise in June 1817; and Joseph François le jeune, called François, in July 1818--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1796 and 1818.  Pierre Alexis's succession inventory, naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1818.  He would have been age 50 that year.  Daughters Rosalie, Carmélite, Adélaïde Aspasie, and Eugénie married into the Pitre, Roger, Ledet, Usé, and Malbrough families.  Three of Pierre Alexis's sons also married, but only one of the lines endured.  It was a vigorous one. 

Oldest son Jean Pierre married Rosalie Ayraud or Aymond, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the late 1820s or early 1830s.  They settled in Ascension, St. James, Assumption, and Lafourche Interior parishes on the river and the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Oscar, also called Oscar J., in Ascension Parish in November 1833; Pierre Théar or Théard in April 1835; Jean Marie Louis in St. James Parish in April 1837; Jean Léopolde or Léopold, called Léopold and Jean Marie Léon, in Ascension Parish in February 1839; Bélisaire Clément in St. James Parish in September 1840; Jérôme Kleber or Clebert, called Clebert, in June 1842; Catherine Manette in Ascension Parish in July 1845[sic]; Marie Geneviève in December 1845[sic]; Rosalie Jeanvier in 1845 or 1846 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 3 1/2, in June 1847; Benjamin Elphége, called Elphége, born in November 1846; Pierre Ernest in July 1848 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 2 1/2, in February 1851; François Silvestre born in October 1851; William Prosper near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in June 1852; Lucien Augustin in July 1853; and Antoine Anathole born in November 1855--15 children, a dozen sons and three daughters, between 1833 and 1855.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish, counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 40 years to 9 months--on Jean Pierre Achée's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughter Catherine Manette married into the Munch family by 1870.  Five of Jean Pierre's sons also married by then.  One of Jean-Pierre's sons died at Shiloh during the War of 1861-65 before he could marry. 

Oldest son Joseph Oscar, also called Oscar J., married Élina, daughter of Joseph Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Clémense Bergeron and widow of Terence LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1857.  Their children, born in Assumption Parish, included Joseph Samuel in October 1858; and Rosalie Clémence in December 1860.  During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Oscar served in Company H of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  In March 1864, at the beginning of the Red River campaign, he was captured along with his unit at Henderson Hill and spent some time in a U.S. army hospital at New Orleans, so he may have been wounded in action.  He was exchanged the following July.  After the war, Joseph Oscar may have crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and moved to St. Martin Parish, where he remarried to Amelie Courville, date unrecorded.  Their daughters were born near Breaux Bridge in St. Martin Parish.  Joseph Oscar's children did not marry by 1870. 

Jean-Pierre's second son Pierre Théard may have married Natalie Quarantin, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Osémé was born near Paincourtville in February 1853.  Pierre remarried to Rosalie Amanda, daughter of Amand Bernard, a German Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Clémence Roger, at the Thibodaux church in September 1855.  They lived on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élise in October 1856; Louis Philibert in November 1858, Joseph William Bélisaire in August 1866, Pierre Samuel in December 1868; ...  

Jean-Pierre's fourth son Jean Léopold, called Léopold, Jean Marie Léon, and Léon, married Marie Adolphine, called Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Pitre and his Creole wife Matilde Adélaïde Marse, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1859.  During the war, Jean Léopold served as a sergeant in Company K of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Jean Léopold was seriously wounded in the Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, in July 1862.  He was sent to hospitals at Lynchburg and Danville to recuperate.  In November 1862, he was placed on a list of soldiers unfit for duty, demoted to private, discharged for disability, and allowed to go home.  His and Adolphine's children, born on the upper bayou, included Mathilde Rosalie in December 1863; André Courade in November 1867; ... 

During the war, Jean-Pierre's fifth son Bélisaire Clément served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  He enlisted in the company at Camp Moore, Louisiana, on 5 October 1861, age 21, and was promoted to corporal on 1 April 1862.  Five days later, he was killed in action in the Battle of Shiloh near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. 

Jean-Pierre's sixth son Jérôme Kleber or Clebert, called Clebert, married Aimée, daughter of John Burnes and Amelia Porche, at the Labadieville church in June 1864.  Daughter Mary Luvinia was born near Labadieville in March 1865; ...

Jean-Pierre's seventh son Benjamin Elphége, called Elphége, married Florence, daughter of François Barthet and his Acadian wife Irma Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in May 1870. ...

Alexis's second son Jean Baptiste married Marie Ursule, daughter of Antoine Boutary and his Acadian wife Marie Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1820.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Pauline in February 1821 but, called Marie Delphine, died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in October 1823; and Adèle Séraphine born in March 1822 but died at age 1 in March 1823.  In December 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted two slaves--a 30-year-old black male, and a 27-year-old black female--on J. B. Achée's farm near Thibodaux.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Parish in August 1855.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 62 when he died.  He probably was closer to 57.  A "petition for homologation of will," naming his wife, was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in September 1856.  His daughters did not survive childhood, and he seems to have fathered no sons, so the family line may not have endured.  

Alexis's fifth and youngest son Joseph François le jeune, called François, married Marie Clarisse, daughter of Maurice Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Geneviève Landry, at the Plattenville church in April 1833.  They settled in the old Attakapas District near his namesake uncle but returned to the upper Lafourche by the 1840s.  Their children, born perhaps on the upper bayou and on the prairies, included Élène or Hélène was born in 1834 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 15 months, in December 1835; Marie Premise born in Lafayette Parish in April 1838; Clarisse in October 1840; and Marie Florence in Assumption Parish in April 1844--four children, all daughters, between 1834 and 1844.  Joseph François le jeune died in St. Martin Parish in September 1859, age 41.  His succession, in which the parish clerk called him Joseph Hatchet, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse two days after his death.  None of his daughters married by 1870.  He seems to have fathered no sons, so one wonders if the family line endured. 

Joseph-François (1772-1831) à Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant à Michel dit Gallant Achée

Joseph-François, also called Joseph dit Canawche, younger son of Pierre Haché and his third wife Madeleine Dingle, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in June 1772, may have followed his uncle Louis Haché to Poitou in 1773 and to Nantes in December 1775.  Joseph, an older brother, and an older half-sister followed his paternal aunt Françoise Doucet, second wife of his uncle Louis, to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  After his uncle Louis reached the colony on a later vessel, Joseph and his brother followed his uncle and aunt from New Orleans to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph-François married Anne-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Célestin dit Bellemère, at Ascension in January 1803.  Geneviève, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, had come to Louisiana also as an orphan with four of her siblings aboard an earlier ship.  They did not remain on the upper Lafourche.  In the 1800s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the lower Teche, included Jean Pierre at Assumption in September 1804; Marie Arthémise in December 1805; Anne Rosalie, called Rosalie, in July 1806; and Célestine Adélaïde in November 1810 but died at age 4 1/2 in July 1815--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1804 and 1810.  Geneviève, called Marie by the St. Martinville priest who recorded her burial, died at the home of Nicolas LeBlanc at Fausse Pointe in August 1812. age 30.  Joseph François remarried to Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard and widow of Donat Breaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in October 1819.  She seems to have given him no more children.  Joseph Francois died in Lafayette Parish in December 1831.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph, as he called him, was age 55 when he died.  He was 59.  Daughters Marie and Rosalie, by his first wife, married into the Daigle, Hébert, and L'ascange or Lascoureiges families.  Son Jean-Pierre accompanied his family to the Attakapas District, but he may not have married, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Allain

Louis Allain, a blacksmith, born probably in France in c1654, arrived at Port-Royal in c1685.  In July 1687, the seigneur of Port-Royal, Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, gave Louis permission to build a sawmill near the village.  A tributary of the lower Rivière-au-Dauphin, on which Port-Royal was located, took its name from the sawmill operator--Rivière Allain.  Around 1690, Louis married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry.  Louis died at Annapolis Royal in June 1737, in his early 80s.  His only daughter married into the Gauthier dit Bellaire family.  Louis's son-in-law, Joseph-Nicolas, called Nicolas, Gauthier dit Bellair, became a wealthy Annapolis valley merchant whose estate on haute rivière, Bellaire, was one of the most impressive in the colony.  During King George's War of the 1740s, Nicolas joined the Acadian resistance against the British, for which Marie and their son Nicolas, fils, spent time in the Fort Anne dungeon.  In 1749, his fortune gone, Nicolas dit Bellair took Marie and their children to Île St.-Jean, where the French compensated him with two pieces of property on Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  Nicolas died there in April 1752, age 63.  Marie did not remarry.  Meawhile, Louis Allain's only son Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Marie Bourgeois, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1717 and settled at Minas.  Pierre's oldest son Louis le jeune moved to Petitcoudiac, but his younger sons--Pierre, fils, Joseph-Antoine, Benjamin, and Jean-Baptiste--remained at Minas.  By 1755, descendants of Louis Allain, the blacksmith and sawmill owner, and Marguerite Bourg could be found not only in the Annapolis River valley, where Louis had done so well, but also at Minas, at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and on Île St.-Jean. 

When the British rounded up the Acadians at Chignecto and the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755, Pierre Allain's oldest son Louis le jeune and his wife Anne Léger fled north to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they took refuge with hundreds of other Acadians.  Over the next few years, they made their way up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  When the British attacked the French stronghold at Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge, in late June 1760, Louis le jeune and his family escaped another roundup.  After the war, his descendants could be found at Bouctouche, Miramichi, Néguac, and Caraquet on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in what became eastern New Brunswick.  Meanwhile, Pierre's third son Benjamin and his wife Marie-Rose Bugeaud had escaped the British at Minas in 1755 and also fled northward.  When the British struck Restigouche, Benjamin was serving as a captain in the Acadian militia.  He and his family were forced to surrender to a second British force, this one from Québec, in late October, and likely were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  After the war, they also chose to remain in greater Acadia.  They resettled at Carleton in the British-controlled fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baies des Chaleur, east of Restigouche, and there they remained.  Pierre's youngest son Jean-Baptiste, age 14 in 1755, escaped the British roundup at Minas and took refuge in Canada.  He married Marguerite dite La Branche, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cormier and Marie Cyr of Chignecto, at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence in January 1762.  In the decades following exile, some of Jean-Baptiste's descendants moved downriver to St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu northeast of Montréal.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

Pierre, fils and his wife Catherine Hébert were not as lucky as his brothers.  The British rounded them up at Minas in the summer of 1755 and deported them to Maryland.  For a dozen years, Pierre and his family endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  In July 1763, Pierre, fils, Catherine, and their children, two sons and a daughter appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  Pierre Allain, fils had no close relatives in Louisiana, nor did his wife, but life had to be better there than in a British colony where they were treated like pariahs.  In April 1767, as part of the second contingent of Maryland Acadians to head to the Spanish colony, the Allains booked passage on the English ship Virgin with 200 other exiles.  With Pierre and the Baltimore Acadians went a precious package, still carefully hidden, that the Minas exiles had carried with them during their 12-year exile. 

After reaching New Orleans in July 1767, Pierre, Catherine, and their five children settled at the new Spanish settlement of San Gabriel on the east bank of the river south of Bayou Manchac, below Baton Rouge.  Their two daughters married into the Landry and Forest families.  The Acadian Allains of South Louisiana descend from two of Pierre, fils's three sons, whose descendants settled largely in Iberville, East Baton Rouge, and West Baton Rouge parishes, on both sides of the river. 

On the eve of the War of 1861-65, one of his grandsons held 18 slaves.  Other grandsons owned fewer slaves on their humble Iberville Parish farms.  Two grandsons moved upriver to the Baton Rouge area.  Two more left the river and moved to Bayou Lafourche, where one of them held seven slaves on the eve of the war.  Many members of the family, however, held no slaves at all.

When the Acadian Allains came to Louisiana from Maryland in July 1767, an Allain family was well established in Pointe Coupée, a French-Creole enclave on the river above New Orleans.  Jean-François Allain, fils of Touraine, France, was appointed commandant of the Pointe Coupée District in February 1770.  His two older sons, Jean-François III and Augustin, who married sisters from the prominent Ricard family, also served as officers in the Pointe Coupée militia.  Jean-François III and Augustin went on to create sturdy branches of their family tree.  Jean-François III's sons moved downriver to West Baton Rouge Parish, while Augustin's sons remained in Pointe Coupee Parish.  This Creole branch of the family fared very well during the antebellum period.  Jean-François III's youngest son, Sosthène, held 113 slaves on his West Baton Rouge Parish plantation in 1850.  Ten years later, the federal census taker counted 158 slaves in 30 houses on Sosthène's holdings in the parish.  Two of Jean-François III's grandsons also owned dozens of slaves on their West Baton Rouge plantations in the decade before the war.  Augustin's sons and grandsons owned only a hand full of slaves on their humble Pointe Coupee farms.  

At least 20 members of both the French-Creole and Acadian branches of the Allain family served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  None of them served as officers, but a number of them were corporals and sergeants.  Two great-grandsons of Pierre, fils the Acadian served as first sergeants of their companies, one while still in his teens.  Extant military records show that all of the Allains in the Confederate army survived the war.  

The war took a terrible toll on the families' economic standing.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal commands controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  This included the vast Creole Allain holdings in West Baton Rouge Parish and the more humble Acadian ones in Iberville Parish.  Union gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantation houses along the river.  Successive Federal incursions in the Bayou Lafourche valley devastated that region, and Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Alain, Alin, Aling.  The Acadian and French-Creole Allains should not be confused with the Anglo-American Allens who lived in their communities.63 

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Only one family of Acadian Allains emigrated to Louisiana, from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1767.  They settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  A robust family line came of it:  

Pierre, fils (c1723-1807) à Louis Allain

Pierre, fils, second son of Pierre Allain and Marguerite LeBlanc, born at Minas in c1723, married Catherine, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, probably at Grand-Pré in c1750.  Catherine gave Pierre, fils two children there:  Jean-Baptiste in c1751; and Marguerite in c1752.  The British deported them to Maryland in 1755.  Catherine gave Pierre, fils three more children at Baltimore:  Simon born in 1760; Pierre III in 1764; and Bibianne in September 1766.  In 1767, from New Orleans, Pierre, fils took his family to San Gabriel, where Catherine gave him two more daughters:  another Marguerite born in October 1771; and Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine in March 1774--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1751 to 1774, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  Pierre, fils died at St. Gabriel in December 1807, age 85.  Daughters Marguerite, Bibianne, and Madeleine married into the Landry, Forest, and Hébert families in the Spanish colony.  Pierre, fils's three sons also created their own families, and two of the lines endured on the river. All of the Acadian Allains of South Louisiana, in fact, descend from Pierre, fils's two older sons. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, followed his parents to Maryland, New Orleans, and San Gabriel, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians René Blanchard and Marguerite Thériot, in c1780.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Jean-Baptiste, fils in July 1781; Pierre le jeune in October 1782; Marie-Elyde in September 1784; Marie-Marguerite in January 1786; Landry in May 1787 but died at age 3 in August 1790; Bernard-Sosthène or Sosthène-Bernard born in September 1789; and another Jean-Baptiste, fils born posthumously in July 1791--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1781 and 1791.  Jean-Baptiste, père died at San Gabriel in March 1791, age 40.  The priest who recorded the burial noted that Jean-Baptiste was "major domo" of the church.   Daughter Marie Marguerite married into the Rivas family.  Three of Baptiste's sons married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, at age 25, married Marguerite Céleste, called Céleste or Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Guidry and Marguerite Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1806.  Their son Jean Derosin, called Derosin or Drauzin, was born in Iberville Parish in April 1807.  Jean Baptiste, fils remarried to Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Ludevine Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1811.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Emélie in August 1812; Marie Lucille, called Lucille, in December 1820; and Jean Baptiste Aimé in September 1825--four children, two sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1807 and 1825.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Iberville Parish in January 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean Baptiste was age 55 when he died.  He was 43.  Daughters Marie Émilie and Lucile, by his second wife, married into the Miremont, LeBlanc, and Allain families by 1870.  Jean Baptiste, fils's two sons also married by then, but only one of the lines may have endured. 

Older son Jean Derosin, called Derosin or Drauzin, from first wife Céleste Guidry, married Marie Dartille, called Dartille, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Hébert and Ludevine Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1826.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Jean de Valcourt in June 1827 but drowned in Bayou Plaquemine at age 15 in July 1842; Marie Herminie born in January 1829 but, according to a church record, died the following June; another Marie Herminie born in February 1830; and Marie Lea in March 1835 but died 13 days after her birth.  Derosin remarried to Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Landry and Clémence Richard, at the St. Gabriel church in December 1837.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included a child, named and age unrecorded, baptized at St. Gabriel in December 1837 and, called J.G.W. by the recording priest, with no reference to the child's gender, died at age 4 months in February 1838; Marie Célestine Aglaé born in March 1839; Marie Emma in October 1840 but died at age 1 in November 1841; Jean Baptiste Sosthène born in November 1842; ...  At age 45, Derosin remarried again--his third marriage--to Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier LeBlanc and Madeleine Braud, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1852.  They remained on the upper Lafourche.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Bruly St. Martin Ward 11, Assumption Parish, counted a single slave--a 17-year-old mulatto female--on Wm. Drauzin Allain's farm.  Daughter Hermina, by his first wife, married into the Picou family.  Derosin's remaining son did not marry by 1870.   

Jean-Baptiste, fils's younger son Jean Baptiste Aimé, by second wife Carmélite Landry, married Odile, daughter of Alexander Étienne Reine and Marguerite Poché of St. James Parish, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1844.  Jean Baptiste Aimé died in Iberville Parish in June 1848, age 22.  His line of the family died with him.  

Baptiste's second son Pierre le jeune, at age 25, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1807.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Céleste in December 1808; Pierre Ursin, called Ursin, in April 1811; and Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, in August 1817 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1819--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1808 and 1817.  Pierre le jeune's son married, but his line did not endure. 

Only son Ursin married cousin Emilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Allain, fils and Marguerite Céleste Guidry, his uncle and aunt, and widow of Pierre Miremont, probably in Iberville Parish.  Ursin died at the home of Célestin Roth, Iberville Parish, in December 1858.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Ursin was "a local person" and was age 51 he died.  He was 47.  He seems to have fathered no sons, so his line of the family died with him.   

Baptiste's third son Bernard Sosthène, at age 27, married cousin Apollonie or Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Blanchard and Marie Madeleine Richard, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1817; Apollonie's father was a nephew of Bernard Sosthène's mother.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Apolline, called Apolline, in February 1818; Marie Victorine in March 1820; Bernard, fils in August 1821 but, according to a church record, died at age 8 months in November 1823 (this was his younger brother); and Jean Zénon born in April 1823 but died the following November--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1818 and 1823.  Daughters Marie Apolline and Marie Victorine married into the Blanchard and Arceneaux families.  Bernard Sosthène's remaining son also married.  

Older son Bernard, fils married Euphémie, daughter of Louis Édouard Guitteau and Joséphine Pignoux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1842.  A daughter, name unrecorded, died "3 or 4 hours" after her birth in September 1843.  Bernard, fils remarried to Marie Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Dupuy and Sophie Daigle, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1846.  They settled in St. Gabriel Parish near the boundary with Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Sosthènes Bernard le jeune born in July 1847; Antoine Roger in December 1848; Sophie Victoria in February 1851; Marie Élodie in December 1852; and Mathilde Apolline in March 1855.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted 18 slaves--10 males and 8 females, 16 blacks and 2 mulattoes, ranging in age from 55 to infancy--owned by "Blanchard Allain," probably Bernard Sosthène and his wife Apollonie.  At age 39, Bernard, fils remarried--his third marriage--to Henrietta Anne, daughter of Trasimond Richard and and his Creole wife Uranie Pujol, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1861.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Henrietta in January 1863; B., a daughter, age unrecorded, died in October 1867; ...  None of Bernard, fils's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Older son Sosthènes Bernard le jeune, by second wife Élosie Dupuy, married Ann Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Arvillien Breaux and Anne Selina Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1868. ...

Pierre, fils's second Simon followed his parents to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Babin and Isabelle LeBlanc, at Pointe Coupée across the river in July 1785.  The priest who recorded the marriage noted that the couple "came [to Pointe Coupée]  from Manchac to be married, as there was no priest there."  Although San Gabriel had a parish of its own since 1773, Manchac to the north across the eponymous bayou evidently was not part of San Gabriel parish in 1785.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Jean-Baptiste le jeune died two days after his birth in August 1786; Marie-Hélène born in January 1788; Janvier in January 1790; Marie-Anne in November 1791; Adélaïde in November 1793; Siméon in September 1797 but died at age 39 in June 1837; Jean-Julien, called Julien, born in June 1802; Élisabeth in March 1805 but died at age 5 in June 1810; and Victor or Victorin born in April 1807--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1786 and 1807.  Simon died at St. Gabriel in October 1809, age 49.  Daughters Marie Hélène and Adélaïde married into the LeBlanc and Hébert families.  Three of Simon's sons also married on the river. 

Second son Janvier married Élise Mary, Marie Elizabeth, or Mary Eliza, called Elizabeth, daughter of Irishman Jean Louis Bouche, Boush, or Bush and Hélène Hamilton, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1817; Elizabeth was a sister of Clarisse Boush, who married Valéry Hébert and was the mother of future Confederate General Louis Hébert.  Janvier and Elizabeth's children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Clément in November 1817 but, called Clément, died at age 2 in October 1819; Albert born in April 1819; Marie Euphémie in August 1820; another Clément in November 1821 but died at age 3 1/2 in January 1825; a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 3 weeks in January 1826; Louis Sylvain, called L. S. and Louis Silva, born in February 1827; Marie Eliza, called Eliza, in December 1828; Marie Adeline in December 1830; Louis Sylvestre in December 1832; Simon Erneste or Ernest, called Ernest, in January 1835; Victor Amédée, called Amédée, in March 1837; and Faustin or Faustée Alcée, called F. Alcée and F. A., in October 1844--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1817 and 1844.  Janvier died in Iberville Parish in June 1852, age 62.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge parish, counted seven slaves--four males and three females, two blacks and five mulattoes, ranging in age from 46 to 4--on Janvier Allain's farm.  Daughters Marie Euphémie, Eliza, and Marie Adeline married into the Gallaugher, Comeaux, and Daigre families by 1870.  Four of Janvier's sons also married by then, and one, perhaps two, of them left the river and settled on Bayou Lafourche.  

Second son Albert married Marie Elisa or Eliza, called Eliza, daughter of fellow Acadian Lazare Landry and his Creole wife Marie Céline Lambremont, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1842.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Albert Numa in November 1842; Marie Célina, called Célina, in January 1844; Louis Dustine in November 1845 but, called Louis Dutisne, died at age 4 1/2 in April 1850; Louisa Victoria born in April 1847 but, called Louise Victoire, died at age 1 (the recording priest said "age 11 years, 3 months") in March 1848; and Eugénie Eliska, called Eliska, born in February 1849.  Albert remarried to Arzelia, daughter of Joseph Barthélémy Ramouin and his Acadian wife Amélie Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1852.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Guy in October 1852 but died at age 7 months the following May; Marie Adeline, called Adeline, born in September 1854; Émilie Althée in August 1856; Euphémie in September 1859; Angélique Florestine in February 1861; Marie Eda in February 1863; ...  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted a single slave--a 38-year-old black female--on Albert Allain's farm; he worked as a carpenter.  None of his children married by 1870, when they were living near Bouttée Station in St. Charles Parish. 

Janvier's fourth son Louis Sylvain or Silva married Clara E., daughter of Henri Knobloch and his Acadian wife Rosalie Guidry of Lafourche Interior Parish, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1851.  They remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Louisa Olivia in August 1852; Marie Amanda in January 1854; twins Mathilde Ada and Thérèse Emma in October 1856; Catherine Andette in April 1858; Louis Hamilton in February 1860; Clara Eugénie in October 1861; Marie Ermine in August 1864; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish, counted seven slaves--three males and four females, five blacks and two mulattoes, ranging in age from 38 years to 3 months, living in one house--on L. S. Allain's farm in the parish's War 7.  During the War of 1861-65, Louis Sylvain, a first cousin of Confederate General Louis Hébert, served as a corporal in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  Louis Sylvain's younger brother Simon Ernest also served in that company.  Louis Sylvain survived the war, returned to his family, and, called Louis by the recording priest, remarried to Amanda, daughter of Louis Bush and Hélène Hamilton, at the Thibodaux church in January 1866; Amanda would have been Louis Sylvain's maternal aunt!  His and Amanda's son Ernest was born near Baton Rouge in October 1869; ...  Louis Sylvain died in Lafourche Parish in 1878, age 51.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Janvier's sixth son Ernest, during the war, served as a sergeant in Company E of the 4th Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, so he may have followed older brother Louis Sylvain to Bayou Lafourche.  He was wounded at Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862 and captured at Nashville in December 1864.  Did he survive the war?

Janvier's seventh son Victor Amédée, called Amédée, married Virginia Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Denis Daigre and his Anglo-American wife Geneviève Buckner, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1863.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Mary Lilian in March 1865; Stella Cécilia in September 1867; ...

Janvier's eighth and youngest son Faustin Alcée, also called F. Alcée, during the war, served as first sergeant of Company H of Ogden's Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, which fought in Louisiana and Mississippi.  After the war, he married Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Gilbert Comeaux and his wife Creole wife Adeline Gallaugher, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1865.  Daughter Mary Estella was born near Baton Rouge in August 1866.  "Mrs. Alcée Allain" died at age "ca. 20 years" near Baton Rouge in September 1866.  This probably was Faustin Aclée's wife Ernestine, who evidently died from the rigors of childbirth.  Faustin remarried to Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadians Frédéric Arbour, fils and Adeleine Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1868.  Their chldren, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Coecilia in March 1869; Frédéric Vincent in August 1870; ...

Simon's fourth son Julien married Marie Alphonse Hortense, called Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon, at the St. Gabriel church in March 1827.  Their children, born in St. Gabriel Parish, included Marie Zéolide in December 1827 but, called Zéolide, died at age 4 in December 1831; Marie Zoé, called Zoé, born in February 1830; Julien, fils in October 1832; a son, name unrecorded, died as an infant in April 1835; Emma Catherine born in November 1836 but died at age 1 year, 9 months in September 1838; Marie Léocadie born in May 1839 but died at age 18 1/2 in September 1857; Élodie born in May 1842; and Alphonse in August 1846 but died at age 15 months in December 1847--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1827 and 1846.  Julien died in Iberville Parish in August 1849, age 47.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 35, 20, and 5--on Hortense Allain's farm.  This was Julien, père's widow, Hortense LeBlanc.  Daughter Zoé married into the Redditt family from Tennessee by 1870.  Julien's remaining son also married by then. 

Oldest son Julien, fils married Marie Dina, called Dina, daughter of Foreign Frenchman François Dupuy and his Creole wife Françoise Rose Desbains, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1858.  Their children, born near Plaquemine on the west side of the river, included Marie Léocadie in July 1859; Antoine Arthur in May 1861; Marie Ella in July 1864; Anne Cécile in June 1867; Joseph Charles in February 1869; ...  During the war, Julien, fils served as first sergeant of Company D of the 27th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As the births of his younger children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Simon's fifth and youngest son Victor or Victorin married Marie Françoise Aimée, called Marie Aimée and Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Arsène Breaux and Marie Geneviève Daigre, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1830.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Aimée, evidently also called Emma and Marie Elina, in May 1832; Victorin, fils in April 1834; Simon Aimé or Émile in July 1839; and Marie Zulma, called Zulma, in August 1841--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1832 and 1841.  Victorin, père, called Victorien dit Victor, died in Iberville Parish in July 1845, age 38, and was buried in St. Raphael's cemetery on the west side of the river.  Daughters Emma/Marie Élina and Zulma married into the Landry, Rivière, and Hébert and families by 1870.  Both of Victorin's sons also married by then. 

Older son Victorin, fils married cousin Armina, daughter of Rosémond Lambremont and his Acadian wife Clémentine Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1856.  Their children, born near Bayou Goula on the west side of the river, included Victorin Antonio in September 1857; Rosémond Nemours in July 1859, and Joseph Olivier and Pierre Marcellin, probably twins, in August 1861--four children, all sons, including a set of twins, between 1857 and 1861.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted a single slave--a 22-year-old black female--on "Victorian" Allain's farm.  During the war, Victorin, fils served as a courier in Company I of the 2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Louisiana.  According to family tradition, he visited his home near Bayou Goula as often as he could and was nearly captured by Federal patrols on at least two of these visits.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?

Victorin, père's younger son Simon Aimé, called Simon Émile by the recording priest, married Mary Josephine, daughter of Ulger Baugnon and Lavinia Marionneaux, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1867. ... 

Pierre, fils's third and youngest son Pierre III followed his parents to New Orleans and San Gabriel.  He married Geneviève-Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand-Paul Gautreaux and Marie Landry, downriver at Ascension in February 1786.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Pierre IV in February 1787 but died at age 31 in March 1818; Marguerite-Collette, called Collette, born in March 1789 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1790; and Pierre Landry, called Landry, in the early 1790s--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1787 and the early 1790s.  Pierre III died by July 1792, in his late 20s, when his wife remarried at San Gabriel.  One of his sons married, but his family line, except for its blood, may not have survived in the Bayou State. 

Younger son Landry married fellow Acadian Rosalie Templet probably in the early 1810s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Rosaline Anne in March 1811; and Célestin in September 1813.  Landry remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Daigre and Marie Henry, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1818.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge and in Iberville Parish, included Clémentine in July 1819; Apollinaire in January 1822 but died at age 15 in November 1837; and Aureline born in January 1826--five children, by two wives, between 1811 and 1826.  Daughters ..., by both wives, married the Bourque, Lejeune, and Thibodeaux families.  One of Landry's sons also married, but the line did not endure. 

Older son Célestin, by first wife Rosalie Templet, married Marie Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux and his Creole wife Jeanne LeTullier of West Baton Rouge Parish, probably in West Baton Rouge Parish in March 1836.  Their daughter Marie Analyese or Analise was born in West Baton Rouge Parish in January 1837.  Célestin died in West Baton Rouge Parish in September 1837, age 24 (the recording priest said 26).  Daughter Marie Analise married a Tuillier cousin.  Célestine fathered no sons, so his line of the family likely died with him. 

Arbour

Michel, fils, son of Michel Harbour or Arbour and Marie Constantineau, born at Petite-Rivière-St.-Charles, Québec, in c1674, married Barbe, daughter of Acadians Pierre Morin and Françoise Chiasson of Chignecto and Gaspésie, in c1700, probably at Québec.  Michel, fils was age 26 and Barbe age 14 at the time of their marriage.  Michel, fils's wife's paternal grandfather, Pierre Morin dit Boucher, had gone to French Acadia during the early 1660s, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Acadian pioneers Pierre Martin and Catherine Vigneau of St.-Germain de Bourgeuil in central France, and settled at Chignecto in the 1670s.  During the late 1680s, Pierre dit Boucher's second son Louis fathered an illegitimate child by Marie-Josèphe, daughter of former Acadian governor Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin, the seigneur of Chignecto.  As a result of the scandal, the entire Morin family, including in-laws, was banished from the colony.  They resettled first at Gaspésie along the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs before moving on to the St. Lawrence valley.  Barbe gave Michel, fils nine children, eight sons and a daughter, in Canada.  All of their sons created families of their own on the lower St. Lawrence. 

Michel, fils and Barbe's second son François married Marie-Jeanne-Thérèse, called Thérèse, daughter of Henri Picoron dit Descôteaux and Marguerite Martin, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière near Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in October 1740.  Their second son, François, fils, born in Canada in c1743, may have followed his family to one of the French Maritime islands in greater Acadia when he was still very young and may have been deported to France in 1758 with other islanders, or he may have gone to France on his own after the war with Britain ended in 1763.  He first appears in the historical record at Le Havre in coastal Normandy in November 1765, when his marriage record, calling him an Arbour, says he was "of Quebec, Canada," and had been living at the port "for 1 1/2 yrs.," perhaps having arrived there from one of Maritime islands a few years earlier.  François, fils, age 22, married 24-year-old Marie Henry, an island Acadian, at Le Havre.  She gave him five sons in France between 1767 and 1785, three of whom survived childhood.  The couple remained at Le Havre until 1773, when François, fils took his family to the interior of Poitou as part of a major Acadian settlement venture.  By September 1784, they had joined other exiles who had gone to Poitou in the lower Loire port of Nantes.  In 1785, François, fils, Marie, and their three remaining sons followed hundreds of their fellow exiles to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where the three sons married. 

One of them created a vigorous line at Baton Rouge.  The great majority of the Arbours of South Louisiana are descended from François, fils's grandson, Frédéric, fils.  During the antebellum period, he and his sons became successful planters.  In 1850, Frédéric, fils owned 30 slaves in East Baton Rouge Parish.  A decade later, he held 56 slaves on two plantations in East Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes. 

At least four Arbours, three of them sons of Frédéric, fils, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, one of them as an officer.  Meanwhile, the war took a terrible toll on the Arbour family's economic standing.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal forces controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  This included the Arbour holdings in East Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes.  Union navy gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantations houses along the lower river.  After the war, the Arbours of Baton Rouge had to endure as best they could a free-labor postwar Southern economy.  ... 

Dozens of Arbours can be found today in the Baton Rouge area, most of them descendants of Frédéric the planter. ... 

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Arbot, Arboure, Arbourg, Arboux, Hambourg, Harbour, Harbourg, and Harbourgh in the Bayou State.64

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Only one possibly-Acadian Arbour family came to Louisiana, from France in 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where one of their lines endured.  Another, much smaller line, possibly arose on the western prairies during the antebellum period: 

François, fils (c1743-1780s) à Michel, fils à Michel Arbour

François, fils, son of François Arbour and Marie-Jeanne-Thérèse, called Thérèse, Picoron dit Descôteaux, born in Canada in c1743, may have followed his parents to the French Maritimes, part of greater Acadia, later in the decade or in the early 1750s and perhaps was deported with them to France in 1758, when he would have been in his early teens.  Or he may have gone to France on his own, from Canada or greater Acadia, during the final months of the war with Britain; he would have been age 20 in 1763, when the war ended.  He worked as a caulker in the mother country and married Marie, daughter of Acadians Joseph Henry and Christine Pitre, at Le Havre in November 1765.  The priest who recorded his marriage noted that both of François, fils's parents were deceased at the time of the wedding and that he had resided at Le Havre for a year and a half--that is, since 1763.  Marie gave François, fils at least five children in France, all sons, the first three born probably at Le Havre:  François-Henry in c1767; Jean-Louis-Firmin, called Louis, in c1770; and Frédéric-Édouard in c1772.  In the early 1770s, François, fils, Marie, and their three sons went to the interior of Poitou.  Marie gave François, fils another son there, Louis-Nicolas, at Archigny south of Châtellerault in June 1774.  Despite the retreat of most of the Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776, François, fils and Marie remained at Archigny, where yet another son, Louis-Joseph, was baptized in June 1778--five children, all sons, between 1767 and 1778.  Son Louis-Nicolas died at Archigny, age 9, in December 1782.  By September 1784, however, François, fils and his family had joined the hundreds of exiles who had gone to Nantes.  Youngest son Louis-Joseph died probably at Nantes in late 1784 or early 1785.  François, fils, now age 45, wife Marie, age 40, and their three remaining sons chose to follow hundreds of their fellow exiles to Spanish Louisiana.  They crossed aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in August 1785.  After a brief respite in the city, they followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  François, fils and Marie had no more children in the colony.  The marriage record of their oldest son François-Henry, dated 27 September 1790, notes that the groom's father was deceased at the time of the wedding, so François, fils died probably at Baton Rouge during the late 1780s, in his late 40s.  As François, fils had done, all three of his sons married Acadians, lending credence to the possibility that the Arbours also considered themselves to be Acadians, but only one of the sons, the youngest, seems to have perpetuated the family line in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son François-Henry followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge.  He married Marie-Jeanne-Jacqueline, called Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadian François Daigre and his French wife Jeanne Holley, at nearby San Gabriel in September 1790.  Jeanne, a native of Cherbourg, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Anne-Scholastique-Geneviève baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1782; François-Alexandre born in c1792 and died at age 2 in August 1794; Eulalie born in c1798 and baptized, age 3, in November 1801; Marie-Rose born in July 1799; Charles-François, called François le jeune, in c1800 and baptized, age 2, in October 1802; Eulalie-Carmélite dite Mélite born in October 1801; Apolline or Pauline in October 1803; Jean-Pierre died, age unrecorded, in April 1806; and Françoise Mélanie, called Mélanie, born in March 1809--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1782 and 1809.  Daughters Scholastique, Mélite, Pauline, and Françoise Mélanie married into the Altazin, Lerry, Guerry, and Collier families.  One of François Henry's sons married and settled on the western prairies.  One wonders if the line endured. 

Second son Charles François, called François le jeune, may have married Marie Aurore, called Aurore, Leroi or Roy, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the Baton Rouge area in the 1820s or 1830s.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Marie Delia baptized at Baton Rouge, age unrecorded, in December 1839; and François Bonicase born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in March 1842.  Neither of Charles François's children married by 1870.

François, fils's second son Jean-Louis-Firmin, called Firmin and perhaps Cadet, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge.  He married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Poirier and Marie Cormier of Cabahanncoer, at Cabahannocer on the river in April 1793.  Rosalie was a native of Louisiana.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer/St. James, included Jean-Pierre in c1794 but died at age 12 in November 1806; Rosalie born in December 1796[sic]; Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, in January 1797[sic] but died at age 3 years, 5 months, in June 1800; Marcellite born in March 1799; Louis-Evariste in January 1801; Achilles in February 1803; a son, name and age unrecorded, died at St. James in September 1806 (the recording priest called the father "Cadet," so one wonders if this was Jean-Louis-Firmin's child); and an infant, name and gender unrecorded, died at St. James in December 1806--eight children, at least four sons and three daughters, between 1794 and 1806.  Jean Louis Firmin remarried to Susanna, daughter of George Glover and P. Roberson of Virginia, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1812.  Did she give him anymore children?  Daughter Rosalie, by his first wife, married into the Legendre family.  None of Jean Louis Firmin's sons seem to have married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, may have died with him.  

François, fils's third son Frédéric-Édouard followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, where he married double cousin Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Henry and Marie Pitre of St.-Malo, France, in September 1798; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Marie-Rose, a native of Créhen near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana from France aboard a later ship.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Rosalie-Modeste, also called Marie-Rose, in January 1802; Frédéric, fils in December 1803; Emma Eglantine in December 1808; and Albery Gustave baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1829--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1802 and 1829.  Frédéric died at Baton Rouge in March 1848.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give his parents' names or mention a wife, said that Frederick, as he called him, died at "age 80 years."  He was 76.  Daughter Marie Rose married into the Delahay family.  Both of Frédéric Édouard's sons also married.  The great majority of the Arbours of South Louisiana are descended from Frédéric Édouard's older son, who fathered at least half a dozen sons of his own.  During the antebellum period, the older son and his sons became successful planters on the river. 

Older son Frédéric, fils married Marie Adeline or Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigre and Julie Trahan, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1825.  Their children, born at Baton Rouge, included Frédéric III baptized, age 6 months, in March 1827; Joseph born in July 1828; Édouard Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, in October 1830; Eugène Arnes or Ernest, called Ernest, in November 1832; Octave Roland or Roland Octave, in September 1834; Marie Adeline in September 1836; Marie Adèle baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1838; Arthur born in c1841; Marie Léontine, called Léontine, in November 1843; Oscar in October 1845; and Marie Coralie in February 1849 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 1/2) in October 1851--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1849.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted 30 slaves--20 males and 10 females, all black except for two mulattoes, ranging in age from 60 years to 2 months--on Frédérick Arbour's plantation near Baton Rouge city.  In the 1850s, Frédéric, fils employed 30 of his East Baton Rouge slaves in a sawmilling venture.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted 33 slaves--age 65 years to 4 months--on Frederick Arbour's plantation near Baton Rouge.  In July 1860, he also held 23 more slaves--19 males and four females, all blacks except for one mulatto, age 80 to 6--in Iberville Parish.  Frédéric, fils died near Baton Rouge in December 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Frédéric was age 75 when he died.  He was 63.  Daughter Léontine married an Acadian Allain by 1870.  Six of Frédéric, fils's sons also married by then.  Most of them served in the Confederate army, one of them as an officer, another as a sergeant. 

Oldest son Frédéric III married Ludoviska or Lodoiska Josephine Marie Adelay, D'Lahay, or De Lahay, probably at Baton Rouge in the early 1850s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Joseph André Victor Frédéric in February 1853, Marie Aglaé Adèle Léontine in January 1855; Adolphe Joseph in July 1858, Ida Alice Mary in January 1861; George Édouard in April 1868; ...   During the War of 1861-65, Frédéric III served in Company D of the 27th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish.  He enlisted as a second lieutenant in March 1862, was promoted to first lieutenant the following June, and fought with his unit at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1862-63.  After the Confederate surrender at Vicksburg in July 1863, Frédéric III, along with thousands of other Southerners, was sent home on a parole of honor.  His Confederate record then falls silent.  Judging by the birth date of a younger son, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Frédéric, fils's second son Joseph married Julie, daughter of Charles Maurin or Morin and Céleste Verret, at the Baton Rouge church in December 1851.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Mary Clara in April 1854; Marie Philomène, perhaps theirs, in February 1855; Cécelia in October 1856 but, called Cécilia, died the following April; Marie Céleste born in February 1858 but, called Marie, died at age 4 (the recording priest said 3) in February 1862; Joseph, fils born in August 1859 but died at age 16 months in December 1860; Joseph Charles born in December 1861; Henri Antoine in February 1867; Marie Julie in June 1869; ...  None of Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Frédéric, fils's  third son Édouard Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, married cousin Célestine, daughter of Éloi Martinez and Victoire Heude, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Eulalie Coralie in February 1855 but, called Marie Coralie, died at age 1 1/2 in July 1856; George Edward born in June 1857; Marie Rosa Coralie in February 1859; Marie Célestine Anna in December 1860; Marie Victoire Ada in January 1865; John Early in December 1867; Lucie Marie Célestine in February 1870; ...  During the war, Bienvenu, along with younger brother Octave, served in Company A of Miles' Legion Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans Parish but which contained a number of soldiers from Baton Rouge.  The unit served in Mississippi and Louisiana.  The Miles' Legion fought at the siege of Port Hudson in the spring and summer of 1863.  Bienvenu missed the siege, however.  He was captured at the Comite River north of Baton Rouge in early May 1863 and held by the Federals at Mobile, Alabama, until they paroled him at Grant's Island near Mobile at the end of May.  As the birth of one of his sons shows, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Frédéric, fils's fourth son Eugène Ernest, called Ernest, married Emma, daughter of André D'Lahay or De Lahay and Marie Anne Vigoureux, perhaps a sister of his brother Frédéric III's wife, at the Baton Rouge church in October 1854.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Emma Marie Ernestine in April 1858 but, called Marie Ernestine, died at age 2 in June 1858[sic, probably June 1860]; and William Ernest born in February 1860. ...

Frédéric, fils's fifth son Octave Roland or Roland Octave married Caroline or Carrie Gayle in a civil ceremony probably in East Baton Rouge Parish in December 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Baton Rouge church in March 1868.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included William Roland in December 1861; Frances, a daughter, in July 1866; Mary Blanche in May 1868; Cécile in December 1869; ...  During the war, Octave served as corporal and fifth sergeant in Company A of Miles' Legion Louisiana Infantry, raised in Orleans Parish, which fought in Mississippi and Louisiana, but his service with the unit was more praiseworthy than brother Bienvenu's.  He enlisted in Company A at Baton Rouge in September 1862, was promoted to corporal a few weeks later, and then to fifth sergeant in March 1863.  After the surrender of Port Hudson in July 1863, members of Company A of the Miles' Legion served in Company I of Ogden's Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, which also fought in Louisiana and Mississippi, Octave among them.  He remained a sergeant, surrendered with his unit at Gainesville, Alabama, in May 1865, and, as the birth of his oldest daughter attests, returned to his family. 

Frédéric, fils's sixth son Arthur was a single, 20-year-old lawyer living in Baton Rouge when he enlisted in Company B of the 7th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in East Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1861.  His regiment fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, so he was one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Arthur was not part of the 7th Infantry for very long.  In early October 1861, he was sent to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia.  His illness or injury must have been serious, because in early November, after he was examined by a medical board, he was discharged from Confederate service for disability.  He probably returned to Baton Rouge.  He married Olivia, daughter of Acadian Gilbert Comeaux and his Creole wife Adeline Gallagaher, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1868.  

Frédéric Édouard's younger son Albery Gustave may have married Marguerite Zénon, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Alphonse was born near Baton Rouge in May 1856.  Did they have anymore children? 

Arcement

Pierre-Claude Arcement, Arcemont, or Hersmence, born probably in France in c1694, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg, in c1722 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin.  They had eight children, including four sons, one of whom was a twin to one of his sisters.  By 1750, Pierre-Claude and his family had moved to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official, calling Pierre-Claude a Herrement, "native of l'Acadie," which he was not, counted him, his wife, and three of their younger children at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island.  Pierre-Claude's daughters married into the Guillot, LePrince, and Pitre families.  Three of his four sons, all born probably at Pigiguit, also created families of their own. 

When the British deported the Acadians of Nova Scotia in the autumn of 1755, Pierre-Claude Arcement, wife Marie-Josèphe Thériot, and their children, still on Île St.-Jean, were living in territory controlled by France.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  Pierre-Claude Arcement's son Pierre, age 25, his wife Marie Hébert, age 23, their infant son Pierre, fils, and Marie's sister Anne Hébert, crossed on the British transport Supply, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 10-ship convoy in late November.  After dodging a deadly storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other transports, the Supply limped to Bideford, England, for repairs during the third week of December before sailing on to St.-Malo, which it finally reached in early March 1759.  Pierre and his family survived the crossing.  His sister Geneviève, age 35, husband Amand Pitre, age 35, and eight of their children, ages 12 to 3, also crossed on Supply, but they were not as lucky.  Three of their children, ages 12, 4, and 3, died at sea, and a daughter, age 8, died in April 1759 probably from the rigors of the crossing.  One wonders what happened to Pierre and Geneviève's parents and their other siblings, some of whom may have remained at Pigiguit when the rest of the family moved to Île St.-Jean in 1750. 

Pierre and Marie settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo, where she gave him many more children.  Pierre's sister Geneviève, husband Amand Pitre, and their four surviving children also settled at St.-Suliac, where another daughter was born in February 1761.  In the early 1770s, Amand and Geneviève were part of the major settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians from Châtellerault down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted on government hand outs and on what work they could find.  Geneviève died at Nantes sometime in the late 1770s or early 1780s, in her late 50s or early 60s.  Meanwhile, her brother Pierre, wife Marie, and ther large family remained at St.-Suliac. 

When in the early 1780s the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, Pierre Arcement, fils, wife Marie, and seven of their children, two sons and five daughters, agreed to take it.  So did his widowed brother-in-law Amand Pitre and four of his children.  Pierre, Marie, and their seven children emigrated to Louisiana directly from St.-Malo in 1785.  From New Orleans, they did not follow their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écore in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but went, instead, to upper Bayou Lafourche, where their children created families of their own.  At least one of Pierre, fils's descendants moved to lower Bayou Teche during or after the War of 1861-65. 

During the late antebellum period, only a few Arcements owned slaves.  Pierre's younger son Guillaume Romain, now in his 80s, owned five slaves in July 1850 on the eve of his death.  Federal census takers counted no slaves on Arcement farms in 1860.  The family, then, participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation-based economy.  

At least four descendants of Pierre Arcement served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  One of them, a conscript from Lafourche Parish, was captured at Vicksburg in July 1863, refused parole, and was shot to death by a Yankee guard at Camp Morton, a prisoner-of-war camp in Indiana, the following January.  His three kinsmen, only one of them a volunteer, survived the conflict.  The war was just as tragic for the Arcements who stayed at home.  Successive Federal incursions devastated the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley early in the war, and Confederate foragers plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  After the war, the Arcements of the Lafourche and Terrebonne valleys had to endure as best they could a free-labor postwar Southern economy.  One family moved on to lower Bayou Teche and settled in St. Mary Parish, but the rest of them remained in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Arceman, Arcemant, Arcemand, Arcemont, Archemant, Arsman, Arseman, Arsemans, Arsement, Arsemon, Hersemence, and should not be confused with the more numerous Arceneauxs.65

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Only one Arcement family, eight of them, came to Louisiana, in 1785 from France.  They crossed from St.-Malo to the Spanish colony aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late December.  They chose to go to upper Bayou Lafourche, where most of their fellow exiles from France had gone.  Two vigorous family lines came of it in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley: 

Pierre (1733-?) Arcement

Pierre, son of Pierre-Claude Arcement and Marie-Josèphe Thériot, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where a French official counted them at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island in August 1752.  Pierre married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Madeleine Doiron, on the island in c1757.  In late 1758, the British deported Pierre, Marie, infant son Pierre, fils, and Marie's sister Anne to St.-Malo, France.  They all survived the crossing.  Pierre and Marie settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of the Breton port, where, between 1760 and 1776, she gave him nine more children:  Marguerite-Ludivine born in September 1760; Marie-Josèphe in October 1762; Charles-Suliac in August 1764; Tranquille-François in June 1766; Victoire-Hélène in March 1768; Perrine-Madeleine in May 1770; Guillaume-Romain in January 1772; Julie-Céleste in c1773; and Françoise in c1776--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1758 and 1776, in greater Acadia and France.  As the birth years of their younger children reveal, they did not go to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join hundreds of their fellow exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  Pierre, Marie, and most of their children, two sons and five daughters, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 from St.-Malo.  However, three of their children--Pierre, fils; Marguerite-Ludivine; and Charles-Suliac--who, if they were still living, would have been ages 27, 25, and 21 in 1785, did not follow their family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, the family moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre and Marie's daughters who did go to Louisiana--Marie, Victoire, Perrine, Françoise, and Julie--married into the Naquin, Aucoin, Richard, Thibobeaux, Dugas, and Gautreaux families on the upper Lafourche.  Both of Pierre's remaining sons also married  there.  Descendants of the older son settled in what became Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  Descendants of the younger son remained in Assumption Parish or moved down bayou into Lafourche Interior.

Third son Tranquille-François followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Anne-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Rassicot dit Ratier and Marie-Henriette Pothier, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast in July 1788.  Anne-Marguerite, a native of Cherbourg, had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier ship.  They settled near Tranquille's father and siblings on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Bathilde in July 1789; François-Louis in May 1791; Henriette-Adélaïde in February 1794; Louis baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1797; Nicolas born in March 1802; Rose-Scholastique or -Scholastie in March 1803; Eulalie in the early 1800s; Constance Perrine in July 1805; and Auguste Martial in June 1810--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1789 and 1810.  Tranquille died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1829.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Tranquille was age 66 when he died.  He was 63.  A public sale in his name was held at the Lafourche Interior Parish couthouse in November 1832; the notification listed his wife and children, including Marie and her deceased Honoré husband, Henriette and her Brunet husband, Louis, Eulalie and her Bellanger husband, Nicolas, Rose and her Forest husband, and Constance and her Bergeron husband.  Daughters Marie Bathilde, Rose Scholastique, Henriette, Eulalie, and Constance married into the Honoré, Foret, Brunet, Bellanger, and Bergeron families.  Two of Tranquille's sons also married and settled in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  

Second son Louis married Anne Rosalie, Rosaline or Rose, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Robichaux and Anne Prejean, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1820.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Anne Rose dite Nanette and Annette in September 1820; Louis Michel in September 1821; Pauline in January 1823 but died the following December; Prosper Pierre born in March 1824; Joseph Nicolas, called Nicolas, in February 1826; Pierre in May 1830; Melina, also called Émelie and Milie, in July 1835; and Louis Cletus, called Cletus, in December 1837--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1820 and 1837.  Louis, père died in Terrebonne Parish in November 1843, age 46.  His succession inventories, dated 14 May 1842 and 29 January 1844 at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse, called his wife Rosaline Robichau and listed their children and one of their spouses:  Nanette, age 23, and her Guidry husband; Louis, age 22; Prospère, age 20; Nicolas, age 17; Cléomise, age 15; Pierre, age 13; Milie, age 11; and Cletus, age 6.  Louis's succession, filed at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse in May 1845, listed another heir, Eulalie Arcement, widow of Valéry Bellanger.  Daughters Annette and Émélie married into the Guidry and Duplantis families by 1870.  Four of Louis's sons also married by then, but not all of the lines endured.  One of Louis's sons settled on lower Bayou Teche during or after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Louis Michel, while residing in Terrebonne Parish, married, at age 23, cousin Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Robichaux and Marie Madeleine Breaux of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church in July 1845 (though a civil record at Houma, Terrebonne Parish, says they married "probably 1830 or 1831," when Louis Michel would have been age 9 or 10!).  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Louis Dalpheres in December 1849; Jean Onesi in August 1852; and Marie Odillia in November 1859--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1849 and 1859.  In October 1850, the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish counted a single slave--a black 15-year-old male--on Louis Arcement's farm; this was Louis Michel.  At age 46, Louis Michel remarried to Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Aucoin and Anne-Marguerite dite Annette Dugas, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1868.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Louis's second son Prosper Pierre married Elzélina, Evéline, or Ezélina, 19-year-old daughter of  fellow Acadian Eléonore Crochet and his Creole wife Célise Pichoff, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1851.  Their children, born on the southeast bayous, included Émée Odile in Lafourche Parish in February 1853; and Marie Zulma in Terrebonne Parish in May 1856.  Neither of Prosper's daughters married by 1870. 

Louis's fourth son Pierre may have been the Pierre Arsemon who married Geneviève Dauphin, place and date unrecorded.  If they married on the Lafourche, they did not remain.  Daughter Mathilda was born near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in March 1865; ...  

Louis's fifth and youngest son Louis Cletus, called Cletus, married Malvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Lucien Savoie and his Creole wife Marceline Chauvin of Lafourche Parish, at the Houma church in November 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Lorenza was born in August 1860; and Marie Eva, called Eve, in August 1862.  Cletus died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1863, age 25.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  He fathered no sons.  A petition for inventory and tutor for his daughter Eve, naming his wife and the fellow she remarried in December 1865, was filed at the Houma courthouse in February 1866. 

Tranquille François's third son Nicolas, at age 32, married Rosalie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pitre and Marie Anne Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Nicolas Ovile, called Ovile, in February 1835; Marcellin Austin in September 1836; Louise Huranie in July 1838 but, called Louise, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 15) in May 1853; Joseph Wilfrid born in October 1840 but, called Joseph, died at age 18 1/2 (the recording priest said 18) in February 1859; Charles born in March 1843; Louis Félix in September 1845; Victor Olésime in October 1848; and Marie Justine in July 1851--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1835 and 1851.  Nicolas died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial and named Nicolas's wife said that Nicolas died "at age 62 yrs."  He was 59.  Daughter Marie Justine married into the Robichaux family by 1870.  Two of Nicolas's sons also married by then.

Oldest son Nicolas Ovile, called Ovile, married Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Blanchard and Marcelline Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in October 1860.  They settled near Raceland.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Augustin in July 1861; Marie Ovilia in January 1863; Paul Orestil in July 1864; Joseph Oscar in January 1867; Marguerite Olidia in February 1869; ...  

Nicolas's second son Marcellin Austin married Pauline, daughter of Auguste Sanchez and his Acadian wife Adèle Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in February 1863.  Their son Joseph Albert was born near Raceland in October 1865; ... 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Guillaume-Romain followed his family to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he worked probably as an engagé with several Acadian families.  At age 31, he married Marianne, daughter of François Aysenne and Maria Thérèse Smith of St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in February 1803.  They settled near the boundary of what became Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marianne in April 1804; François Guillaume in September 1806; Pierre Séraphin in July 1808; Claire in September 1810 but, called Clarice, died at age 21 in September 1831; Basilise dite Élise born in July 1812; Joseph in August 1816; Valsin Théodule in January 1818 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 29, in October 1848; Étienne Joseph born in September 1820; Marie Marguerite in January 1822; Onésiphore Antoine Basile in February 1823 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in November 1824; Jean Baptiste Ulisse or Ulysse, called Baptiste, born in October 1824; Joachim Auguste or Augustin in June 1826; Azélie Victoire in December 1827 but died at age 22 months in October 1829; Joachim Narcisse born in July 1830; and Marie Azéma in June 1834 but died in July (the recording priest said she died "at age 13 mths.," but it was not even 13 weeks)--15 children, six daughters and nine sons, between 1804 and 1834.  Guillaume died on the Lafourche in July 1850.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Guillaume was age 73 when he died.  He was 78.  Three days after Guillaume's death, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--two males and three females, all black except for a single mulatto, ranging in age from 30 years to 1 month--on Guillaume Arceman's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughters Élise and Marie married into the Juneau and Boudreaux families.  Four of Guillaume Romaine's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  His youngest son died in Confederate service before he could marry.  Guillaume Romaine's oldest son's line was especially robust.  His descendants settled up and down the Lafourche valley from Assumption south to Lafourche Parish.   

Oldest son François Guillaume married Marie Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Hyacinthe Laurent Aucoin and his Creole wife Marie Céleste Delond and widow of Joseph Richard, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1835.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Théophil or Théophile Hubert in October 1835; Pierre Aristide in February 1837 but died at age 3 1/2 in November 1840; Augustine Roséma born in June 1838, but, called Azéma Augustine, died the following December; Joseph Augustin born in September 1839 but, called Joseph Auguste, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in October 1847; Léo born in February 1841 but, called Louis, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 7) in October 1847; Jules Alexandre born in January 1843; Alfred Félicien in December 1844; Ikiler Oleus in January 1847; Augustin Wilfrid in May 1849; Auguste Ozémé in December 1852; Marie Oliva in July 1854; and Léonie Numa in February 1857--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, between 1835 and 1857.  None of François Guillaume's daughters married by 1870, but three of his sons did.  They settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Théophile Hubert married Emilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Richard and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1858.  During the War of 1861-65, Théophile was conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which was composed of many Lafourche valley conscripts, including his uncle Joachim Arcement.  The unit fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Théophile, along with his unit, was captured there in July 1863, he refused parole, and spent the rest of the war in Camp Morton, a prisoner-of-war camp near Indianapolis, Indiana.  Unlike his uncle, Joachim, who was shot to death by a sentinel at Camp Morton, Théophile survived the ordeal and returned to his family. 

François Guillaume's fifth son Jules Alexandre, during the war, served in Company C, 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Assumption Parish, which fought, and was captured, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Jules married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Marcellin Gautreaux and Pauline Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in April 1864, while he was waiting to be exchanged.  As the births of his children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Mary Oceana in November 1865; Joseph Désiré in July 1868; ... 

François Guillaume's sixth son Alfred Félicien married Letitia, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste LeBlanc and his Creole wife Adèle Peltier, at the Labadieville church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Marie Odilia in October 1867; Aurelia in November 1869; ...

Guillaume Romain's second son Pierre Séraphin married Rosalie Césaire, called Césaire, daughter of Augustin Lagrange and Rosalie Mayer, at the Thibodaux church in May 1838.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Séraphine in the late 1830s; Séraphin in c1839 but died between May and July 1853, age 14; a son, name unrecorded, born in c1841 but died at age 14 in May or July 1853; Marie Victorine born in December 1842; Adolphine Fetille in December 1844; Victorine Zoémie in October 1846; and Marie Victorine, evidently the second with the name, in February 1849--seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1839 and 1849.  Pierre Séraphin died probably in August 1849, age 41.  In July 1850, not quite a year after Pierre's death, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a 40-year-old female, a 7-year-old female, and a 3-year-old male, all black--on Widow Pierre Arseman's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District.  Daughters Séraphine, Marie, and Adolphine married into the Boudreaux, Hébert, and Martin families by 1870.  Pierre Séraphin's sons did not survive childhood, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Guillaume Romain's seventh son Jean Baptiste Ulysse married Sarah Jane or Jeanne, daughter of Olibbe Bone, Borne, Borns, Burns, Burs, or Van and Marie Romer, at the Labadieville church in October 1856.  They settled near Attakapas Canal east of Lake Verret.  Their children, born there, included Auguste Lesta in July 1858, Henry Cleber in December 1859, Louise Amanda in November 1861; Pierre Léony Jean Baptiste in September 1863, Marie Antonia in April 1865; Joseph William in December 1866, twins Jean Baptiste Vinson and Joseph Nicholls in February 1870; ... 

Guillaume Romain's eighth son Joachim Auguste or Augustin married, at age 37,  Elena, daughter of Ursin Oncal or Oncale and Euphemie Maillet, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1863.  A few months before his marriage, Auguste, a private in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia, fought in the Battle of Labadieville in Assumption Parish, not far from his home; fell into Federal hands in November 1862; and was released on a parole of honor.  His and Elena's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Veudeen died at age 2 days near Labadieville in February 1864; Mertil Predeau born in April 1865; Guillaume Romain in April 1867; Joseph Nicholls Cléome in April 1869; ... 

During the war, Guillaume Romain's ninth and youngest son Joachim was conscripted into Company C of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery, which was composed of many Lafourche valley conscripts, including his nephew Théophile Arcement.  The regiment fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Joachim, along with his unit, was captured at Vicksburg in July 1863.  He refused parole, and so the Federals sent him, along with nephew Théophile and others who had refused parole, to Camp Morton, a prisoner-of-war camp near Indianapolis, Indiana.  In January 1864, a Yankee sentinel shot and killed Joachim.  He was age 33 and probably still a bachelor. 

Arceneaux

Coastal pilot Pierre Arseneau, as his name came to be spelled, born perhaps in the hamlet of La Flamancherie, Saintonge, southwest France, in September 1646, may have come to Acadia from La Rochelle aboard L'Oranger in 1671.  He and his wives Marguerite Dugas and Marie Guérin created a large family in the colony.  In 1676 and 1678, first wife Marguerite gave Pierre two children, both sons, both of whom married, into the Boudrot, Gaudet, and Mirande families.  Between 1690 and 1702, second wife Marie gave him seven more children, six sons and a daughter--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1676 and 1702.  Pierre's daughter evidently died young, but five of his sons by his second wife also married, into the Mirande, Poirier, Bernard, Richard, and Savoie families.  Pierre, Marguerite, and Marie's descendants settled not only at Chignecto, but also in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous at Malpèque on the northwest coast of Île St.-Jean.  As a result, not all of Pierre's descendants were "typical" Fundy Acadians. 

In the fall of 1755, the Asceneaus remaining at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian milita, assisted by Abbé Le Loutre and his Mi'kmaq warriors, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Arseneaus probably were among the refugees of this petit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Chignecto Acadians were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, Chignecto Acadians served in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  An Arseneau wife was among them.  She ended up in South Carolina. 

Chignecto Arseneaus who escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in 1755 hurried north to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Others moved on to Canada.  Two young Arseneaus from Chignecto died in a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in and around Québec City from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  After 1759, other members of the family congregated at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Still others escaped to French-controlled Île-St. Jean, where their cousins had lived for decades.  Their respite from British oppression there was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats rounded up most of the habitants on the Maritime islands and deported them to France.  Most of the Arseneaus on Île St.-Jean, living at remote Malpèque, escaped the redcoasts by crossing Mer Rouge and joining their cousins on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. 

A few Arseneaus on Île St.-Jean could not get away.  Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Cormier and wife of François Vécot of Boucherville, Canada, was counted with her family on the south bank of Rivière-du-Nord-Est, in the interior of the island, in August 1752.  In September 1758, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the deportation transport Duc Guillaume, which suffered a mid-ocean mishap, perhaps an explosion.  Four of Anne-Marie's five children died aboard ship.  The crippled vessel arrived at St.-Malo on 1 November 1758.  One record notes that Anne-Marie "died in the roadstead at St.-Malo," so she almost made it to the mother country.  She was age 32.  Her husband died on November 4, just three days after the ship made port.  In the immediate family, only their son François Vécot, fils, age 13, survived the ordeal.  Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Anne Boudrot of Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, and widow of Jean Delaunay of Lacasse, Brittany, was deported to Cherbourg, Normandy, in late 1758 but moved on to St.-Malo in August 1759.  She lived at St.-Cast on the coast west of St.-Malo, at Corseul in the interior southwest of St.-Malo, and again at St.-Cast, where she died in October 1763, in early 40s.  Jean, fils, son of Jean Arseneau and Marie Lamy, a day laborer, married Élisabeth, daughter of locals Barthélemy Sansovoine and Anne Pasquier of St.-Martin de Péré, in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, the naval base on the Bay of Biscay, in May 1771; Jean, fils's brothers Pierre, André, and Élie witnessed the marriage.  One wonders if they were descendants of Pierre the pilot. 

Some of the Arseneaus held by the British in North America came to the mother country by a different route.  After the war, they eresettled on the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.   The choice, however, for many of them, proved to be a troublesome one.  Louise, daughter of Abraham Arseneau and Jeanne Gaudet and widow of Jean Vigneau dit Maurice, remarried to Joseph Dugas, fils, widower of Marguerite LeBlanc, in the prison compound at Chédabouctou, Nova Scotia, in October 1762.  At war's end, they chose to remain in greater Acadia, but not under British rule.  The marriage was "reinstated" at Notre-Dame-des-Ardiliers, on Île Miquelon, in May 1766.  Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Arseneau, and husband Jean dit Jeannotte Bourg, were counted on the island in 1767.  Overcrowding on the islands soon led the French, obeying a royal decree, to send many of fisher/habitants to the mother country.  Louise and husband Joseph crossed on the schooner La Creole and reached St.-Malo in November 1767, but they refused to stay.  They returned to the island the following March with most of their fellow Miquelonnais.  Jean Arseneau, wife Madeleine Boudrot, and their family also went to France in 1767, but they did not return to the island.  They settled, instead, at Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany with other exiles, most recently repatriated to France from England.  Jean drowned probably off the island in September 1768.  His family chose to remain in France, but not on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Son Basile, now a sailor, married Anne, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Marguerite Hébert of Notre-Dame, Île Miquelon, at St.-Jean church, La Rochelle, in April 1780.  Meanwhile, in 1778, during the American war for independence, France joined the Americans against their old enemy, Britain.  The redcoats promptly captured St.-Pierre and Miquelon and deported the Acadians there to La Rochelle and other French ports.  Soon after reaching La Rochelle, Louise Arseneau and husband Joseph Dugas, fils returned to St.-Malo aboard the brigantine La Jeannette in November 1778.  This time they stayed.  They settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Louise died in June 1779, age 63.  Pierre Arseneau and his wife Théotiste Bourgeois of Chignecto also went to France via the Newfoundland islands.  As a teenager, Pierre, with younger brother Jean-Baptiste, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and married Théotiste at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in July 1760.  The wedding occured soon after the British attacked Restigouche in late June.  The attacked failed, so the British returned to their base at Louisbourg.  However, after the fall of Montréal in September 1760 and the end of the fighting in North America, the French surrendered Restigouche in late October.  The British held many of the Acadians captured there and in the surrounding region, including Arseneaus, in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  At war's end, Pierre and Théotiste chose to follow their kinsmen to Miquelon.  They likely went to France in 1767 and returned the following year.  They were on the island in 1778 when the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierrre and deported the Acadians to France.  Pierre, Théotiste, and their family were still at La Rochelle when their daughter Marie-Anne was born in St.-Jean Parish there in February 1779, but she died two months later.  Their daughter Judith, called Julie, was born in St.-Jean Parish in March 1781 and died there in March 1782.  Pierre also died there that year.  Three of his older children--Marie-Scholastique, Pierre, and Charles--refused to remain in the mother country.  They returned to Île Miquelon probably in 1784, after the war had ended in France's favor, and moved on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  If the few Arceneaus still in the mother country were aware that many of their kin had gone to Louisiana two decades earlier and were thriving there, it may not have mattered.  None took up the Spanish offer. 

In North America, Arseneaus who escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in 1758 made their way to Restigouche, where they joined their Chignecto cousins already there.  After the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British gathered their forces to attack the remaining French strongholds in New France, including Restigouche, now a major Acadian refuge.  In late June 1760, a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to oppose a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On October 24, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, many Arseneaus among them.  Most were sent to prison compounds in Nova Scotia, including Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old homes at Chignecto; and Halifax.  A hand full of Arseneaus may have escaped this latest roundup and moved to Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, or to Île Miscou at the entrance to the bay, or they may have gone there from Nova Scotia after the war. 

Acadians being held in the seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not before the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial authorities discouraged repatriation.  In August 1763, Marie Arseneau, husband Simon Leblan, and Cormier and Quesy [Caissie] orphans, all from Chignecto, appeared on a French repatriation list circulating in South Carolina.  One wonders where Marie might have gone after the listing. 

Most of the Arseneaus still in North America at war's end resettled in Canada or remained in greater Acadia, from the upper St. Lawrence down to the Maritimes.  Though now also a conquered British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Pierre Arseneau the coastal pilot began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, they could be found on the upper St. Lawrence at Lotbinière, Bécancour, St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, L'Assomption, and Montréal; at St.-Pierre-de-Sorel, St.-Ours, and St. Antoine-de-Chambly on the lower Richelieu; at Québec City; on Île d'Orléans and at Rimouski on the lower St. Lawrence; on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; at Carleton and Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs; at Île Miscou, Caraquet, Cocagne, and Grande-Digue along the shore of today's eastern New Brunswick; at Louisbourg and Chéticamp on Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale; and at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia.  Some of them managed to return to St. John's Island, which the British renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.  

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

Arseneaus settled early in Acadia, and they were among the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them came to the colony from Halifax via Cap-Français in February 1765 with the Broussards.  In April, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, but they did not remain there.  When an epidemic struck the Teche valley settlements later that year, all of the Arseneaus fled to Cabahannocer on the river, where other Arseneaus from Halifax had settled earlier that year.  Most of them stayed there, creating the first center of family settlement in the colony on what became known as the Acadian Coast.  Not until the late colonial period did Arceneauxs return to the prairies, creating a western branch of the family that eventually rivaled in numbers their kinsmen on the river.  Meanwhile, an Arceneaux from the river moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement there.  In the 1820s, two brothers from St. Martin Parish joined their cousins along Bayou Lafourche.  One of the brothers returned to Bayou Teche, but the other one remained on the Lafourche.  

Though some of them moved on to Île St.-Jean soon after Acadians began settling that island in the early 1700s, the Arseneaus of Acadia had tended to concentrate at Chignecto, which the progenitor of their family helped pioneer.  The Arceneauxs of Louisiana, however, exhibited a very different settlement pattern than that of their Acadian forebears.  From the late colonial into the antebellum period, beginning at their base in what became St. James Parish, they spread out to nearly every corner of today's Acadiana--up the Mississippi as far as Baton Rouge; on Bayou Lafourche from Assumption down to Thibodaux and Lockport; on Bayou Teche from Breaux Bridge down to Charenton, and out into the prairies north and west of present-day Lafayette. 

Most Arceneauxs of South Louisiana are descendants of Pierre of Rochefort and Chignecto, but a family of French Canadians with a similar-sounding surname also settled in today's Acadiana.  Michel Arcenot of Cap-de-Madeleine, Canada, came to Louisiana over a decade before his Acadian namesakes arrived.  He and his family settled first on the German Coast above New Orleans before moving upriver to the Acadian Coast, where they lived among Acadian Arceneauxs who had already settled there.  One of Michel's sons moved to Bayou Lafourche, where his descendants settled near their Acadian namesakes as far down as the Terrebonne country.  Some of Michel's descendants married Acadians. ...

Dozens of Arceneauxs, most of them Acadians, served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and some of them died in Confederate service. ...

In Louisiana, the Acadian family's name evolved from Arseneau and Arsenault to Arceneaux.  The family's name also is spelled Arcellon, Arcenaux, Arcenos, Arcenot, Arsenaud, Arseneau, Arseneault, Arseno, Arzenaud in the Bayou State.  Sometimes in local church and civil records, the much smaller Arcement or Arsement family of Acadians is confused with the more numerous Arceneauxs.70

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In February 1765, 11 Arseneaus, including three brothers, came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français with the Broussards and followed them to lower Bayou Teche, but not all of them remained.  Three vigorous family lines came of it on the prairies and the river: 

Jean (c1728-1800) à Abraham à Pierre Arceneaux

Jean, oldest son of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Hébert, born at Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, in c1728, married Judith Bergeron probably at Chignecto in the early 1750s.  She gave him a son, Jean-Charles, there in c1752.  They escaped the British roundup at Chigneco in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Judith gave Jean another son, Joseph, born in c1756.  By 1760, they made their way to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Jean Arseneau dt Cointin, with a family of four, appeared on a list of 1,003 Acadians still there in October 1760.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Judith gave Jean two more sons in exile:  Guillaume born in c1761; and Pierre-Paul, called Paul and Hippolyte, in c1762.  The British counted Piere, his wife, and four sons on Georges Island, Halifax, in August 1763.  Jean took his family to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65 and followed them to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765.  That fall, he and his family retreated to Cabahannocer on the river to escape an epidemic that struck the Teche valley community.  They remained at Cabahannocer, on what became known as the Acadian Coast, where they had more children, including Marie-Anne dite Manon born in c1769; François baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1771; and Laurent in August 1773--seven children, six sons and a daughter, between 1752 and 1773, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Jean fared well at Cabahannocer for an Acadian exile; in March 1779, Spanish officials counted three slaves on his farm along the river.  He died there, a widower, in January 1800.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 75 when he died.  He was closer to 72.  Daughter Manon married into the Clouâtre and Tomlette families on the river.  All six of Jean's sons married and settled on the Acadian Coast, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles followed his family into exile and imprisonment, to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and back to the river, where he married Marie-Josèphe, 14-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Babin and Anne Saulnier and stepdaughter of Michel Cormier of Opelousas, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer church in January 1777.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Cécile-Félicité, called Félicité, baptized, age unrecorded, in November 1779; Abraham baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1782; Denise or Dyonise born in March 1783; Justine in April 1787; and Louise- or Héloise-Scholastique in October 1791--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1779 and 1791.  Jean died in St. James Parish in April 1813, in his early 60s.  Daughters Dyonise, Félicité, Justine, and Héloise married into the Sonnier, Picou, Bernard, and Melançon families.  His son married twice and created a vigorous line on the river. 

Only son Abraham, at age 20, married Marie Éloise, Héloise, or Louise, 25-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Adons LeBlanc and Marie-Marguerite Landry of San Gabriel, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in August 1802.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Adalie, Cidalise, or Sidalise in May 1804; Jean Abraham in November 1806; Euphémie, also called Marie Euphémie, in January 1808; Domitille or Donitille in May 1810; and Delsine or Telcide Marie in April 1813.  Marie died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May 1813, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth; the recording priest said she was age 25, but she was closer to 35.  Abraham remarried to Marie Carmélise or Carmélite, daughter of Salvador Comil, Coneille, Conille, Connille, or Counille and Marianne Peleret of New Orleans and widow of François Huguet, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in March 1815.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Marthe in April 1817; Abraham Amédée, called Amédée, in October 1818 but died at age 32 in December 1850; Evariste Abraham born in October 1819; Palmire or Palmyre in July 1823; Marie Carmélite in March 1825; and Florentine Myrthe in February 1828 but died at age 1 in April 1829--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1804 and 1828.  Abraham, père died near Convent, St. James Parish, in September 1830.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Abraham was age 46 when he died.  He was closer to 48.  Daughters Sidalise, Marie Euphémie, Donitille, Telcide, Marie Carmélite, and Palmyre, by both wives, married into the Menier or Munier, Estevan, Arceneaux, Landry, Duhon, Bourgeois, and Cornet families.  Only one of Abraham's sons married.

Third and youngest son Evariste Abraham, by second wife Carmélite Connille, married Marie Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bernard Allain and Apollonie Blanchard, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1840.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Joseph Elphége in August 1841; Martial in October 1842; and Léontine in September 1844 but died near Baton Rouge at age 17 1/2 (the recording priest said 19) in June 1862--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1841 and 1844.  During the War of 1861-65, Evariste's two sons served Louisiana in separate units.  Evariste Abraham's daughter died before she could marry, but one of his sons married, after his war service, and settled in Texas.  The other son died during the war before he could marry. 

Older son Joseph Elphége served in Company A of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  Joseph E. was present on all of the rolls of his company from his enlistment in New Orleans in August 1861 until June 1863.  He was captured along with many of his fellow troopers at Big Hill, Kentucky, in late July 1863.  The Federals sent him to the Military Prison at Louisville, Kentucky, in early August; transferred him to Fort Delaware, Delaware, in February 1864; and sent him on to Camp Chase, Ohio, in March.  He was exchanged at City Point, Virginia, in March 1865, but he may not have returned home to Iberville Parish.  He married Amanda Susan, daughter of Anglo American John C. Darby, at Logan, Kentucky, in December 1866.  She was a year older than Joseph Elphége.  He likely met her during his Confederate service.  They did not settle in South Louisiana but remained in Kentucky before moving to Texas by the mid-1870s.  Joseph Elphége died in Texas between 1910 and 1919, in his 60s. 

Evariste's younger son Martial, called Martialis by the priest who recorded his burial, died near Gonzales, St. James Parish, in April 1864, age 21.  He probably did not marry and likely was the M. Arceneaux who, during the war, served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi.  M. was captured at Corinth, Mississippi, in September 1862; was released by the Federals soon afterward; and went home on sick furlough in November.  His wartime service probably contributed to his early death. 

Jean's second son Joseph followed his family into exile and imprisonment, to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and back to the river, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dupuis and Anne Gaudet and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in September 1780.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Céleste baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1781; Esther in the 1780s; Joseph, fils in June 1786; and Pélagie in December 1790--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1781 and 1790.  Joseph, père died in St. James Parish in January 1811, age 56.  Daughters Esther, Céleste, and Pélagie married into the Mire, Breaux, and Aucoin families.  Joseph's son also married. 

Only son Joseph, fils married Marie Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Bergeron and Marie Godin, at Cabahannocer/St. James in June 1805.  Their children, born in what became St. James Parish, included Joseph Léon or Léonard Joseph, called Léon and Jacques, in April 1806; Félix in May 1808; Marie Domitille in June 1810; Vital in November 1812; Théodule in April 1815; a daughter, name and age unrecorded, died in September 1817; and Marguerite Contance, called Constance, posthumously in November 1818--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1806 and 1818.  Joseph, fils died in St. James Parish in June 1818.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 35 when he died.  He was 32.  Daughter Constance married into the Blouin family.  Three of his sons also married, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Oldest son Joseph Léon, also called Jacques, married cousin Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bergeron and Marine Landry, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in November 1824.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Joseph Michel Léonard in October 1825; Marie Octavie in November 1827; Marie Clémence Amelia in November 1829; Émilie Marie dite Irma, also called Amélie Irma and Marie Irma, in May 1831; Marie Honorine Olive in February 1833 but died "at her fathers," age 24, in May 1857; Marie Paulisix born in February 1835 but, called Marie Pauline Poliska, died "at her fathers," age 18, in October 1853, victim, perhaps, of a yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; and Désirée died at age 3 months in December 1836--seven children, a son and six daughters, between 1825 and 1836.  Joseph Léon may have died in St. James Parish in October 1847.  If so, he would have been age 41.  The recording priest at St. James church said Joseph was age 40 and that he had "d. at his home and inhumed by Rev. Father [Pierre] Ladavière [then the pastor at Convent], due to illness of Rev. [Auguste] Martin," the pastor at St. James Church.  Daughters Marie Octavie and Irma married into the Simoneaux and Chevet families.  Joseph Léon's son also married.

Only son Joseph Michel Léonard married cousin Marie, daughter of Daniel Blouin and his Acadian wife Marguerite Constance Arceneaux, at the St. James church in 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

Joseph, fils's second son Félix married cousin Domitille, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Arceneaux and Marie Éloise LeBlanc, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in October 1830.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Constance Vellida or Veleda, called Veleda, in September 1831; and Marie Noémie in December 1833.  Félix died near Convent in August 1840, age 32.  Widow Domitille did not remarry and died "at her mother's widow Michael Bergeron" in St. James Parish in June 1851, age 41.  Daughter Veleda married into the Barthélémy family by 1870.  Félix evidently fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, may have died with him. 

Joseph, fils's third son Vital married Marie Euphrasie, called Euphrasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Poirier and Marie Landry, at the St. James church in February 1834.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Michel Nicolas Vtimen, called Euthymese, in November 1834; Marie Eudalie in October 1836; Vital, fils in c1837 but died at age 12 in June 1849; Marie Philamène born in October 1838; Marie Louise in November 1840; Marie Rebecca Louise in November 1841; Marie Fedora in February 1843; Marie Constance in May 1845; Marie Lotitia in December 1847; and Poleska in late 1853 but died the following June--10 children, two sons and eight daughters, between 1834 and 1853.  The family lived in New Orleans during the early 1850s.  None of Vital's daughters married by 1870, but his remaining son did and settled on the western prairies. 

Older son Euthymese married Élodie Picard, place and date unrecorded.  She evidently gave him no children.  He remarried to Louison, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Guilbeau and Clémence Potier and widow of Jérome Étie Valéry Arthur Bulliard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1866. ...

Jean's third son Guillaume followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and back to the river, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Gaudet and Marie Hébert, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in March 1786.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Charles-Guillaume in January 1787; Joseph-Louis in March 1788; Anne-Françoise, called Françoise, in July 1790; Rosalie-Marguerite or Marguerite-Rosalie in November 1792; Henriette-Éloise in January 1795; Jean-Baptiste-Valéry in January 1797; Joseph-Zénon in March 1799; twins Raymond and Rosémond in March 1801; Marie-Josèphe or -Joséphine in March 1803; and Henriette in March 1806 but died at age 9 1/2 in August 1815--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1787 and 1806.  Guillaume died in St. James Parish in December 1818, age 56.  None of his children married fellow Acadians.  Daughters Françoise, Rosalie, and Joséphine married into the Cox, Tassin, and Pahud families.  Only one of Guillaume's many sons married, but the line did not endure. 

Third son Jean Baptiste Valéry married Alexandrine, daughter of Antoine Maxent and Marguerite Mollère, at the St. James church in April 1817.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marie Armelise in January 1818; and Marie Uranie in May 1819 but, called Uranie, died at age 4 1/2 in October 1823.  Jean Baptiste died in Ascension Parish in September 1820, age 23.  Daughter Marie Armelise married into the Engeron family, so the blood of the family line may have endured.   

Third daughter Héloise, also called Éloise, evidently did not marry, but she gave birth to sons Joseph Vital and Joseph in St. James Parish in September 1832 and August 1836.  The priest who recorded the boys' baptisms in February 1839 did not identify the boys' father(s) or give the mother's parents' names.  Héloise also had a son named Marcellin, born likely in the 1840s, who married first cousin Modestine, daughter of Joseph Baptiste Tassin, at the St. James church in April 1869.  Significantly, Modestine's mother was Rosalie Arceneaux, probably Héloise's sister, because the couple had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Héloise's sons evidently considered themselves Arceneauxs. 

Jean's fourth son Pierre-Paul, called Paul and Hippolyte, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou Teche, and back to the river, where he married Élisabeth or Isabelle Fontenot probably at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in the late 1780s.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Claire or Clarice in July 1789; Renné or Reine in January 1792; Zénon in c1793; Simon in June 1794; and a son, name unrecorded, in c1795 but died at age 1 in January 1797--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1789 and 1795.  Pierre Paul died in St. James Parish in September 1804, age 42.  Daughters Reiné and Clarice married into the Gaudin, Poirier, and Mire families.  Only one of Paul's sons married, but the line did not endure. 

Oldest son Zénon married Marie Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melançon and Osite Barbe LeBlanc, at the St. James church in January 1813.  Their children, born near Convent, included Adélaïde in December 1814 but died at age 21 in January 1836; Théogène born in January 1817 but died at age 6 in September 1823; and Zénon, fils born in January 1819--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1814 and 1819.  Zénon, père died in St. James Parish in October 1819, age 27.  One of his sons married, but the line did not endure. 

Younger son Zénon, fils married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Adélaïde Melançon, at the Convent church in January 1837; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Louise in December 1837; Barbe Aglaé, called Aglaé, in November 1839; Émilie in December 1841 but, called Amélie, died at age 4 in November [1845]; and Madeleine Alphonsine born in April 1844--four children, all daughters, between 1837 and 1844.  Zénon, fils died near Convent in April 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Zenon died at "age 34 years."  He was 32.  Daughters Marie Louise, Aglaé, and Madeleine Alphonsine married into the Matherne, Melançon, and Gravois families.  Zénon, fils evidently fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Jean's fifth son François married Ludivine, also called Luce and Lucie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Breaux and Marie Benoit, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1789.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Charles-Simon or Simon-Charles in February 1792; François-Benjamin, called Benjamin, in December 1794 but died at age 5 in November 1799; and Marie-Célise in September 1800--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1792 and 1800.  François died in St. James Parish in April 1810, age 37.  One of his sons married. 

Older son Simon Charles married Françoise or Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marguerite LeBlanc, at the St. James church in May 1811.  Their children, born in St. James Parish, included Marguerite Célestine in July 1813 but, called Célestine, died at age 6 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in April 1820; François Forestin born in February 1815 but, called François Faustin, died at age 3 in January 1819; Simon Léon born in September 1816 but died near Convent, age 28 (the recording priest said 30), in April 1845; Charles Félix, called Félix, born in December 1818; and Jacques Jules, called Jules, in November 1821--five children, a daughter and four sons, between 1813 and 1821.  Simon died in St. James Parish in October 1822, age 30.  Two of Simon Charles's sons married and settled on the river. 

Third son Charles Félix, called Félix, married Marie Virginie, called Virginie, daughter of Jacques Mainville, Mainvielle, or Mienvielle and Delphine Mayer, at the Convent church in April 1837.  Their children, born near Convent, included Élisabeth in c1837 but died at age 18 in June 1855; Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, born in August 18[3]9; Louis Félix in August 1842 but, called Félix, fils, died at age 2 in August 1844; Marie Félicie born in March 1845 but died at age 1 in October 1846; François Simon born in January 1848; Marie Odilia in February 1851 but, called Marie, died at age 4 1/2 in June 1855; and Marie Virginie born in February 1854--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1837 and 1854.  Daughter Mélanie married into the Babin family by 1870.  Charles Félix's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Simon Charles's fourth and youngest son Jacques Jules, called Jules, married Louise Stephanie, called Stephanie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Gaudin and Scholastique Hébert, at the Convent church in April 1847.  Their children, born near Convent, included Barbe Uranie in December 1848; Mathilde in January 1850; Joseph Léon in January 1852, François Elphége in February 1853, Marie Léontine in May 1854; Michel Oscar in February 1857; and Albert in June 1859 but died at age 1 in June 1860--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1848 and 1859.  None of Jacques Jules's children married by 1870. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Laurent married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourgeois and Ludivine Granger, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1792.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Carmélite in January 1793; Dyonisio, also called Denise-Félicité and Félicité, in December 1796; Marie-Madeleine in February 1798; Célestine or Céleste in March 1800; Azélie, also called Marie Azélie, in March 1803; Désiré in November 1804; Doralise in the late 1800s or early 1810s; and Evariste in April 1813--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1793 and 1813.  Laurent died in St. James Parish in February 1824, age 50.  Daughters Carmélite, Marie Madeleine, Céleste, Félicité, Marie Azélie, and Doralise married into the Michel, Richard, Mire, Blouin, Dicharry, and Savoie families.  Laurent's sons also married on the river. 

Older son Désiré married Marie Céleste, called Céleste, Enger or Hinger probably in St. James Parish in the early 1820s.  Their daughter Marie Corrine was born in St. James Parish in March 1826.  Désiré, at age 26, remarried to Anne Gracieuse or Gratieuse, daughter of Jacques Dicharry and his Acadian wife Clémence Dugas, at the Convent church in June 1831.  Their children, born near Convent, included Françoise Irma in March 1832; Marie Adelise or Adeline Gracieuse in April 1834; and Désiré, also called Laurent Désiré and L. Désiré, in November 1838--four children, three daughters and a son, by two wives, between 1826 and 1838.  Désiré, père may have died near Convent in October 1841.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Désiré was age 30 when he died.  If this was him, he would have been age 36.  His widow Gracieuse did not remarry and died in Ascension Parish, age 35, in June 1849.  Daughters Marie Corrine, François Irma, and Adeline Gracieuse, by both wives, married into the LeBlanc, Mollère, and Poirier families.  After his war service, Désiré's son also married and settled on the river.

Only son Laurent Désiré, by second wife Anne Gracieuse Dicharry, served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Laurent Désiré was present with his company from his enlistment in September 1861 until early 1864, when he was reported absent without leave.  He probably did not return to his battery.  The Federals paroled him at Natchitoches in June 1865, so he may have joined another Confederate unit when he came home without leave.  Laurent Désiré married cousin Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Theriot and his Creole wife Elize Comes, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Léonie in January 1867; Laurent Désiré, fils in October 1868; Marie Corine in December 1870; ... 

Laurent's younger son Evariste married Marie Belzire, called Belzire, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbin Breaux and Anne Marcellite Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1834.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Félicité in May 1837; Marie Estelle in April 1838; Marguerite Eliska in August 1840 but, called Eliska, died near Baton Rouge, age 19, in June 1860; Geneviève Laurentine born in January 1843; Hélène Victoria, called Victoria, in July 1845; Evariste Désiré in February 1848; Joséphine Lydie in September 1850; and Philomène Émelise in August 1853--eight children, seven daughters and a son, between 1837 and 1853.  Evariste, père died near Baton Rouge in October 1853, age 40 (the recording priest said 41), victim, perhaps, of a yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall.  Daughters Joséphine and Victoria married into the Cannon and Keller families by 1870.  Evariste's son did not marry by then. 

Joseph (c1740-1790s) à Abraham à Pierre Arceneaux

Joseph, second son of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Hébert, born at Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, in c1740, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755.  While in exile, he married Marie, daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Ambroise and Marguerite Dugas of Rivière St.-Jean, in the early 1760s.   Soon after their marriage, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  They appeared on a repatriations list at Halifax in August 1763.  They had no children.  Like older brother Jean and his family, Joseph and Marie came to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65, followed them to lower Bayou Teche in April 1765, and, like his brother and his family, retreated to Cabahannocer on the river that autumn to escape an epidemic that struck the Teche valley community.  Joseph and Marie remained on the river.  They evidently lived in New Orleans briefly during the late 1760s, but they were back at Cabannnocer by September 1769, when Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river there.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie-Anne in November 1766 and baptized as Marie-Françoise at New Orleans in May 1767; Scholastique baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in February 1772; Jean-Charles baptized, age unrecorded, in July 1774; Josèphe baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1776; Joseph, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1777; Auguste or Augustin born in c1778; and Marie-Modeste baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1779--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1766 and 1779.  Joseph died probably at Cabahannocer by February 1798, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  He would have been in his late 50s that year.  Daughters Marie-Anne, Scholastique, and Marie-Modeste married into the LeBlanc, Bourgeois, and Mire families.  Two of Joseph's sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Part and Marguerite Melançon, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1799.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Édouard in November 1799 but died in St. James Parish, age 46, in January 1846; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in August 1801; Joseph-Simon, called Simon, born in September 1802; Marie dite Mélite in May 1804; Jean Amédée, called Amédée, in March 1806; a son, name and age unrecorded, died in April 1808; Marie Eulalie born in January 1808; Joseph le jeune in December 1810; Marguerite Eugènie baptized, age 1 month, in November 1813; and Pierre Joachim, called Joachim, born in February 1815 but died at age 55 in August 1870--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1799 and 1815.  Jean Charles died in St. James Parish in January 1816.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 45 when he died.  He was 41.  Daughter Marie dite Mélite married into the LeBlanc family.  Only two of Jean Charles's sons married, to sisters, but one of the lines may not have endured.  Two other sons lived well into their middle age but probably did not marry. 

Third son Joseph Simon, called Simon, married Jane Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel David and his Creole wife Marie Louise Denis, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in May 1836.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie Aglaé in August 1837; Marie Odile or Odilia, called Odilia, in January 1840; and Augustin in June 1843--three children, two daughters and a son,, between 1837 and 1843.  Simon died near Convent in October 1861.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon died at "age 48 years."  He was 59 and a widower.  Daughters Marie Aglaé and Odilia married into the Cantrelle and Decarraux families by 1870.  Simon's son did not marry by then. 

Jean Charles's fourth son Jean Amédée, called Amédée, married Carmélite, another daughter of Michel David and Marie Louise Denis, at the Convent church in October 1837.  Their children, born near Convent, included Lise Émilia in June 1838; and Marie Adhelma in January 1840.  He likely was the Amédée Arceneaux who died near Convent in December 1850.  The Convent priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Amédée died at "age 32 years," but this Amédée would have been 44.  Neither of his daughters married by 1870. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Auguste or Augustin married Marcelline or Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Gaudin and Marie Broussard, at the Convent church in September 1810.  Their children, born near Convent, included Marie in October 1810; Auguste or Augustin, fils, in November 1814 but died at age 23 (the recording priest said 22) in May 1838; another Marie born in August 1817; Augustine in April 1821; Corinne Agenie in October 1823; and Lucien in August 1825--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1810 and 1825.  Augustin, père died near Convent in November 1842.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Augustin died at "age 65 yrs."  Daughter Augustine married into the Bourgeois family.  Augustin's remaining son also married, but the line may not have endured. 

Younger son Lucien married Célina, daughter of Francois Boze or Folse and Marie Aimée Trouflox, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1852.  Daughter Marie Aimée was born posthumously in Ascension Parish in September 1853.  Lucien died in Ascension Parish in June 1853, age 27. 

Pierre, fils (c1749-?) à Abraham à Pierre Arceneaux

Pierre, fils, third and youngest son of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Hébert of Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, was, according to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, born there in c1749.  He evidently escaped the British roundup in the fall of 1755, took refuge with his family on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area, and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  He likely came to Louisiana from Halifax with his older brothers and a sister in 1764-65, followed them and the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, and retreated with his siblings to Cabahannocer on the river that autumn.  Pierre, fils married Marie, daughter, probably, of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Marguerite Bernard of Rivière St.-Jean, at Cabahannocer in 1766 or 1767.  Their children, born on the river, included Françoise-Julienne in November 1768 and baptized at New Orleans the following April; Pierre III born in c1770; Jean le jeune in c1772; and Alexandre baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in April 1777--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1768 and 1777.  In January 1777, Spanish officials counted Pierre, fils, his wife, and two sons, on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  None of Pierre, fils's children seem to have created families of their own, so this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Pierre le jeune (c1731-1790s) à Pierre, fils à Pierre Arceneaux

Pierre, son of Jean Arseneau and Marie-Jeanne Hébert of Pointe-de-Beauséjour, Chignecto, born there in c1731, escaped the British roundup in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During exile, he married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Marguerite Dugas of Rivière St.-Jean, in c1757.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted Pierre, Anne, and a child, probably newborn daughter Marie-Catherine dite Rosalie, born on Georges Island, Halifax harbor, in August 1763.  They came to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65.  With Pierre was his wife and infant daughter as well as an older, widowed sister.  Pierre was one of the signers of the Dauterive agreement at New Orleans, which means he was considered to be one of the leaders of the Broussard party.  That spring, he and his family followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche but retreated to Cabahannocer on the river that autumn to escape an epidemic that struck the Teche community, and there they remained for two decades.  Their other children, born at Cabahannocer, included Marie-Jeanne in c1766; Françoise in c1768; Louis in c1770; Pierre, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1773; Alexandre baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1774; François baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1779; and Pierre Cyprien, called Cyprien, born in c1787--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1763 and 1787, in greater Acadia and Louisiana.  Pierre did better than most Acadians at Cabahannocer.  In March 1779, Spanish officials counted a dozen slaves on his farm along the river, an astonishing number for an Acadian exile at that time.  Nevertheless, during the late 1780s, in violation of Spanish policy, he and his family returned to the western prairies.  In April 1786, Pierre "obtained title, through an order of survey, to a tract of land measuring 40x40 arpents between present-day Carencro and Beaubassin" on upper Bayou Vermilion.  Pierre became a successful rancher in the area.  He owned 400 head of cattle at the time of his death.  His succession was filed at what would become the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in 1793.  He would have been in his early 60s that year.  Daughters Marie Catherine dite Rosalie, Françoise, and Marie-Jeanne married into the Breaux, Carmouche, and Guilbeau families on the river and the prairies.  All five of Pierre le jeune's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  His many descendants settled in a number of communities west of the Atchafalaya Basin--on the prairies southwest of Opelousas, on lower Bayou Teche as far down as Charenton, and especially in the Carencro-Grand Coteau area of Lafayette and St. Landry parishes. 

Oldest son Louis married Marie Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Breaux and Marie LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in May 1788; Anne's brother was a husband of Louis's oldest sister Rosalie.  Louis and Anne followed his parents to the western prairies, though Louis retained ownership of land at Cabahannocer.  He inherited from his father a 6x80-arpent holding on upper Bayou Vermilion in the early 1790s.  He named his home after the settlement in Acadia where his father was born.  His and Anne's children, born on the upper Vermilion, included Louis Joachim, called Joachim, in March 1791; Marie-Cidalise, called Cidalise, baptized, age 4 months, in May 1795; Marguerite born in March 1797; Alexandre Toussaint, called Laissin and Toussaint, in December 1798 but died at age 35 in January 1834 (his succession was filed at the Lafayette Parish courthouse the following December); and Céleste born in July 1801 but died at age 2 1/2 in January 1804--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1791 and 1801.  Louis died at "Beau Bassin," his home near Carencro, in March 1812.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, which took place "in the parish cemetery," said that Louis died at age 44.  He may have been a couple of years younger.  His succession, naming his remaining children and calling him a widower, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse soon after his death.  Widow Anne's first succession was not filed until December 1829, at the Lafayette Parish courthouse.  A second succession for her was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in February 1831.  Her and Louis's daughters Cidalise and Marguerite married into the Mouton and Sonnier families.  Only one of Louis's sons married but fathered no children.  This line of the family, then, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Older son Louis Joachim, called Joachim, married Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bernard and Madeleine Broussard of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1811.  Joachim died in Lafayette Parish in August 1834.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joachim died "at age 37 yrs."  He was 43.  His succession, calling him Joissin and naming his wife, was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in December 1844.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children, at least none who appear in local church records, so his family line probably died with him.

Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Cormier and his second wife Anne Michel, at Opelousas in April 1792.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Pierre, also called Pierre Cyprien, le jeune and Cyprien, near Opelousas in November 1793; and Marie-Louise died at 11 days in September 1795.  Pierre, fils remarried to Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe and Josette, daughter of Pierre Nezat of Layrac, France, and Madeleine Provost of Fort de Chartres, Illinois, at Attakapas in February 1802.  Their children, born at Attakapas, included Pierre Émile, called Émile, in November 1802; Louis Sosthène, called Sosthène, in March 1804; Marie Josèphe in December 1805 but died at age 8 1/2 in June 1814; Joséphine in c1806; Marie Euphrosine or Euphrasie born in May 1808; Pierre Joseph in February 1810; Pierre Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, in December 1811; and Pierre Sosthène in April 1813--10 children, six sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1793 and 1813.  Pierre, fils died at his home near Carencro in August 1814, age 41.  His widow Marie Josette's successions were filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1830 and the Vermilionville courthouse in July 1834; she does not seem to have remarried.  Her and Pierre, fils's daughters Marie Euphrasie and Joséphine married into the Bernard, Theriot, and Vavasseur families.  One of them settled on the river.  All six of Pierre, fils's sons married, two to first cousins, but not all of the lines endured.  Most of them, in fact, probably did not. 

Oldest son Pierre Cyprien le jeune, called Cyprien, from first wife Clémence Cormier, married cousin Marie Brigitte Aglae, called Brigitte and Aglaé, daughter of François Carmouche and his Acadian wife Françoise Arceneaux, at the St. Martinville church in April 1816.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Françoise in July 1817; Marie Ameline, Amelina, or Clemelina in December 1819; Marie, probably Marie Zéopha, in July 1821; Louise in April 1823 but died at age 1 in June 1824; Marie Brigide born in 1827 and baptized at age 5 months in March 1828; Pierre le jeune, also called Saintdoux, born in c1830 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2, in May 1832 but died at age 10 in October 1840; Erasie born in January 1832; and François, also called François Ovignac and Ovignac, in early 1834 and baptized at age 11 months in February 1835--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1817 and 1834.  Daughters Marie Clemelina and Marie Zéopha married into the Delhomme and Prejean families by 1870.  One of Cyprien's sons also married by then. 

Younger son François Ovignac, called Ovignac, married cousin Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Rosémond Breaux and Calixte Arceneaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1857.  They settled at Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Marie Olivia in March 1858; a child, name unrecorded, died at birth in April 1859; François Ambroise born in July 1860; Pierre Ovide, called Ovide, in January 1862; Sosthènes Alexandre in September 1863; Brigitte Amanda in February 1866; Kalice Alida in November 1867; Joseph Ganidos in March 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Ovignac served in Company C of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment Louisiana Infantry, which fought in Louisiana.  As the birth date of his fourth son reveals, he survived the war and returned to his family.  None of his children married by 1870.  Ovignac died at Carencro in February 1894, age 60. 

Pierre, fils's second son Pierre Émile, called Émile, from second wife Josette Nezat, married Marie Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breaux and Mathide Broussard, at the St. Martinville church in December 1821.  Their children, born near Carencro, included Pierre Émile, fils, called Émile, in July 1824; Marie Émilie in March 1826; Marie Joséphine baptized a day after her birth in November 1828 but died less than a week later; Louis Joseph baptized at Vermilionville six days after his birth in November 1829; and Marie Josette born in August 1831 but died at age 8 1/2 in November 1839--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1824 and 1831.  Émile died in Lafayette Parish in July 1847, age 44 (the recording priest said 43).  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1848.  Daughter Marie Émilie married into the Valière family.  Émille's two sons also married.

Older son Pierre Émile, fils, called Émile, fils, married Marie Alzina or Alzire, also called Alzina and Alezinore, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Fabien Richard and Eugénie Savoie, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1849.  They settled on the prairie near the boundary between St. Landry and Lafayette parishes.  Their children, born there, included Eugénie Alphoncine in May 1850; Louis Sostène le jeune in September 1851; Marie Amyntha in June 1853; Louise in February 1855; Pierre Émile III in March 1857 but, called Émile, died at age 9 in September 1866; Marie born in October 1858; Marie Azélie in May 1861; Cécile in December 1862; ...  Daughter Eugénie married into the Joubert family by 1870.  Pierre Émile, fils's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Émile's younger son Louis Joseph married double cousin Marie Amélie, called Amélie and Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Émilien Arceneaux and Céleste Breaux, at the Opelousas church in April 1852.  They settled near the boundary between St. Landry and Lafayette parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Alicia in May 1854; François Alexandre in July 1855; Louis Adalbert in April 1858; a child, name unrecorded, perhaps theirs, died "at age a few weeks" in Lafayette Parish in February 1860; Bibian Émilien born in December 1860; Philomène Olympe in October 1862; Pierre Joseph le jeune in June 1864; Pierre Clément in November 1866; Louis Barthélémy in August 1868; Jesitte Emérente in March 1870; ...  None of Louis Joseph's children married by 1870. 

Pierre, fils's third son Louis Sosthène, called Sosthène, from second wife Josette Nezat, married cousin Marie Euphanie, called Fannie, daughter of French Canadian Solastie Roy and his Creole Marie Nezat, at the St. Martinville church in November 1830.  They settled in Lafayette Parish.  Their children, born in there, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died there 2 hours after her birth in March 1832; Marie Sosthène baptized at Vermilionville, age 2 months, in October 1833 but died the following May; and Eve Marie Josette born in October 1838 but died at age 1 (the recording priest said 18 months) in August 1839--three three children, all daughters, between 1832 and 1838.  Louis Sosthène died in Lafayette Parish in September 1839.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Louis was age 33 when he died.  He was 35.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in February 1840.  One wonders if he fathered any sons. 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Pierre Joseph, by second wife Josette Nezat, married Marie Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of James Blaire or Blaise and his Acadian wife Marie Céleste Breaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1837.  Daughter Josette Rebecca, also called Marie Josette Rebecca, was baptized at Vermilionville at age 2 months in April 1838.  Wife Joséphine's succession, likely post-mortem, was filed at the Lafayette Parish courthouse in May 1841.  Pierre Joseph's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in March 1852.  He would have been age 42 that year.  Daughter Marie Josette Rebecca married into the Latiolais family, so the blood of the family line endured.   

Pierre, fils's fifth son Pierre Bienvenu, called Bienvenu, by second wife Josette Nezat, married first cousin Marie Adéle, Azèle, or Azélie, also called Azelia, daughter of fellow Acadians François Arceneaux and Marie Mouton, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in June 1838.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Gosette or Josethe Isminie in March 1839 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1843; and Marie Azèlle born in December 1840 but died the following February.  Wife Marie Azélie died in January 1841 probably from complications of childbirth.  Her succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following June and again in July 1870.  Pierre Bienvenu evidently did not remarry.  He died in Lafayette Parish in July 1855, age 43 (the recording priest, who did not give any parents' names nor mentioned a wife, said 42).  Pierre Bienvenu's succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.  His family line died with him. 

Pierre, fils's sixth and youngest son Pierre Sosthène, by second wife Josette Nezat, married first cousin Geneviève Désirée, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Arceneaux and his Creole wife Hélène Carmouche, his uncle and aunt, at the Vermilionville church in December 1838.  Did they have any children?

Pierre, père's third son Alexandre married Hélène, daughter of Pierre Carmouche of Pensacola and Pointe Coupée and Geneviève Rousseau, at Ascension in March 1802.  They settled at Beaubassin on upper Bayou Vermilion east of Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre, fils in June 1803; Geneviève, also Geneviève Caliste, in April 1805; a newborn son, name unrecorded, died in November 1806; twins Paulin and Pauline born in October 1807, but Pauline died in November; Marie Euphrosine born in March 1809; Geneviève Désirée in November 1810; Lazare Terssy, Belcy, or Bercy in September 1812; Marie, also Marie Alexandrine, in February 1814; and Claire Armante in c1818 but died at age 11 in May 1829--10 children, four sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1803 and 1818.  Alexandre, père died probably at Carencro in September 1833, age 59 (the recording priest said 58).  His successions were filed at the Opelousas and Vermilionville courthouses the following March.  Daughters Marie Euphrosine, Geneviève Caliste, Geneviève Désirée, and Marie Alexandrine married into the Eastin, Breaux, Arceneaux, and Carmouche families, one of them in Pointe Coupée.  Alexandre had adopted Mary Arceneaux, whose son Alexandre le jeune was baptized at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, age 2 1/2, in July 1839.  Three of Alexandre's sons also married, one of them to a free woman of color. 

Oldest son Alexandre, fils married mulatresse affranchie, or free mulata, Mary Balqué or Beck, former slave of Joseph Balqué, free man of color, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1860; the recording priest noted that the couple had been living together "25 or 26 years."  Daughter Alexandrine was born in late 1836 or early 1837, baptized at Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in July 1839, and married into the Fuselier family.

Alexandre, père's third son Paulin, a twin, married Céleste Armillionne or Erminionne, daughter of André Martin, a French Creole, not a fellow Acadian, and his Acadian wife Gertrude Sonnier, at the Vermilionville church in December 1828.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included André Destival in 1829 and baptized at Vermilionville, age 8 months, in June 1830; Alexandre Seveigny or Sevigné, called Sevigné, born in early 1831 and baptized at age 13 months in May 1832; Marie Coraïde or Coralie, called Coralie, baptized at age 4 months in June 1833; Déma or Demas baptized at age 6 months in October 1835; Luma born in 1838 and baptized at age 15 months in August 1839; Estras born in 1840 and baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1841; Gertrude born in November 1842; Marie Agnèz in January 1847; Marie Céleste in December 1850; and a child, name and age unrecorded, died in January 1852--10 children, at least five sons and four daughters, between 1829 and 1852.  Daughter Coralie married into the Dominguez family by 1870.  Three of Paulin's sons also married by then. 

Second son Alexandre Sevigné, called Sevigné, married Marie Azéoline, called Zéoline, Azadine, Claline, and perhaps also Azélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Brasseaux and Valiene Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in April 1852.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Émelina, called Émelina, in November 1843 [the record probably meant 1853]; Joseph Ebeard in March 1856; Paul Duplessis in May 1859; Adam in June 1861; Joseph Israel in May 1863; Jean Jacques in November 1865; and Marie Angelina in August 1868.  Alexandre Sevigné may have remarried to Marguerite Valérie, called Valérie, daughter of fellow Acadian André Prejean and widow of Joachim Richard, at the Vermilionville church in July 1870. ...  Daughter Émelina, by his first wife, married into the LeBlanc family by 1870. None of Alexandre Sevigné's sons married by then. 

Paulin's third son Demas or Déma married Azélie, also called Célia, Isilia, and Zélia, another daughter of Joseph Brasseaux and Valiene Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in October 1855.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Marie in March 1857; Albert in Lafayette Parish in August 1858; Marie Emethilde in March 1861; Marie Andréa near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in December 1862; Alma in Lafayette Parish in November 1866; Edgard near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in September 1868; Amédé in Lafayette Parish in March 1870; ...

Paulin's fourth son Luma, called Numa by the parish clerk, may have married fellow Acadian Valentine Richard in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1870. ...

Alexandre, père's fourth and youngest son Lazare Terssy, Belcy, or Bercy married Hortense, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Bourgeois and his Creole wife Marcellite Judice, at the Vermilionville church in March 1837.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marcelite Elena or Hélène, called Hélène, in May 1838; Alexandre le jeune in January 1840; Simon Bercy in May 1841; and Marie Armande in November 1844 but, called Armante, died at age 22 in October 1867--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1838 and 1844.  Lazare, called Lazard by the recording priest, died in Lafayette Parish in September 1847.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Lazard was age 30 when he died.  He was 35.  Widow Hortense, having never remarried, died in Lafayette Parish in May 1864, age 53.  Daughter Hélène married into the Broussard and Dufay or Duffay families by 1870.  Neither of Lazare's sons married by then. 

Pierre, père's fourth son François married, at age 34, Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Frédéric Mouton and Anastasie Cormier of the lower Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church in July 1813.  Their children, born near Carencro, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 7 weeks in September 1814; François Émilien or Émilien François, called Émilien and Milien, born in October 1815; Emérente or Eméranthe, also Erémise Emérante and Éloise, in September 1817; Laure in November 1820 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1823; Marie Adèle or Azèlle born in September 1822; and François, fils in September 1824--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1814 and 1824.  François, père filed a succession at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1832, perhaps following the death of wife Marie.  He remarried to Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Breaux and Marguerite Breaux and widow of Cyrille Thibodeaux, at the Vermilionville church in March 1834.  She evidently gave him no more children.  François, père died in Lafayette Parish in May 1838.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 58 when he died.  His post-mortem successions, the first one naming his first wife, the second one mentioning no wife, were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in June 1838 and April 1842.  Daughters Éremise Eméranthe and Marie Azèlle, from his first wife, married into the Comeaux and Arceneaux families.  Both of François's sons married, but neither of the lines seems to have endured. 

Older son Émilien François married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux and his Creole wife Marcellite Carmouche, at the Vermilionville church in February 1833.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included a child, name and age unrecorded, died in November 1833; Marie Amelia or Amélie baptized at age 3 1/2 months in September 1835; Marcelite Letitia born in June 1837; Françoise in March 1839; Marie Emérante in May 1840; and Marceline Joséphine, called Joséphine, in March 1842--six children, five of them daughters, between 1833 and 1842.  Émilien died "at Carencro" in May 1842, age 26.  Daughters Marie Amélie, Marie Emérante, and Joséphine married into the Arceneaux and Dupuis families, two of them to Dupuiss.  If their first child was a son, he did not survive infancy, but the blood of the family line endured. 

François's younger son François, fils married Marie Amelia, called Amelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeaux and Marie Cléonise Savoie, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1850.  Daughter Marie Cordelia was born near Grand Coteau in December 1851. Francois, fils died in Lafayette Parish in January 1860.  The Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Francois died "at age 40 yrs." He was 35.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following September.  His daughter did not marry by 1870.  He evidently fathered no sons. 

Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Pierre Cyprien, called Cyprien, married Adélaïde, another daughter of Jean Frédéric Mouton and Anastasie Cormier, at Attakapas in May 1805.  They also settled at Beaubassin near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Cyprien, fils at his uncle Louis's home at Beaubassin in July 1806; François Aurelien, called Aurelien, in February 1808; Marie Malvina in December 1809 but died in September 1810; Simon Ursin, called Ursin, born in July 1811 but died at age 8 in January 1819; Azélie in c1812 but died "at age about 8 or 9 years" in October 1820; Joseph Joachim, called Joachim, born in March 1813 but died at age 2 in September 1815; Marie Azélie born in December 1814; Agerin in December 1816; Rosalie, also called Rosalie Céleste and Céleste, in September 1818; Marie dite Belzire in July 1820; Jean Pierre in May 1822; Clara in April 1824 but died at age 16 1/2 in March 1841; Louis Lucien born in March 1826; Anastasie in February 1828 but died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 1 1/2) in October 1831; and Laure in January 1831 but died the following October--15 children, seven sons and eight daughters, between 1806 and 1831.  Cyprien, père died in Lafayette Parish in May 1832, age 45.  His successions, the first one naming his widow and children--Céleste, Agerin, Belzire, Jean Pierre, Clara, and Lucien--were filed at the Opelousas courthouse in June 1832 and the Vermilionville courthouse in April 1833, so he must have owned propery in St. Landry as well as Lafayette Parish.  Daughters Marie Belzire and Céleste married into the Bin and Ynogass or Inogoso families.  Four of Cyprien's sons married.  Two of them settled on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Cyprien, fils married Marie Bonne or Labonne, called Bonne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Breaux and his Creole wife Marcellite Carmouche, at the Vermilionville church in June 1829.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included a child, name unrecorded, died at age 5 days in April 1830; Joseph Romaire baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 months, in September 1831; Cyprien Maismain born in December 1832; Hippolyte Nicolas baptized at age 4 months in April 1835; Pierre Edmond baptized at age 1 month in December 1836; Petronille baptized at age 1 1/2 months in June 1839; twins Azélie and Clarisse born in March 1841, but Clarisse may have died in Lafayette Parish, age 26 (the recording priest said 18), in September 1867; Clara born in January 1843; Marie Belzire, called Belzire, near Grand Coteau in July 1849[sic]; Eusèbe in August 1849[sic]; and Tercie, perhaps a daughter, in c1850 but died at age 7 in November 1857--a dozen children, at least five sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, between 1830 and 1850.  Cyprien, fils died in Lafayette Parish in January 1852.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Cyprien died "at age over 40 yrs."  He was 45.  His estate record, not post-mortem, had been filed at the Opelousas courthouse in May 1847.  Daughters Azélie, Clara, Petronelle, and Belzire married into the Canaudelat, Baquet, Johnson, Stemmam, and Tatman/Arseman families, one of them, Petronelle, twice, and another, Belzire, at Ville Platte in what became Evangeline Parish.  Three of Cyprien, fils's sons also married. 

Second son Cyprien Maismain married Marie Azénaïde, called Azénaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyprien Mouton and Eliza Dugas, at the Vermilionville church in February 1854.  Their children, born on the prairies and the lower Teche, included Lucien in Lafayette Parish in March 1856; Stanislaus Albert near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1858; Eustache Romain in Lafayette Parish in September 1860; and Dominique in November 1862.  Wife Azénaïde died a little over two weeks after son Dominique was born, probably of complications from giving him birth.  Cyprien remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Aphanelie, called Fanelie, Dugas, widow of Aurelien Chiasson, at the Vermilionville church in September 1864.  Their children, born in Lafayette Parish, included Marie Mathilda in December 1865; Marie Louise in February 1868 but died the following July; Cyprien Adam born in May 1870; ...

Cyprien, fils's third son Hippolyte Nicolas married Azélima, also called Adelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Benoit and Anastasie Babineaux, at the Vermilionville church in May 1854.  They settled near Carencro.  Their children, born there, included Joseph in January 1856; Marie Élizabeth in November 1857 but, called Marie, died at age 10 months in September 1858; Louis Pancrase born in May 1860; Eve Hélène in January 1864; Erma Améline in April 1866; Edmond in December 1867; Edmonia in November 1869; ..  During the War of 1861-65, Hippolyte served as an officer's cook in Company K of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  As the births of his younger children reveal, he survived the war and returned to his family. 

Cyprien, fils's fourth son Pierre Edmond married Justine, daughter of Juste Bertinot or Bertinos and Brigitte Stelly, at the Grand Coteau church in April 1867.  Their children, born near Grand Coteau, included Juste Cyprien in September 1868; Marie Justine in November 1869; ... 

Cyprien, père's second son François Aurelien, called Aurelien, married Anglo Creole Mary Andrews or Andrus in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1835.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Aurelia in 1836 and baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 7 months, in January 1837; Marie Godrot or Godric born in March 1838; Marie Anastaise in October 1840 but, called Anastasie, died at age 16 in November 1856; Françoise Belsire born in February 1843; François Connas near Grand Coteau in December 1846; Louis Bellanger in June 1848; John Sidney near Church Point, then in St. Landry but now in Acadia Parish, in January 1851; Charles Hiram in October 1853; Omer in December 1855; and Moïse in March 1858--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1836 and 1858.  Daughters Aurelia, Marie Godric, and Françoise Belsire married into the Andrus, Broussard, and Lyons families by 1870.  One of Aurelien's sons also married by then. 

Second son Louis Bellanger, called Louis B. by the recording clerk, married Anglo American Mary Wingate in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1869. ...

Cyprien, père's fifth son Agerin married fellow Acadian Rose Labauve probably at New Iberia in the early 1840s.  Their children, born on the lower Teche, included Alderie Félix near Charenton, St. Mary Parish, in May 1847; and Marie Clara, called Clara, in October 1850.   Daughter Clara married into the Lyons family at Church Point on the prairies by 1870.  Agerin's son did not marry by then. 

Cyprien, père's sixth son Jean Pierre married Félicia Félicité, daughter of Honoré Buquois and his wife Eugénie ____, at the New Iberia church in September 1842.  Their children, born on the lower Teche and the prairies, included Ambroise near New Iberia in February 1848; Adélaïde Avantine in Lafayette Parish in November 1850; Marie Ophelia in December 1852; Jean Pierre, fils in June 1855; and Zitus near New Iberia in October 1857--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1848 and 1857.  None of Jean Pierre's children married by 1870. 

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Later in 1765, at least seven more Arseneaus came to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, but they did not follow their kinsmen to lower Bayou Teche.  They chose, instead, to remain at Cabahannocer on the river, where some of their Teche valley kinsmen soon joined them.  Another vigorous family line came of it on Bayou Lafourche and the prairies:    

Pierre (c1735-1760) à Abraham à Pierre Arceneaux

Pierre, son of perhaps Jean-Baptiste Arseneau and Anne Cyr, born at Chignecto in c1735, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour and Anastasie Bourg of Rivière St.-Jean, in c1760 perhaps at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  The British may have captured them soon after their marriage, or they may have surrendered to British forces after the fall of Restigouche and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted Pierre, Marie-Josèphe and an unnamed child, probably infant son Eusèbe, at the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, in August 1763.  They followed their kinsmen to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Another son, Pierre, fils, was born to them in 1765 either aboard ship or at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony.  Pierre kept his family at Cabahannocer.  Marie-Josèphe gave him no more children there.  Pierre died at Cabahannocer by September 1769, in his early 30s, when Marie-Josèphe was listed in a Cabahannocer census with her second husband, Basile Préjean.  Both of Pierre's sons created their own families.  His older son settled on upper Bayou Lafourche in the 1790s.  His younger son married twice on the river and joined his cousins on the western prairies about the time his older brother moved to the Lafourche. 

Older son Eusèbe followed his family to New Orleans and Cabahannocer.  Still a teenager, he was living with his stepfather, mother, and siblings on the right, or west, bank of the river at nearby Ascension in April 1777.  Eusèbe married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Marguerite Bernard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in August 1788.  They settled near the boundary between the Cabahannocer and Ascension districts before moving to Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Eusèbe-Alexandre, called Alexandre, at Cabahannocer in July 1789; Louis-Narcisse, called Narcisse, in November 1790 but died in Assumption Parish, age 25, in April 1816; Michel born at Ascension in June 1792; Constance at Cabahannocer in July 1794; Marie-Modeste at Assumption in June 1796; Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, in April 1798; Valéry-Joseph at Cabahannocer in February 1800; Marie-Émilie in January 1802; Alexandre le jeune, called Alex and Merville, at Assumption in May 1803; twins Michel, the second with the name, and Marie Basilise in February 1805, but Michel died at age 2 in September 1807; Marie Doralise born in December 1807; and Pierre Lucien, called Lucien, in October 1809--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1789 and 1809.  Eusèbe died in Assumption Parish in October 1825, age 62.  Daughters Marie Modeste, Constance, Marie Émilie, and Marie Doralise married into the Daigle, Gautreaux, Blanchard, and Theriot families.  Five of Eusèbe's sons also married.  Most of them remained on the upper Lafourche, but some of them settled as far down bayou as Lockport in Lafourche Interior Parish.  A grandson moved to the Gonzales area of Ascension Parish after the War of 1861-65. 

Oldest son Eusèbe Alexandre, called Alexandre, married Marie Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Suliac Blanchard and Marie Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1810.  They settled at Brûlé St. Vincent.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Angèl, a son, died at age 4 months in July 1811; Eusèbe Théodule, called Théodule, born in April 1812; Siméon Suliac in February 1814 but died at age 17 (the recording priest said 19) in July 1831; Marie Basilise, called Baselise, born in June 1816; twins Jean Baptiste and Hubert in May 1818; Élise Zaccarie, also called Élisabeth, in October 1820; a newborn son, name unrecorded, died in March 1825; Marie Alexandrine, called Alexandrine, baptized at Plattenville, age unrecorded, in April 1827; Victoire born in July 1829; and Irma Eléonore in May 1831--11 children, six sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1811 and 1831.  According to a Plattenville church record, an Alexandre Aucoin, "husband of Marie Blanchard," died in Assumption Parish in June 1833, age 46.  This Alexandre would have been a month shy of age 43.  There was no Alexandre Aucoin married to a Blanchard, so this likely was him.   Daughters Baselise, Élise, and Alexandrine married into the Aucoin, Landry, and Hébert families.  Two of Alexandre's remaining sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Second son Théodule married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Aucoin and Marguerite Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in December 1833.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Cyprien Justinien in July 1835 but died at age 9 months (the priest who recorded his burial and did not mention his name said 7 months) in April 1836; and Joseph Pierre born in March 1837.  Théodule remarried to Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Aucoin and Marguerite Daigle, at the Plattenville church in January 1843; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Victorine, called Victorine, in November 1843; Honorine Matilde, called Mathilde, in February 1845; Maximilien or Marcellin Justilien in October 1846; Joseph died an "infant" in November 1848; Clairville born in February 1849; Valsin Aristide Prospère in May 1852; Émile Alcide Gustave near Labadieville in August 1856 but, called Alcide, died the following January; Marguerite Emma born in October 1863; ...   Daughters Victorine, Mathilde, ..., by his second wife, married into the Aucoin and Blanchard families by 1870.  Two of Théodule's sons also married by then.

Second son Joseph Pierre, by first wife Marie Aucoin, married cousin Élisabeth, called Elisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Florentin Blanchard and Émilie Arceneaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1861.  Their children, born near Labadieville, Joseph Alcide in March 1866; Marie Amélie in January 1869 but, called Marie Émilie, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 8 months) in December 1870; ... 

Théodule's third son Marcellin, by second wife Azélie Aucoin, married Élizabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Delaune and Azélie Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in February 1870. ...

Alexandre's fourth or fifth son Hubert, a twin, married Hirma or Irma, daughter of Zénon Rodrigue and Céleste Laguaman of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Plattenville church in May 1840.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Sélima or Célima, called Célima, in March 1841; Marie Zelma or Zulma, called Zulma, in September 1842; Amélie Azéma, called Azéma and Aséma, in June 1844; Numa in c1845 but died at age 7 in December 1852; Philippe born in April 1846; Joseph Arséma in July 1848 but, called Arcement, died at age 3 1/2 (the recording priest said 1 1/2) in March 1852; Jean Baptiste Aima born in November 1851; Rosémond in c1852 or 1853 but died at age 5 in January 1858; Philomène born in August 1853; Eulalie Philoma in February 1858; Alma in January 1862; Louis Léoma, called Léomas, in August 1864; ...  Daughters Célima, Zulma, and Azéma married into the Aucoin, Landry, and Blanchard families by 1870.  None of Hubert's sons married by then. 

Eusèbe's fourth son Jean Baptiste married Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in July 1818.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Pantaléon, called Léon, in July 1819; Marie Luce in April 1821; Félicité Rosalie in January 1824 but, called Marie Rosalie, died at age 13 1/2 in September 1836; Marie Carmélite born in March 1826; Jean Baptiste Apollinaire in February 1829 but died at age 8 1/2 (the recording priest said 9 1/2) in August 1837; Marcellin born in December 1831 but, called Marcellus, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 6) in September 1837; Mélasie Eugénie born in June 1834; and Rosiline or Roseline in December 1837--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1819 and 1837.  Daughters Marie (probably Marie Luce), Mélasie, and Roseline married into the Delaune and Blanchard families, including two Blanchard brothers, by 1870.  Jean Baptiste's remaining son also married.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Pantaléon, called Léon, married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Dubois and Marie Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in October 1844.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Philomène in November 1845; Thérèse in August 1847; Marie Azélide in January 1850; Marie Alisse, Alice, or Alis in October 1851; Louise died a day after her birth in June 1853; Guillmar Joseph Auzémé born in August 1854; a son, name and age unrecorded, died, after a private baptism, in November 1857; Joseph Alcé born in January 1859; Célina Odalie near Raceland on the lower bayou in March 1861; Alisia near Lockport on the lower bayou in October 1863; Marie Donatile baptized at the Lockport church, age unrecorded, in May 1867; ...  Daughters Thérèse, Marie, and Alice married into the Roger, Richard, and Fonseca families by 1870.  None of Léon's sons married by then. 

Eusèbe's fifth son Valéry Joseph married Basilise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Aucoin and Marguerite Bourg, at the Plattenville church in January 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph Drosin died 15 days after his birth in November 1826; Marcellus Eusèbe born in June 1828; Marie Basilise in September 1830; Marie Mélanie, called Mélanie, in May 1832; Alexandre le jeune in April 1834 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1837; Octave Joseph born in February 1836 but, called Joseph, died at age 9 1/2 in August 1845; Estella Augustine, called Augustine, born in November 1838; Rosalie Mathilde in October 1841; Jules Lucien in December 1844; and Olésiphore in c1846 but died at age 15 months in January 1848--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1846.  Daughters Rosalie, Augustine, and Mélanie married into the Thibodeaux, Barrilleaux, Trahan, and Prudhomme families, one of them, Mélanie, twice, by 1870.  Valéry Joseph's two remaining sons also married by then, one of them after his war service.

Second son Marcellus married Angèle or Angelina, daughter of Joseph Friou and his Acadian wife Azélie Trahan, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1854.  Their children, born near Pierre Part on Lake Verret in Assumption Parish, included Marie Rosalie in May 1855; Marie Hélène in January 1857; Anastasie Hortense in April 1859; Joseph Jules in October 1861; Marie Augustine in May 1864; Cyprien Joseph in September 1866; ...  None of Marcellus's children married by 1870. 

During the War of 1861-65, Valéry Joseph's fifth son Jules served in Company F of the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia.  The Federals captured him with most of his unit in Lafourche Parish in early December 1862 and released him soon afterwards.  He married cousin Julie, daughter of Rosémond Lagrange and his Acadian wife Léocade Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in April 1866.  Daughter Marie Victorine was born near Labadieville in December 1869; ...

Eusèbe's sixth son Alexandre le jeune, also called Merville, married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Templet and Marie Crochet, at the Plattenville church in May 1832.  Their son Charles Honoré, called Honoré, was born in Assumption Parish in March 1833.  Alexandre le jeune died in Assumption Parish in May 1833, age 30.  His son married and resettled near Gonzales in Ascension Parish. 

Only son Charles Honoré, called Honoré, married cousin Angèle, daughter of fellow Acadians François Crochet and Eulalie Landry, at the Paincourtville church in May 1854.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Eugène in June 1855; and Marie Evela in April 1857.  Honoré remarried to Helena, daughter of fellow Acadian Zénon Bourgeois and his Creole wife Eurasie Lessard, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in January 1867.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Marie Rosémée in October 1867; Zénon Audressy in February 1870; ...  None of Honoré's children married by 1870. 

Eusèbe's eighth and youngest son Pierre Lucien, called Lucien, married Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Theriot and Anne Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in July 1847.  Their son Jean Lucien was born in Assumption Parish in August 1849 and did not marry by 1870.  

Pierre's younger son Pierre, fils followed his family to Cabahannocer, where he married Pélagie, daughter of Jacques Bebe and his Acadian wife Marguerite Landry of Lafourche, in April 1786.  Pélagie likely died in childbirth.  Pierre, fils remarried to Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and Anne-Osite Landry, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in April 1787.  Angélique's parents had come to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussard party but had retreated to Cabahannocer that fall to escape an epidemic.  In the early 1790s, Pierre, fils and Angélique followed his older brother Eusèbe to upper Bayou Lafourche.  In 1798, they moved again, this time to the Attakapas District, where they settled near the Attakapas Post, now St. Martinville.  Their children, born on the river and the prairies, included Pierre III at Cabahannocer in June 1788; Henriette in November 1789; Valentin dit Durville or Surville at Ascension in November 1792; Alexandre probably at Cabahannocer in c1794 and baptized there, age 1, in April 1795; Jean-Baptiste-Valéry born in January 1797; and Nicolas, also called Paul, baptized at Attakapas, age 5 months, in March 1799, two months after his father died--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1788 and 1799.  Pierre, fils died at Attakapas in January 1799, age 34.  Daughter Henriette, by his second wife, married into the Robichaux family and remained on Bayou Lafourche.  Four of his sons also created their own families.  One of them remained on Bayou Lafourche, but the others settled on upper and lower Bayou Teche at Breaux Bridge, New Iberia, and Charenton.  At least one of Pierre, fils's grandsons moved west into Calcasieu Parish. 

Oldest son Pierre III, by second wife Angélique Bourgeois, followed his family to Bayou Lafourche and Attakapas, where he married Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Josaphat Broussard and Marie Françoise Trahan of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1817.  They settled at Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche before moving to the Bayou Lafourche valley in the late 1820s.  They returned to the Teche valley by the early 1830s.  Their children, born there, included Marie Zulma at Fausse Pointe in May 1818; Catherine in July 1819; Françoise Clémence in November 1820 but died at age 14 1/2 in September 1835; Pierre IV born in March 1822; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in July 1824; Marie Delvina or Talvina born in the 1820s; Joseph Rosémond, called Rosémond, in September 1825; Marguerite Géolide or Zéolide in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1827; Nicolas Adrien in December 1828; and Jeanne Marie in St. Martin Parish in November 1832--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1818 and 1832.  Daughters Marie Zulma, Marie Talvina, and Marguerite Zéolide married into the Leleux, Boulet, and Robichaux families on Bayou Teche by 1870.  Two of Pierre III's sons also married by then, to sisters on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Pierre IV married Oliva or Olivia, daughter of Louis Sellers and his Acadian wife Aspasie Boudreaux, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in May 1843.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Gertrude in March 1844; Ursule in June 1845; Pierre V in August 1847; Marcelite in November 1849; and Valérien in c1852 but died at age 4 in October 1856--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1844 and 1852.  None of Pierre IV's children married by 1870. 

Pierre III's third son Joseph Rosémond, called Rosémond, married Marie Célesie, another daughter of Louis Sellers and Aspasie Boudreaux, at the New Iberia church in October 1848.  Joseph Rosémond remarried to Émilie or Amélie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Labauve and Élise Hébert, at the New Iberia church in September 1851.  Their children, born near New Iberia, included Joseph in July 1852 but died at age 6 months the following February; Marie Clémence born in November 1853; Eugène in November 1855; Marie Aspasie in July 1856; Marie Idea in January 1868; and Laure in June 1870--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1852 and 1870.  None of Joseph Rosémond's children married by 1870. 

Pierre, fils's second son Valentin dit Durville or Surville, by second wife Angélique Bourgeois, followed his family to Bayou Lafourche and Attakapas, where he married Anne dite Annette, another daughter of Josaphat Broussard and Marie Françoise Trahan of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in May 1817.  They settled at nearby Petit Anse.  Their children, born there, included Émilie dite Mélite or Émelite  in July 1818; Marcellite in October 1819; Valentine or Valentin Valière, called Valière, in November 1821; and Carmélite in August 1824--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1818 and 1824.  Valentin died at his father-in-law's home at Fausse Pointe in September 1825, age 32.  His succession, which calls him Lurville and lists his wife and four minor children--Mélite, Marcellite, Valentin, and Carmélite--was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1827.  Daughters Marcélitte, Émelite, and Carmélite married into the Dartes, Blanchard, and Brown families, and one of them settled on the river.  Valentin's son also married and settled on the Teche. 

Only son Valentin Valière married Eugénie, daughter of Joseph Patin and his Acadian wife Julienne Robichaux, at the St. Martinville church in October 1852.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Marie Delia in October 1853; Amélie in March 1855; and Nicolas Valière near Breaux Bridge in December 1856--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1853 and 1856.  Valentin Valière may have remarried to cousin Zéolide Arceneaux and settled near New Iberia by the late 1860s. ...  None of Valentin Valière's children married by 1870. 

Pierre, fils's third son Alexandre, by second wife Angélique Bourgeois, followed his family to Bayou Lafourche and Attakapas, where he married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, yet another daughter of Josaphat Broussard and Marie Françoise Trahan of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in July 1820.  They also settled at Fausse Pointe.  Their children, born there, included Amélie in December 1821; Marie in July 1823; Marguerite in September 1825; a son, name unrecorded, died eight days after his birth in May 1827; Étienne born in March 1828; Rosémond in September 1830; Alexandre, fils in December 1831; Alexis Perin in July 1834; and Marie Aspasie in May 1837--nine children, four daughters and five sons, between 1821 and 1837.  Alexandre died in St. Mary Parish in January 1838.  The Franklin priest who recorded the burial noted in French that "trouvé mort dans le grand marais du dft. Claud" (he was found dead in the marshes near a place owned by a fellow named Claude).  The priest also said that Alexandre was age 40 when he died.  He was closer to 44.  His succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse the following July.  Daughters Amélie and Marie married into the Hardy and Verret families.  Three of Alexandre's sons also married.  Two of them remained in St. Mary Parish, but one of them and a grandson moved out to the Calcasieu prairies by the early 1860s.

Second son Étienne married Célestine or Ernestine, daughter of Jean Jacques Dartes and Julienne Loignon, at the Charenton church, St. Mary Parish, in February 1852.  Their children, born near Charenton, included Julie Ernestine in June 1855; Marie Lelia in March 1857; Louis in January 1861; ...  None of Étienne's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's third son Rosémond married Domitille Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simonet Robichaux and Domitille Louvière, at the Charenton church in February 1852.  Their son François Alexandre was born near Charenton in February 1853; and Marie Lucille "in Calcasieu" in December 1856.  Neither of Rosémond's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's fourth son Alexandre, fils married cousin Onesima Broussard, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Alexandre III, born in February 1862, was baptized by a priest from Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, but the family probably was living in Calcasieu Parish at the time.  During the War of 1861-65, Alexandre, fils served in Company F of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Louisiana Infantry, created in November 1863, which fought in Louisiana and Arkansas.  In April 1864, he transferred to the second Company A of Daly's Battalion Texas Volunteer Cavalry, which recruited heavily in southwestern Louisiana.  According to his enrollment papers, Alexandre, fils was age 35 (he actually was 32), stood five feet seven inches, and was a farmer living in Calcasieu Parish when he joined the Texans in Calcasieu in April 1864.  He evidently did not care much for the Texas cavalry.  In late September, five months after his enlistment, Alexandre, fils was arrested as a deserter and sent to the provost marshal's office in Houston (probably a jail) before being returned to his old unit, the Consolidated 18th Louisiana Infantry, then serving in southern Arkansas.  The next month, however, company rolls show him back on duty with Daly's Battalion at Sabine Pass, Texas, where he died of disease in November 1864.  Again, the Confederate rolls got his age wrong.  The military clerk noted that he died at age 35, but he was still 32. 

Pierre, fils's fifth and youngest son Nicolas, also called Paul, from second wife Angélique Bourgeois, did not remain on the Teche.  He married cousin Marie Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Breaux and Marie Anne Bourgeois of Convent, St. James Parish, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1818.  They returned to the Teche but, by the middle 1820s, had moved to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born on the river, the Teche, and the Lafourche, included Rosalie near Convent in September 1819; a child, name unrecorded, died at birth on the Teche in October 1821; Séraphine born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1824; Jean Honoré in May 1826; Azéline Melissar or Mélisaire, called Mélisaire, in July 1828; Nicolas, fils in January 1831; Leufroi died 15 days after his birth in December 1833; Émilie in the 1830s; Louis Désiré born in April 1842; and Onésippe or Onésime probably in the early 1840s--10 children, at least four daughters and five sons, between 1819 and 1840s.  Daughters Rosalie, Séraphine, Mélisaire, and Émilie married into the Roger and Barrios families, three of them to Barrios brothers, by 1870.  Four of Nicolas's sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean Honoré married Marie Césaire, called Césaire, daughter of Jacques Matherne and Marie Sevin, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1852.  Their children, born on the lower bayou, included Gilles Léo near Lockport in September 1853; Adam Victorine in January 1855; Delphine in December 1856; Louis Victorin near Raceland in March 1859; Marie Sophie in August 1861; Angélique Alamantine near Lockport in August 1864; Zéphirin in August 1866; Joseph in March 1870; ...  None of Jean's children married by 1870. 

Nicholas's second son Nicholas, fils married Eugénie, daughter of Jean Adam Lasseigne and Marie Poché, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1855.  Their children, born on the lower bayou, included Marie Neizelle in December 1855; Marie Gracieuse in February 1858; and Désiré Nicolas in June 1860--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1855 and 1860.  None of Nicolas, fils's children married by 1870. 

Nicholas, père's fourth son Louis Désiré married Zéolide, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Melançon and Farelie Savoie, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1860.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Louis, fils near Raceland in January 1863; Marie Félicie near Lockport in June 1866; Marie Félicia in October 1868; ... 

Nicholas, père's fifth and youngest son Onésippe married Aimée Désirée, also called Edesie and Desie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Giroir and Anne dite Nanette Moïse, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1863.  Their children, born near Lockport and on the upper bayou, included Joachim Elphége in August 1864; Marie Sélima in December 1867; Marie Louisiane in Assumption Parish in June 1870; ...   

Firmin (c1753-1776) à ? à Pierre Arceneaux

Firmin Arseneau, born probably at Chignecto in c1753, came to Louisiana from Halifax as a young orphan probably with the family of his kinsman Pierre Arseneau of Pointe-à-Beauséjour.  In April 1766, Spanish officials counted Firmin on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer with the family of his kinsman.  Although he was only age 13 in 1766, the Spanish census taker said that Firmin possessed four arpents of frontage on the river.  The Spanish counted him again at Cabahannocer in September 1769, this time on the right, or west, bank of the river, and still living with Pierre Arceneaux and his family.  Firmin died at Cabahannocer in October 1776, age 23.  He probably did not marry. 

Aucoin

Martin Aucoin, born in France in c1651, married Marie, daughter of Denis Gaudet and Martine Gauthier, at Port-Royal in c1673 and created a large family in the colony.  Between 1674 and 1707, Marie gave Martin 19 children, 10 sons and nine daughters, including a set of twins.  Five of their daughters married into the Guérin, Gautrot, Thériot, Thibodeau, and Bourg families.  Nine of Martin and Marie's sons married, three of them to sisters, but "only" eight of them created lasting family lines by marrying into the Thériot, Bourg, Breau, Comeau, Trahan, and Dupuis families.  Martin and Marie's descendants settled at Minas Proper, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous on Île St.-Jean by 1752. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to endure a disruption of their lives.  During the spring and summer of 1750, in response to the British building a fort at Beaubassin village, Canadian militia, assisted by Mi'kmaq warriors led by Abbé Le Loutre, burned Acadian homesteads in the British-controlled area east of Rivière Missaguash, forcing the habitants there to move to the French-controlled area west of the river.  Aucoins may have been among the refugees affected by this pétit dérangement.  After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Chignecto-area Acadians, including those in the trois-rivières, were caught in the middle of it.  When British and New-English forces attacked Fort Beauséjour in June 1755, local Acadians were serving in the fort as militia.  They, too, along with the French troupes de la marine, became prisoners of war when the fort surrendered on June 16.  Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost seaboard colonies.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported an Aucoin from Petitcoudiac to South Carolina. 

Most of the Aucoins from the Chignecto area escaped the British and headed up to Canada.  Others sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and, by 1760, some may have moved up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  An Aucoin family from Minas escaped the roundup there and also took refuge in Canada, where one of them died in c1757, victim, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 into the spring of 1758.  His widow remarried to a fellow Acadian at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets on the upper St. Lawrence below Trois-Rivières in November 1759. 

Minas Aucoins who did not escape the British ended up on deportation transports bound for Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.  The Aucoins sent to the Old Dominion endured a fate worse than most of their fellow Acadians deported from Minas.  In mid-November, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's governor, Robert Dinwiddie, protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while Virginia's authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered Acadians from one vessel moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians in hired vessels left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.  Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were held in warehouses and where many died of smallpox.  Aucoins were held at Liverpool, Bristol, and Gloucester.  Seven years later, more than half of the Minas Acadians sent to Virginia had died in England. 

In 1763, after the war with Britain had finally ended, Acadians being held in the British seaboard colonies, theoretically, were free to go, but not until the British discerned their intentions.  Even then, colonial officials discouraged repatriation.  In June 1763 in Pennsylvania, several Aucoin families from Minas were still living in that colony.  Instead of moving to Canada, they moved down to Maryland and joined their fellow Acadians there, including fellow Aucoins.  When over 600 Maryland Acadians emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1760s, only one Aucoin, a young female orphan, may have been among them.  In Maryland, surrounded by fellow exiles and French expatriates, the Aucoins who remained settled at Frenchtown in Baltimore, where their transition from Acadiens to Americains went faster for them than for their cousins who had gone on to Spanish Louisiana.  In a generation or so, the family's name in Baltimore no longer was Aucoin but Wedge. 

In August 1763 in South Carolina Aucoins appeared on a repatriation list of Acadians "who desire to withdraw under the standard of their king his very Christian Majesty."  A trois-rivières-area Aucoin who had been deported to South Carolina in 1755 was no longer in that colony in 1763.  He may have been among the exiles who had taken up the South Carolina governor's offer in the spring of 1756 to return to their homes by boat.  If he and his family were among the lucky refugees who made it all the way back to Rivière St.-Jean, they likely moved up to Canada via the St.-Jean portage and joined their Chignecto kinsmen there.  Though now a conquered British possession, the far-northern province was populated largely by fellow French Catholics, many of them Acadian exiles.  So, in a colony nearly as old as Acadia, descendants of Martin Aucoin began the slow, inexorable process of becoming Canadiennes.  Especially after 1766, members of the family, including the refugee from South Carolina and escapees from Chignecto, could be found on Île d'Orleans and at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny and Rivière-du-Loup on the St. Lawrence below Québec; at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce on Rivière Chaudière south of Québec; at Yamachiche on the north shore of Lac St.-Pierre above Trois-Rivères; and St.-Pierre-les-Becquets on the south shore below Trois-Rivières.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

At war's end, some Aucoins in the seaboard colonies emigrated not to Canada, where the British ruled, but to the French Antilles, where they did not.  While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials encouraged exiles in the British colonies to resettle in St.-Dominique.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking empire.  A new naval base at Môle-St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to their remaining possessions in the Caribbean basin and assist in the "war of revenge" to come.  Exiles lured to St.-Domingue would prove a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the islands's wealthy planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  Aucoins were among the hundreds of exiles who emigrated to the sugar colony from the seaboard colonies in 1763 and 1764.  When the opportunity came in the mid- and late 1760s to join hundreds of their fellow Acadians from Halifax and Maryland on their way to New Orleans via Cap-Français, the Aucoins still in St.-Domingue chose to remain at Môle-St.-Nicolas.  One Aucoin was an exception.  As an infant, he had been taken to one of the British Atlantic colonies in 1755 and then to St.-Domingue probably in the early 1760s.  In 1769, now 14 years old, he took the ship Americain from Cap-Français not to New Orleans but to St.-Malo, France, which he reached the first of October.  He lived with an Aucoin couisin at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer for the next several years, where he took up the woodworking trade as a joiner.  Later in the decade he moved south to the lower Loire port of Nantes in southwest Brittany, where he married a fellow Acadian and took her to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Meanwhile, in 1755, the Aucoins who had moved to Île St.-Jean before the deportations or who had fled there from Chignecto and Cobeguit during the British roundups in Nova Scotia were living in territory controlled by France, so they remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats swooped down on the Maritime islands and rounded up most of the habitants there.  Some escaped from the more remote corners of Île St.-Jean by crossing Mer Roue to the mainland and taking refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or in Canada.  Most of the island Acadians, however, including the Aucoins, were deported to France, with tragic result.  Aucoins crossed on the deportation transport Duke William, which left Chédaboutou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November but sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England on its way to St.-Malo.  Others crossed on Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in the same convoy, escaped the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Even more Aucoins crossed on one or more of the five deporation transports--the so-called Five Ships--that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy, escaped the mid-December storm, and reached St.-Malo together in late January.  Many members of the family did not survive the crossing.  Island Aucoins did their best to create a life for themselves in the suburbs and villages of the St.-Malo area.  They were especially numerous in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer; at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo; at St.-Lunaire on the Breton coast west of St.-Malo; at Ploubalay, Tréméreuc, Langrolay-sur-Mer, and Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo; at St.-Suliac and Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo; and at St.-Coulomb in the countryside northeast of the Breton port.  Island Aucoins also ended up in other French ports, including Cherbourg in Normandy, Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie, Calais in Artois, and on Île d'Aix south of La Rochelle off the coast of Aunis, but few of them remained there. 

In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France aboard the transports Dorothée and Ambition.  Most of the repatriated Aucoins settled in the St.-Malo area, where they added substantially to the number of their kinsmen already there.  An Aucoin repatriated from England ended up at Boulogne-sur-Mer but did not remain.  In May 1766, he took his family aboard the brigantine Hazard to St.-Malo, and they settled near their kinsmen at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Another Aucoin repatriated from England did not remain long in the coastal city to which he had been shipped.  He and his family arrived at Ploujean near Morlaix in northwest Brittany during the spring of 1763.  In November 1765, they followed other Minas Acadians repatriated from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  In the late 1770s, after a decade of effort, they left Belle-Île-en-Mer for the Loire port of Nantes. 

Meanwhile, in the early 1770s, Aucoin families from St.-Malo and Cherbourg participated in an even larger settlement scheme.  French authorities were tired of providing for the exiles still languishing in the port cities.  An influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned in the interior of Poitou near the city of Châtellerault.  The venture largely failed.  In late 1775 and early 1776, after two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians, including the Aucoins, retreated down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes, where they subsisted as best they could on government handouts and what work they could find. 

Two brothers from Minas who had been deported to Virginia and England and settled in the St.-Malo villages also chose to participate in a resettlement scheme, but not in the mother country.  In 1773, while their cousins headed to the fields of Poitou, they, along with other exiles in France, took their families to the Isle of Jersey, one of the British-owned Channel islands off the western coast of Normandy, from whence they returned to greater Acadia to work in British-controlled fisheries.  The Aucoins worked in the fishery at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs before settling in the fishery at Chéticamp on the western shore of Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale.  In the 1790s, members of the family resettled in the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence northwest of Chéticamp. 

Despite their trials and tribulations, the Aucoins who remained in France--the great majority of them--proliferated in their various settlements, but life in the mother country evidently was not a happy one for many members of the family.  In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, at least 93 Aucoins agreed to take it, while only a few chose to remain.  In fact, only two other families, the Héberts and the Trahans, outnumbered the Aucoins in the Seven Ships expeditions of 1785. 

After a period of recuperation in New Orleans, Aucoins from four of the Seven Ships settled at Manchac below Baton Rouge, on upper Bayou Lafourche; below New Orleans at San Bernardo; and on the western prairies at Attakapas and Opelousas.  Most of them, however, crossed on the sixth of the Seven Ships and followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but the settlement did not last.  By the time two hurricanes devastated the area in the early 1790s, most of the Acadians at Bayou des Écores had abandoned the place.  A few Feliciana Aucoins remained on the river in what became Iberville, East Baton Rouge, and West Baton Rouge parishes.  Some went to the Opelousas prairies even before the hurricanes struck.  Most, however, moved down to upper Bayou Lafourche, adding significantly to that center of family settlement.  Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche retained the largest concentration of Aucoins during the antebellum period, though some moved down bayou into Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  After the War of 1861-65, Aucoins from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley moved west to the Morgan City area on the lower Atchafalaya and to New Iberia on lower Bayou Teche.  Meanwhile, Aucoins west of the Atchafalaya Basin, whose ancestors from France had gone there in the late 1780s, settled in St. Landry, St. Mary, Calcasieu, and Evangeline parishes, most of them remaining on the Opelousas prairies.

Evidently non-Acadian members of the family did not settle in South Louisiana during the colonial or antebellum periods.  The great majority, if not all, of the Aucoins of Louisiana, then, are descendants of Martin of Port-Royal and his numerous progency who came to the Spanish colony from France in 1785. 

Judging by the number of slaves they held during the late antebellum period, the Aucoins of South Louisiana participated only peripherally in the South's plantation-based economy.  Few appeared in the federal slave registers of 1850 and 1860, and, among the ones who did, none came close to holding enough slaves to qualify as planters. ...

.Dozens of Aucoins served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Perhaps no Acadian family lost more sons to the Confederate war effort than the Aucoins of Assumption Parish. ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Au Coin, Au Coing, Aucouin, Aukonaut, Auquoin, Ocoin, Ocuyan, Oquin, Oquoin.71 

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The first member of the family to reach the Spanish colony--Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Paul Aucoin and Marie LeBlanc of Minas--first appears in Louisiana records in January 1777, when, at age 19 or 20, she married a Breaux in the Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where exiles from Maryland had gone in 1766.  Marie-Josèphe and her husband settled upriver on the right, or west bank, of the river at San Gabriel, where Maryland Acadians had gone in 1767.  By what route, and when, she came to Louisiana the records do not say. 

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The other Aucoins who came to Louisiana--over 90 of them in at least 17 families--reached New Orleans in 1785 aboard five of the Seven Ships from France.  Some of them followed their fellow passengers to established Acadian communities on the river and the prairies, but most of them went to new Acadian settlements on upper Bayou Lafourche and in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge. 

The first of them--six Aucoins from France, part of a single family--crossed aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge but did not remain.  In the late 1780s, they moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, where most of their fellow exiles from France had gone, and established two robust family lines there: 

Joseph (c1748-?) à Michel à Martin Aucoin

Joseph, only son of Paul Aucoin of Cobeguit and Marie LeBlanc of Minas, born probably at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where they were counted on Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior in August 1752.  Joseph was deported with them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1758, followed them to St.-Malo in May 1766, settled with them at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, and married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of François Henry and Marie Dugas, at nearby St.-Suliac in May 1770.  Élisabeth gave Joseph two daughters at St.-Suliac:  Marie-Josèphe born in March 1771; and Isabelle-Jeanne in July 1773.  Later that year, they followed other exiles in the port cities to the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where, in St.-Similien Parish and at nearby Chantenay, Élisabeth gave Joseph four more children:  Joseph-Jean born in September 1776; François-Toussaint in October 1778; Marie-Modeste at Chantenay in March 1781; and Victoire-Claire in June 1783.  Oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe died at Chantenay in September 1779, age 8 1/2.  Joseph, Élisabeth, and their remaining five children, three daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac below Baton Rouge, where Élisabeth gave Joseph four more children:  Marguerite born in August 1786; twins Paul-Marie and Appoline dite Pauline in March 1788; and Rosalie in September 1789--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1771 and 1789, in France and Louisiana.  The family moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche by 1791.  At age 49, Joseph remarried to Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrilleaux and Véroinque Giroir and widow of François Boudreaux and Charles Broussard, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in October 1797.  Euphrosine, a native of Pigiguit, also had gone to France from Île St.-Jean and had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa with her second husband.  She gave Joseph no more children.  His daughters Isabelle-Jeanne, Marie-Modeste, Victoire-Claire, Rosalie, and Apolline, by his first wife, married into the Richard, Blanchard, Boudreaux, Barbier, and Guillot families.  Daughter Élisabeth-Jeanne, born near St.-Suliac in July 1773, died in Assumption Parish in September 1867, age 94, one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in the Bayou State to join her ancestors.  Joseph's three sons, two of them born in France, married on the bayou. 

Oldest son Joseph-Jean, by first wife Isabelle Henry, followed his family to New Orleans, Manchac, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne-Victoire or Victorine, called Victoire or Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Vincent Landry and Susanne Gaudin, in September 1802.  Victoire was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  Her and Joseph Jean's children, born on the upper bayou, included Basilise Victoire in c1805; Rosalie Anne in October 1806; Apolline Constance dite Pauline in August 1808; Arthémise Marguerite in May 1811; Marie Henriette in January 1813 but died at age 17 in February 1830; Joseph Paul, called Paul, born in September 1815; Eléonore in July 1817; Caliste or Calixte Jean in October 1818; Louis Trasimond, called Trasimond, in August 1820; and Marie in c1823 but died at age 7 in February 1830--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, between 1806 and 1820.  Joseph Jean died in Assumption Parish in February 1832, age 55.  Daughters Basilise Victoire, Pauline, and Eléonore married into the Dupuis and Guillot families, two of them to the same fellow.  Joseph Jean's three sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Oldest son Joseph Paul, called Paul, married cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Thomas Guillot and Pauline Aucoin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1838.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Ursin Jean Baptiste in February 1839; Augustin Joseph in August 1840; Désiré Amédé in August 1842; Clémentine Barbe in December 1844; Charles in September 1846; Paul Israël in July 1849; Octave in January 1852; Marie Apollonie in February 1854; Marie Camilla in April 1856; Arture in April 1858; ...  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 30, 9, and 2--on Paul Aucoin's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; this probably was Joseph Paul.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 40, 20, and 18, living in one house--on Paul Aucoin's farm in the parish's Third Ward; one wonders if these were the same three slaves that Paul owned a decade earlier.  His daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Ursin married Léonelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Émile LeBlanc and Arthémise Gravois, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1861.  Daughter Marie Elmina was born near Paincourtville in June 1862; ...

Joseph Jean's second son Caliste or Calixte Jean, married Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourg and Angélique Dupuis, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January or February 1849.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Angela Antoinette in December 1849; Marie Pomeline or Pamelize, called Pamelize, in February 1851; Marie Palmira Célima in April 1853; and Joseph Elphége in November 1855 but, called Joseph, died at age 2 1/2 in February 1858--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1849 and 1855.  Caliste, called Calixte by the priest at Plattenville, died in Assumption Parish in June 1856, age 37 (the recording priest said 38).  Daughters Pamelize and Angela married into the Dupuis and Guillot families by 1870.  Caliste's only son died young, so his line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him. 

Joseph Jean's third and youngest son Louis Trasimond, called Trasimond, married Azélie Veturi, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Hébert and Marine Landry, probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Arzélie or Alida in September 1850; and Téodule or Théodule Eusilien in September 1851.  Wife Azélie, called Arcellie by the recording priest, died in Assumption Parish in October 1851, age 22, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Trasimond remarried to cousin Edesie, called Daisie, Desie, Desi, Desima, or Desy, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Mazerolle and Élisabeth Gautreaux, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1853; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Narcisse Lacroix in September 1854; Marie Florestine in November 1855; Louis Paul in April 1857; Hélène Élizabeth in September 1858; Marie Lucie in January 1860; Aimée Mathilde near Pierre Part in February 1863 but, called Mathilde, died at age 1 in January 1864; twins Élisabeth Mélanie and Marie Zélamie born in December 1864; ...  Daughter Marie Alida, by his first wife, married into the Melançon family by 1870.  Trasimond's sons did not marry by then. 

Joseph's second son François-Toussaint, by first wife Isabelle Henry, followed his family to New Orleans, Manchac and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Rosalie Brigitte, daughter of fellow Acadians François-Sébastien Landry and Marguerite LeBlanc of Iberville, in November 1799.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Isabelle-Sabine or Sabine-Isabelle, also called Élisabeth-Tabithe, in August 1800; François-Eugène in November 1801 but died the following February; Carmélite-Rosalie or Rosalie-Carmélite in c1802; Marie Françoise in August 1805; and Marguerite Clarisse in March 1807.  François-Toussaint remarried to Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Hébert and Marie Daigle, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1810.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Angèl died a day after his birth in December 1810; Rosaline Lucie born in November 1811 but, called Roseline, died at age 36 (the recording priest said 37 and said nothing about a husband) in April 1848; Mélanie Élise born in April 1813 but died the following February; Élise Claire born in April 1815; Marie Arthémise in December 1816 but died at age 30 in December 1846, evidently still unmarried; Irène born in December 1818 but died at age 6 1/2 in June 1825; Eléonore Clarisse born in February 1821 but died at age 26 in April 1847; Rosalie Julie born in December 1823; Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, in April 1826; Joseph Grégoire in May 1827; Irène Armelise in April 1828 but, called Armelise, died at age 19 in December 1847; Emérande Azélie born in September 1831 but died at age 16 in December 1847; and Eurasie in c1833--18 children, 14 daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1800 and 1833.  Wife Scholastique, who the recording priest at the Plattenville church called an Aucoin, died in Assumption Parish in February 1843, age 53.  François Toussaint died in Assumption Parish in November 1846, age 68.  Daughters Élisabeth Tabithe, Rosalie Carmélite, Marie Françoise, and Eurasie, by both wives, married into the Potier, Aucoin, Friou, Boudreaux, and Crochet families.  François Toussaint's remaining sons also married, to sisters who were also their first cousins. 

Third son Jean Baptiste, called Baptiste, from second wife Scholastique Hébert, married first cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Dupuis and Basilise Aucoin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1849; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They moved on to lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born on both bayous, included Wilfreide Erneste in Assumption Parish in October 1849; Cécilia Zefire or Zephire, called Zephire, in September 1851; Marie Élisabeth in September 1853; Joseph le jeune died in Assumption Parish a week after his birth in April 1855; Marie, perhaps theirs, born in late 1856 but died the following January; Docilice Félix born near Paincourtville or Pierre Part in January 1859; Joseph Sainclair near Pierre Part in November 1864; Rosalie near New Iberia on the lower Teche in January 1868; Étienne Philias in August 1870; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 21--on Jn. Bte. Aucoin's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward; this could have been Jean Baptiste.  Or he may have been the J. B. Aucoin who held only a single slave--a 37-year-old black male--in the same ward.  Daughter Zephire married into the Molbert family on the lower Teche by 1870.  None of Baptiste's sons married by then. 

François Toussaint's fourth and youngest son Joseph Grégoire, by second wife Scholastique Hébert, married first cousin Azélie Apolline dite Pauline, another daughter of Firmin Dupuis and Basilise Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in January 1849; they, too, had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Léo in December 1851 but, called Léon, died at age 9 (the recording priest said 10) in February 1861; Helena Armellina born in December 1853 but, called Hélène, died the following February; Elphége Saint Clair born in December 1854 but, called Elphége St. Clair, died at age 6 in January 1861; Narcisse Ludovic born in April 1857; ...  None of François Toussaint's children by 1870. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Paul Marie, a twin, by first wife Isabelle Henry, followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Dupuis and Marie Osite Dugas, at the Plattenville church in August 1809.  Paul died in Assumption Parish in November 1865, age 77.  One wonders if he and his wife had any children.  If not, his line of the family died with him. 

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Eighteen more Aucoins--four families, two brothers and sister, one of them a bachelor, and several wives--arrived from France aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where several more robust family lines emerged: 

Jean-Baptiste (c1714-1780s) à Martin Aucoin

Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, son of René Aucoin and Madeleine Bourg, born probably at Minas in c1714, married Jeanne-Anne, daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Daigre, in c1746 probably at Minas.  Jeanne-Anne gave Jean two daughters at Minas:  Élisabeth, or Isabelle, born in c1748; and Marie-Anastasie in c1754.  That year they moved on to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area and then to Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in 1755.  Jeanne-Anne gave Jean a son, Charles, born on the island in c1756.  The British deported them to Boulogne-sur-mer, France, in late 1758.  Another daughter, Anne-Félicité, was born to them at Boulogne-sur-Mer in May 1765--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1748 and 1765, in greater Acadia and France.  Daughters Élisabeth and Marie-Anastaise married into the Pitre and Thériot famlies in France.  Jean, Jeanne, and their youngest daughter, along with their married daughters and their families, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Bergère.  Son Charles, who would have been age 29 in 1785, if he was still living, did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughter Marie-Anastasie remarried into the Blanchard family on the Lafourche, and daughter Anne-Félicité married into the Montet family there, so the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Olivier (c1727-1813) à Martin Aucoin

Olivier, oldest son of Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis, born at Minas in c1727, married Marguerite Vincent probably at Minas in c1750.  Marguerite gave Olivier two children--Firmin born in c1751; and Marie in c1753--at Rivière-aux-Canards on the eve of exile.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Marguerite died in England.  After being repatriated to St.-Malo, France. in May 1763, Olivier and his children settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Olivier remarried to Cécile, daughter of Pierre Richard and Cécile Granger, there in November 1765.  Cécile gave Olivier more children at St.-Servan:  Nathalie-Marie born in Sepember 1766; Marguerite-Geneviève in July 1768; Marie-Cécile in September 1770; and Élisabeth-Anne or Anne-Élisabeth in November 1772.  Olivier took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Youngest daughter Élisabeth-Anne died in St.-Léger Parish, Chauvigny, south of Châtellerault, at age 2 in September 1774.  Son Pierre-Charles was born there in December 1774.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Olivier and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Son Olivier-Louis was born at nearby Chantenay in August 1777 but died there at age 2 in October 1779--eight children, three sons and five daughters, by two wives, between 1751 and 1777, in greater Acadia and France.  Oldest daughter Marie, by his first wife, married Acadian shaker and mover Olivier Térriot at Nantes in 1777, and his oldest son, by his first wife, married there in May 1778 but died before 1785.  Evidently Olivier's second son, by his second wife, also died at Nantes before 1785.  Olivier, Cécile, and three unmarried daughters emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  The couple had no more children in Louisiana.  Olivier died in Assumption Parish in August 1813, age 86.  Daughters Nathalie-Marie, Marguerite-Geneviève, and Marie-Cécile, by his second wife, married into the Hébert, Blanchard, and Templet families on the upper Lafourche.  Though Olivier's only married son, by his first wife, died in France, Olivier's grandson emigrated to Louisiana with his widowed mother and created  his own famliy on the upper Lafourche, so the family line endured. 

Oldest son Firmin, by first wife Marguerite Vincent, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France, where he became a sailor.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite-Josèphe Hébert, in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in May 1778.  Their son Firmin-Louis was born in the parish in February 1779.  Firmin died before 1785, and his widow, along with her widowed mother and her only child, a son, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 on the same vessel which took Firmin's father and stepmother to the Spanish colony.  Firmin's son created his own family in Louisiana. 

Only son Firmin Louis followed his widowed mother to New Orleans and upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Arceneaux and Marie Dupuy at St. James on the river in February 1806 but settled at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Adeline in March 1807; Apollinaire Firmin or Firmin Apollinaire in August 1810; Théodule in November 1811; Evariste in January 1813 but died at age 10 in October 1823; Irène born in August 1816; Eulalie in April 1819; Olisiphore or Onésiphore in March 1822; and Nanette Ernestine, called Ernestine, in December 1824--eight children, four daughters and four sons, between 1807 and 1824.  Firmin Louis died in Assumption Parish in January 1825.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Firmin was age 42 when he died and did not mention his wife of 19 years.  Firmin Louis was age 46.  Daughters Ernestine and Adeline married into the Guillot and Bertaud families.  Firmin's three remaining sons also married. 

Oldest son Apollinaire Firmin or Firmin Apollinaire married Marguerite Irma, called Irma, Azéma, and Irène, daughter of fellow Acadians Timothée Hébert and Rosalie Comeaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1836.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Firmin Aristide in October 1836 but, called Firmin Oristil, died at age 1 in July 1837; Hernes or Ernest Firmin born in January 1838; Armistine Marguerite in January 1839 but, called Ernestine, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 11) in July 1849; Evariste Clairville born in February 1840 but, called Evariste Clerville, died the following May; Joseph Octave Numa born in March 1841; Gustave Evariste, called Evariste, in March 1843; Félix in February 1845; Marie Cécilia in January 1848 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1849; Camille born in January 1850; and Marie Elvine or Evilina in June 1851 but died seven hours after her birth--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1836 and 1851.  Apollinaire Firmin, called Firmin, died in Assumption Parish in June 1852, age 41.  Two of his remaining sons married by 1870.

Second son Ernest married cousin Marie Philomène, called Philomène, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Breaux and Hélène Duhon, at the Plattenville church in September 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Firmin Aristide in October 1860; Ernest, fils, perhaps theirs, died at "age a few months" near Plattenville in September 1861[sic]; Hélène Corine born in December 1861[sic]; André Eleste in March 1864; another André died at age 6 months in July 1868; Jeanne Irma born in January 1867; Philippe Elphége in December 1868; ...

Apollinaire Firmin's fifth son Evariste married Estelle, daughter of Jean Baptiste Edwins and his Acadian wife Marcellite Landry and widow of Cléopha Smith, at the Plattenville church in March 1867. 

Firmin Louis's second son Théodule, at age 44, married Maria, daughter of Santiago Truxillo and Rosalie Rodriguez and widow of Francisco Hidalgo, at the Plattenville church in August 1856.  Their son Joseph Irené was born in Assumption Parish in June 1859.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted a single slave--a 38-year-old black male, living in one house--on Théodule Aucoin's farm next to Joseph Truxillo in the parish's Third Ward. 

Firmin Louis's fourth and youngest son Onésiphore married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Guillot and Cléonise Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1845.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marine Léonide, called Léonide, in November 1845; Louise Venada or Veneda, called Veneda, in August 1849; Achille Olésiphore or Onésiphore in January 1852 but, called Achille, died at age 8 in February 1860; Palmira or Palmire Paulina born in July 1853; Marguerite died the day of her birth in January 1855; François Camille born in January 1856; Jacques Guillemore Juste in July 1860; Oléziphore Lazare in September 1862; Eugénie in August 1864; Charles Fernand Alcide in November 1867; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 28, 25, and 15, living in one house--on Oneziphor Aucoin's farm in the parish's Third Ward.  Daughters Veneda, Léonide, and Palmire married into the Landry, Guillot, and Templet families by 1870.  None of Onésiphore's sons married by then. 

Charles, fils (c1747-1805) à Martin Aucoin

Charles, fils, also called Pierre-Charles, third and youngest son of Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis, born probably at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France, where he worked as a sailor.  He was a middle-aged bachelor when he came to Louisiana in 1785 aboard La Bergère with unmarried sister Félicité.  On the eve of the crossing, his fellow passengers chose him as one of the five onboard leaders of their "expedition."  The passenger list also noted that Charles was "well fixed financially," so his work as a mariner must have been lucrative.  At age 39, he married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Noël and Marie-Madeleine Barbe of Minas and England and widow of Frenchman Guillaume-Jean Roquemont, at Lafourche in January 1786 soon after they reached the colony aboard the same ship.  Marguerite was a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France.  Her family also had been repatriated to France from England in 1763, and she also had crossed to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marguerite-Eugénie, called Eugénie, in January 1790; Marcellin-Firmin in May 1791 but died at age 11 in December 1802; Marie-Mélanie, called Mélanie, born in January 1793; Augustin-Babilas in January 1795 but died at age 20 in August 1815; Marguerite-Farelie born in September 1797; Anne-Carmélite, called Carmélite and also Élisabeth, in July 1799; and Evariste-Claude in September 1801 but died at age 15 1/2 in February 1817--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1790 and 1801.  Charles died at Lafourche in January 1805, age 58.  Daughters Eugénie, Mélanie, Carmélite, and Farelie married into the Landry, LeBlanc, Daigle, and Hébert families.  None of Charles's sons married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.

Antoine, fils (c1729-?) à Martin Aucoin

Antoine, fils, third and youngest son of Antoine Aucoin and Anne Breau, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1729, followed his family to the French Maritimes after 1752 and was deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Marguerite Bourg and widow of Élie LeBlanc, at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in January 1760.  Françoise gave Antoine, fils four children there:  Marguerite-Françoise born in July 1761 but died at age 1 1/2 in February 1763; Pierre-Joseph-Antoine in January 1765; François-Charles in November 1767; and Louis-Jean in January 1770--a daughter and three sons, between 1761 and 1770.  Françoise died at St.-Suliac in January 1771.  Antoine did not remarry.  He took his sons to Poitou in 1773.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  In 1785, he and two of his sons emigrated to Louisiana.  Second son François-Charles, who, if he was still living, would have been age 18 that year, did not follow his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Antoine, fils and his sons followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Both of the sons married on the Lafourche, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre-Joseph-Antoine followed his widowed father to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Félicité, 36-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis, in July 1786.  Félicité, a native of Minas, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  She died in Assumption Parish in November 1820.  The Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that she was age 75 when she died.  She was 70.  Pierre did not remarry.  He died in Assumption Parish in August 1829.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre died at age 66.  He was 64.  He and his wife were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  

Antoine, fils's third and youngest son Louis-Jean followed his widowed father to Poitou, Nantes, New Orleans, and Bayou Lafourche.  In 1788, he was working six arpents of frontage on the upper bayou as a 17-year-old bachelor.  He married Victoire-Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arcement and Marie Hébert, at Lafourche in August 1789.  Victoire, two years older than Louis-Jean and also a native of St.-Suliac, had come to Louisiana from France on a later ship.  One wonders if they had known one another since childhood.  They settled at Assumption and may have lived for a time in New Orleans.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Pierre-Louis in November 1790 but died at age 9 in November 1799; Louis-Ambroise, called Ambroise and Louis, fils, born in July 1792; Antoine-Joseph in July 1795; Valentin in September 1797 but died at age 18 in October 1815; Noël born in September 1799 and baptized at New Orleans in January 1800; Eugène born in June 1800; Louise probably in the early 1800s; Basilise in August 1805; Marie in August 1809; and Clarisse in May 1811--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1790 and 1811.  Louis died in Assumption Parish in March 1841, age 71 (the recording priest said 72).  Daughters Louise, Basilise, and Marie married into the Bourg, Almindingue, Doiron, and Lejeune families.  Four of Louis's sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Second son Louis Ambroise, called Ambroise, married Françoise Marie or Marie Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigle and Marie Dugas, at the Plattenville church in September 1811.  They settled on Bayou Boeuf.  Their children, born there, included Azélie in June 1812; Fiacro died at age 6 months in September 1813; Marcel or Marcellin Louis or Louis Marcellin born in October 1814; Valsin Isidore in April 1817; Valentin in December 1818; Alexandre Eusilien or Eusilien Alexandre, also called Azelin, in September 1820; Eugène Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, in April 1823 but died at age 5 in September 1828; Marcellus Félicien, called Félicien, born in February 1827; Roseline in September 1830; and Eugène Arturien in March 1837--10 children, two daughters and eight sons, between 1812 and 1837.  Wife Marie Françoise died by October 1856, when her succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, on the lowe Teche.  At age 61, Ambroise remarried to Joséphine Desbains, daughter of Joseph Chauvin and Marie Webre and widow of Pierre Charpentier, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1857.  She gave him no more children.  Daughter Roseline, by his first wife, married into the Landry family.  At least five of Louis Ambroise's sons also married.  Most of them remained on Bayou Lafourche, but three of them settled on the lower Teche. 

Second son Marcellin Louis or Louis Marcellin, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married cousin Azélie, also called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Doiron and Anne Daigle, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in July 1834, and sanctified the marriage at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1835.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Émilie Alvina in June 1835; Marie Alida in April 1840; Alexandre Armelin in March 1842; Marie Augustine in September 1847; and Aureline Victoire in January 1850--five children, four daughters and a son, between 1835 and 1850.  None of Marcellin's children married by 1870. 

Ambroise's third son Valsin Isidore, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married Euphrosine Adelina, daughter of Pierre Hippolyte Brez and his Acadian wife Marie Lucie Boudreaux and widow of Jean Baptiste Valéry Aucoin, probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1830s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Victorine Augistine in March 1841; Honorine or Honorie probably in the 1840s; Adeline Clarisse Léodi in April 1845; Marie Julie in November 1847; and Valsian Téodule in May 1850.  Valsin may have remarried to Armantine Bourgeois and settled near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, in 1850.  Their children, born near Brashear City, included Marie Olivia in March 1862; Joseph in February 1865; Marie Flavia in December 1867; Marie Nola in August 1870; ...  In December 1850, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted a single slave--a 20-year-old black female--on Valsin Aucoin's farm.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. Mary Parish counted three slaves--all females, all black, ages 30, 10, and 2--on Valsin Aucoin's farm in the parish's western district.  Daughter Honorine/Honorie, by this first wife, married into the Bonaventure/Bonaventi family in St. Mary Parish by 1870. 

Ambroise's fourth son Valentin, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of Augustin Verret and his Acadian wife Marie Rose Bourg, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish on lower Bayou Teche in May 1844, and sanctified the marriage at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1844.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marcelin Augustin in April 1845; Marie Pamele or Pamela in November 1849; Louis Odreus in September 1852; and Victor Lésime in December 1856--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1845 and 1856.  Daughter Marie Pamela married into the Newton family by 1870.  None of Valentin's sons married by then. 

Ambroise's fifth son Alexandre Eusilien or Eusilien Alexandre, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married cousin Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Daigle and Marie Modeste Arceneaux of Assumption Parish, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in December 1845.  They lived in Assumption Parish until the late 1850s or early 1860s and then settled on the lower Atchafalaya near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish.  Their children, born on both bayous, included Calixte Aveline near Plattenville in October 1846; Victor Zéphiran, called Zéphirin, near Paincourtville in April 1849; Armelin Théophile in February 1851; Basile Justilien in June 1853; Rosalie Eugénie in April 1855; Modeste Célina near Brashear City in April 1861; Alexandre Ovide in October 1864; ...  Alexandre Eusilien's daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did, on the lower Teche. 

Oldest son Zéphirin married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Athanase Broussard and his Creole wife Célestine Vaughn of Assumption Parish, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in October 1869.  Their son Louis Gaston was born near New Iberia in September 1870; ...

Ambroise's seventh son Félicien, by first wife Françoise Daigle, married fellow Acadian Telanie or Uranie Doiron perhaps in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s or early 1850s before settling near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish before 1860, near two of his older brothers.  Félicien and Telanie's children, born on the Lafourche and the lower Atchafalaya, included Sévillien in c1849 but, called Silvilia, died near New Iberia, age 19, in October 1867; Félicie born in c1851; Victor Odvery in Assumption Parish in October 1853; Marie Eugénie in c1854 but died near New Iberia, age 13, in October 1867; Azémie born in c1857; Ernestine in c1859; Louis Ernest baptized at Brashear City, age unrecorded, in May 1862; Augustin Numa born in January 1866; ...  None of Félicien's children married by 1870. 

Louis Jean's third son Antoine Joseph married Eléonore dite Léonore, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Marie Boudreaux and Isabelle Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1828.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Louis, also called Louis Ernest and perhaps Lovincy L., in July 1829; Noël Odresse, Andresci, or Andressi, called Andressi and Adrien, in March 1832; Truca, probably Irma, Eufrasine in November 1835; Jean Aurestile Skailer or Schuyler in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1838 but, called Aurestile, died at age 8 in June 1846--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1829 and 1838.  Antoine died in Lafourche Parish in February 1853.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Antoine died "at age 54 yrs."  He was 57.  Daughter Irma married into the Barthet family by 1870.  Antoine's remaining sons also married by then and settled on the Lafourche.

Oldest son Lovincy married cousin Émelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Naquin and Carmelite Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church in November 1851.  They settled on the upper bayou near the boundary between Lafourche and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Edgar in May 1852; Marie Louise in April 1855; Marie Julie in September 1856; Élise Marie in December 1858; Joseph Émile in December 1861; Émelie Joséphine in April 1865; Cécile Eléonore in September 1867; ...  None of Lovincy's children married by 1870. 

Antoine Joseph's third son Andressi married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Charles Blanchard and Rosalie Blanchard, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1854, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in May 1855.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Antoine Aurestile in December 1854; Marie Victoria in April 1857; Auguste Désiré in May 1860; Victor Myrtile in October 1861; Marie Eléonore in April 1864; ...  None of Andressi's children married by 1870. 

Louis Jean's fifth son Noël married Marie Théotiste, called Théotiste, another daughter of Auguste Doiron and Anne Daigle, at the Plattenville church in April 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marcellin Noël in March 1835; Marie Léonide, called Léonide, in February 1836; Zéphirin Armand, called Armand, baptized at Bayou Boeuf, age unrecorded, in May 1837; Louis Victor born in January 1839 but, called Louis Noël, died at age 9 1/2 in November 1848; Hernes or Ernest Lovency born in October 1840 but, called Ernest, died at age 11 1/2 (the recording priest said 12 1/2) in February 1852; Marie Ernestine born in August 1842 but, called Ernestine, died at age 1 in September 1843; Alphonse Léonard born in August 1844; Amédé Emelius in October 1846 but, called Amédé, died at age 2 1/2 in April 1849; Félicia Anastasia born in May 1851; and twins Emma Eugénie and Numa Eugène in November 1854--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, between 1835 and 1854.  Daughter Léonide married into the Legendre family by 1870.  One of Noël's sons also married by then.

Second son Armand married Félicité, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Louis Lamoureaux and his Acadian wife Adélaïde LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church in October 1866; Félicité's mother was her father's second wife and the widow of Joseph Eugène Aucoin.  Armand and Félicité's children, born on the Lafourche, included Henry Adolphe in February 1868; Noël Félix in July 1869; Louise Hortense in November 1870; ...

Louis Jean's sixth and youngest son Eugène married Clémentine or Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Gautreaux and Geneviève Giroir, at the Plattenville church in February 1837.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Louis Ernest in October 1837; Armentine Genevièfe in February 1839; Marie Eugénie in July 1841; Euranie Félicité in January 1845; Eugène Anatole in July 1847; Euphrosine in November 1849; Elmire Émilie, perhaps theirs, in November 1852; and Noémie Félicia in October 1854--eight children, two sons and six daughters, between 1837 and 1854.  Daughters Marie Eugénie and Euranie married into the Martin and Kerne families by 1870.  Neither of Eugène's sons married by then. 

Fabien (c1746-1799) à Alexis dit Lexy à Martin Aucoin

Fabien, second son of Alexis Aucoin, fils and Hélène Blanchard, born at Cobeguit in c1746, escaped to Île St.-Jean with his family in the fall of 1755, followed them to France in 1758, and settled with them in the St.-Malo suburbs.  He worked as a carpenter in France, participated in the Poitou venture of the early 1770s, and, after two years of effort, retreated with hundreds of other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuis and Marie Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, France, in May 1776.  They came to Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Fabien died at Assumption in August 1799, age 53.  He and Marguerite evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.   

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Another Aucoin family--three with the name--arrived from France aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans during the second week of September 1785.  They also followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, but no lasting family line came of it:

Michel (c1755-?) à René à Martin Aucoin

Michel, only son of Pierre Aucoin le jeune and Marguerite Dupuis, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1755, somehow became separated from his family as an infant, perhaps in the care of his older sister Anne, and, with her, was deported to one of the British seaboard colonies.  In the early 1760s, Michel, perhaps with his sister, ventured with other Acadians to French St.-Dominique, where French authorities employed Acadians to work on a new French naval base at Môle-St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the island.  At age 14, Michel, perhaps with his sister, sailed aboard Le Americain from Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, to St.-Malo, France, which he reached in October 1769.  From 1769 to 1772, he lived with the family of his uncle Jean Aucoin in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and became a woodworker there.  One wonders if he went to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes in 1775 or 1776.  He married Marie-Rosalie, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean De La Forestrie and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Bonnière of Île St.-Jean, in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes, in July 1779.  Rosalie gave him three daughters at Nantes and at nearby Chantenay:  Marie-Françoise born in Ste.-Croix Parish in April 1780; Louise-Adélaïde in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in September 1781 but died at Chantenay, age 1, in September 1782; and Rose-Adélaïde, called Rosalie, born at Chantenay in April 1784.  Sister Anne, meanwhile, married a Frenchman, Joseph Cheramie, in St.-Vincent Parish, Nantes, in April 1784, a year before they emigrated to Louisiana.  With their two daughters, Michel and Rosalie followed his sister and brother-in-law to Louisiana and Bayou Lafourche, where they had more children:  Michel, fils baptized at Ascension, no age given, in December 1786; another Rosalie born in September 1791; and Célestin in December 1793--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1780 and 1793, in France and Louisiana.  Michel died in Assumption Parish in June 1833.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents's names or mention a wife, said Michel died at age 76.  He probably was a few years older.  Daughter Marie-Françoise married into the Dumon family in New Orleans.  Neither of Michel's sons seems to have married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.

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More Aucoins--a dozen of them, including three families, one led by a widow--arrived from France aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  Like their cousin Michel of Le St.-Rémi, none of the male newcomers created lasting family lines in the colony: 

Alexandre (1725-1780) à Martin Aucoin

Alexandre, eighth son of Alexis dit Alexy Aucoin and Anne-Marie Bourg, born at Cobeguit in August 1725, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Jeanne Daigre, at Minas in c1750 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Their daughter Marie was born there in c1754.  The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755 and sent them on to England in 1756.  Marie and perhaps their daughter died in England.  Alexandre remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Duon and Madeleine Vincent of Minas, at Liverpool in October 1759.  She gave him a daughter, Anne-Marie, born at Liverpool in July 1761.  After repartratiation to the mother country, the family landed at Pleujean, Morlaix in northwestern Brittany, in the spring 1763.  Their daughter Geneviève was born there in June 1765.  That fall, they joined other exiles from England on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled near Bangor in the southern interior of the island.  Élisabeth gave him more daughters there:  Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in January 1768; Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, in February 1770; Élisabeth-Josèphe in June 1772; and Anne-Augustine, called Augustine, in July 1775.  They remained on the island for a dozen years and then moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes in southeastern Brittany.  Daughter Marie-Renée was born in St.-Similien Parish in November 1778--eight children, all daughters, between 1754 and 1778, in greater Acadia, England, and France.  Alexandre died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in October 1780, age 55.  Widow Élisabeth and her seven Aucoin daughters emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 aboard L'Amitité.  Daughters Madeleine, Félicité, Élisabeth-Josèphe, Augustine, and Marie-Renée married into the Simon, Faulk, Guidry, Benoit, Trahan, Granger, and Sellers families in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin, so the blood of his family endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph, fils (c1725-?) à Martin Aucoin

Joseph, fils, older son of Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan, born probably at Minas in c1725, married Françoise Breau in c1747.  She gave him two daughters probably at Minas:  Marie-Blanche born in c1748; and Marie-Anne in c1751.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Françoise died in England.  Joseph, fils and his daughters were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Joseph, fils remarried to Madeleine, daughter of François Gautrot and Marie Vincent of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and widow of Pierre Boudrot, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance across the river from Plouër in February 1764.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Joseph, fils's older daughter Marie-Blanche died at Pleudihen, age 25, in July 1773; she did not marry.  Younger daughter Marie-Anne, who made it to St.-Malo in 1763, also may have died in one of the Rivière Rance villages.  Joseph, fils may not have taken his family to Poitou in 1773, but he and Madeleine did join hundreds of other exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  A Spanish official counted them there in September 1784, without children.  The following year, they followed most of their fellow exiles in France to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they did not follow their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but may have settled, instead, in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin. 

Joseph (c1752-?) à ? à Martin Aucoin

Joseph Aucoin, born perhaps in British Nova Scotia in c1752, was a 33-year-old sailor living at Nantes when he emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, alone, aboard L'Amitié.  He seems to have followed some of his fellow passengers to the Isleño community of Nueva Gálvez, also called San Bernardo, south of New Orleans.  He evidently did not create a family of his own in the colony. 

Mathurin-Jean (c1755-?) à Alexis dit Lexy à Martin Aucoin

Mathurin-Jean, third and youngest son of Alexis Aucoin, fils and Hélène Blanchard of Cobeguit and brother of Fabien of La Bergère, born at Cobeguit in c1755, followed his family to Île St.-Jean as an infant, was deported with them to France in 1758, and came to Louisiana alone and unmarried in 1785.  In 1788, he was living at Lafourche with older brother Fabien and his wife.  In the 1790s, while in his early 40s, Mathurin-Jean served as an engagé, or hired worker, on the upper Lafourche farm of fellow Acadian Élie Blanchard, probably a kinsman.  Unlike his older brothers Joseph le jeune and Fabien, Mathurin-Jean did not marry.  

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Most of the Aucoins who emigrated from France to Louisiana--53 of them, one of the largest single Acadian family groups to come to the colony--crossed aboard the La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December 1785.  More successful family lines came of it in the three major settlement areas of South Louisiana--the river, the prairies, and Bayou Lafourche.  One of the lines on upper Bayou Lafourche was especially vigorous: 

Jean-Baptiste (c1719-?) à ? à Martin Aucoin

Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, Aucoin, born probably at Minas in c1719, may have been a middle-age bachelor in the fall of 1755, when the British deported him to Virginia.  Virginia officials sent him and other exiles to England the following spring.  At age 38, Jean married fellow Acadian Marguerite Thériot in England in c1757.  She gave him two childrenn there:  Marie born in c1758; and Simon in May 1761.  They were repatriated to France in the spring of 1763 aboard the transport Dorothée and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where Marguerite gave Jean more children:  Jean-Baptiste born in May 1764; Rose-Madeleine in January 1766; Rose-Anastasie in May 1768; Anne-Julienne in April 1771 but died at La Frenelais, age 1, in August 1772; and Pierre-Firmin born in May 1774--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1758 and 1774, in England and France.  They did not go to Poitou in 1773 or follow other exiles to the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, Jean and Marguerite, with two sons and three daughters, emigrated to Louisiana.  Oldest son Simon, who would have been age 24 that year, if he was still living, did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  They had no more children in the colony.  Daughters Marie and Rose-Anastasie married into the Aucoin and Guidry families there.  Both of Jean's younger sons created their own families in Louisiana. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste, fils followed his family to Bayou des Écores, where he married Rose-Madeleine or Madeleine-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin Bourg and Osite Daigle.  Rose-Madeleine, also a native of Plouër-sur-Rance, had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  After the Acadians abandoned Bayou des Écores in the early 1790s, Jean-Baptiste, fils and Rose moved to nearby Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, and then to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Rose-Eléonore at Manchac in February 1795 but, called Rose, died there the following June; Françoise dite Fany- or Fanchi-Rose born probably in the late 1790s; Isabelle in c1799 and baptized at age 2 in November 1801; Jean-Baptiste III born in March 1801; Marie-Rose in the early 1800s; Clarisse-Cléonise at Assumption in March 1803; Marie Augustine, also called Augustine Anne, in December 1804; Mélanie Marie at Ascension in June 1807; and Julie Scholastique at Assumption in December 1811--nine children, eight daughters and a son, between 1795 and 1811.  Jean Baptiste, fils died in Assumption Parish in June 1812, age 48.  Daughters Françoise dite Fany Rose, Marie Rose, Augustine Anne, Clarisse, Mélanie, and Julie married into the Landry, Porche, LeBlanc, Picou, and Bourg families, including two Landry brothers and a third Landry.  Jean Baptiste, fils's only son may have died young but the blood of the family line certainly endured in the Bayou State. 

Jean's third and youngest son Pierre-Firmin followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores.  When the Acadians abandoned the settlement in the early 1790s, Pierre-Firmin's older brother followed most of their cousins to upper Bayou Lafourche, but Pierre-Firmin moved, instead, to nearby Baton Rouge, where he married Doncella-Pélagie, called Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigre and Marie LeBlanc of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in August 1796.  They lived for a time at Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast before returning to the Baton Rouge area.  Their children, born on river, included Florestin or Florentin at Cabahannocer in January 1798; Pélagie-Céleste in c1799 and baptized at Baton Rouge, age 2, in May 1801; Pierre, fils born in June 1802; Marguerite in January 1805; and Scholastique in February 1808--five children, two sons and three daughter, between 1798 and 1808.  Pierre Firmin may have remarried to Marguerite Venoy, widow of A. Vignon of Arkansas, at Baton Rouge in July 1812.  The unnamed child, name and age unrecorded, who died near Baton Rouge in July 1823, may have been theirs.  If so, this would have been Pierre Fimin's sixth child.  Daughters Pélagie, Marguerite, and Scholastique, by his first wife, married Tullier brothers whose mother was a Daigre.  Both of Pierre Firmin's sons created their own families on the river.

Older son Florentin, by first wife Pélagie Daigle, married Élisabeth, daughter of André Verdau, Verdiou, Verdon, or Verdou and Marie Venaille, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1820.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Florentin, fils in December 1821; Pierre Apollinaire, called Apollinaire, in July 1824; Albert Florestin or Florestin Albert in June 1826; Simon Adolphe or Adolphe Simon in October 1828; Éliza Désirée, Désirée, in December 1830; Célestin Jules or Jules Célestin in April 1833; Élisabeth Audile or Odile Élisabeth in June 1835; Marie Eselda or Azilda in August 1838; and Victoria Coralie or Coralie Victoria in July 1842--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1821 and 1842.  Florestin, père died near Baton Rouge in December 1847, age 49.  In November 1850, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted a single slave--a 30-year-old black female--in Elizabeth Aucoin's household in the parish's Tenth Ward; this was Florestin's widow, Élisabeth Verdon.  Daughters Odile Élisabeth, Marie Azilda, Désirée, and Coralie Victoria married into the Picou, Edmonston, Comeaux, and Martinez families by 1870.  Four of Florestin's sons also married by then.  One of them did not survive Confederate service. 

Second son Apollinaire married Melissa Catherine, daughter of Joseph Bouillion and his Acadian wife Marcelline Babin, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1856.  Their children, born on the river, included Cora Élizabeth near Baton Rouge in November 1857; Sarah Beatrix in May 1859; Marie Neddy in January 1861; John W. Octave in September 1862; Albert Florestin near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in July 1864; Joséphine Ada in January 1866; John Gardner in December 1867; James Maples near Baton Rouge in December 1867; ...

Florestin's third son Albert Florestin or Florestin Albert married Julie Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadians Rémi Doiron and Julie Richard, at the Baton Rouge church in March 1851.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Télésphore in December 1851; Abner Sotter in April 1853; Julia Ludevisca in March 1855; Mary Ophelia in April 1857; Alphonse Odey in November 1858; and Élizabeth Lilly in October 1860--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1851 and 1860.  During the War of 1861-65, Florestin Albert, as he was called in Confederate records, served in Company A of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in East Baton Rouge Parish, which fought in Louisiana and Mississippi.  Perhaps because of his age and maturity--he was age 35 at the time of his enlistment--Florestin Albert enlisted as a second corporal in the spring of 1862 and was elected a junior second lieutenant in August.  He was promoted to second lieutenant in September, and this was the rank he held during the siege of Port Hudson in the spring and summer of 1863.  According to his burial record, Florestin Albert was "killed in siege of Port Hudson," but his Confederate service record does not reveal the exact date of his death; he would have been age 37 (the recording priest said 30) at the time.  He probably was buried on the battlefield, and, after the war, his family disinterred his remains and buried them in Highland Cemetery, Baton Rouge, in November 1865.  None of his children married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Florestin's fourth son Simon Adolphe or Adolphe Simon married Mary Margaret, daughter of Michael Adam or Adams and Marguerite Trager, at the Baton Rouge church in June 1853.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Canute Agnès, evidently a daughter, in January 1855; Margaret Élisabeth in October 1856; Marie Lugeria in September 1858; Julius Adolphe in November 1859; Célestine Émilie in December 1860; Geneviève Odilia in August 1862; Mirtile Coralie in July 1863; William Madison in October 1865; Michel Buffington in April 1867; Joseph Lawrence in January 1869; ...  In August 1860, the federal census taker in East Baton Rouge Parish counted a single slave-a 14-year-old black female--in Adolphe Aucoin's household.  During the war, A. S., as Confederate records call him, served in Company A of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry with his brothers Florestin Albert and Jules Célestin.  Like Jules Célestin, he, too, was conscripted into Confederate service, and, like Jules Célestin but unlike brother Florestin Albert, A. S. survived the war and returned to his family.

Florestin's fifth and youngest son Jules Célestin married Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of John Cunningham and Ellen Humphreys, at the Baton Rouge church in April 1858.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Alphonse Godfrey in April 1860; Florence Caroline in January 1859 but not baptized until March 1864; Jules Adolphe born in July 1862; Forest Albert in June 1865; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Jules Célestin served in Company A of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry with his older brothers Florestin Albert and Adolphe Simon.  Like Adolphe Simon, he, too, was conscripted into Confederate service and survived the war, as revealed in the birth date of one of his sons.  

Pierre Firmin's younger son Pierre, fils, by first wife Pélagie Daigle, married Élisabeth, daughter of Michel Gareuil of Marseille and Helena, also called Anne, Lopez, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1825.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included twins Derosin and Derosine in February 1826, but Derosine died in June, and Derosin died at age 2 1/2 in November 1828; Jean Baptiste born in October 1828; and Mathilde in September 1829--four children, two sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, between 1826 and 1829.  Pierre, fils died in Iberville Parish in June 1831, age 29 (the recording priest said 27).  Daughter Mathilde married into the Hébert family.  His remaining son evidently did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph l'aîné (c1721-?) à Martin Aucoin

Joseph, sixth son of Alexis dit Lexy Aucoin and Anne-Marie Bourg and uncle of the seven Aucoin sisters who crossed on L'Amitié, born at Cobeguit in c1721, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Blanchard and Françoise Breau, in c1743 probably at Cobeguit.  Anne gave Joseph two daughters at Cobeguit:  Osite born in c1750; and Radegonde in c1753.  They likely were among the Cobeguit habitants who abandoned the settlement in the late summer of 1755 and escaped to Île St.-Jean.  Anne gave Joseph a son, Joseph, fils, born on the island in c1756.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Anne and all three of the children died at sea.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marie-Claire Dugas and widow of Jean Blanchard, at Ploubalay on the west side of the river southwest of St.-Malo in October 1759.  They settled there and at nearby Tréméreuc, where Anne gave Joseph 11 more children:  Joseph-Yves born at Ploubalay in November 1760 but died at Haute-Marchandais near Tréméreuc, age 23, in July 1783; Pierre-Alexis born at Tréméreuc in May 1762; Anne-Marie at Villou near Tréméreuc in April 1764; Jean-Charles at Tréméreuc in July 1766; Françoise-Marie in June 1768 but died at Tréméreuc the following December; François-Malo born in November 1769; Gabriel-Guillaume in March 1772; Marie-Madeleine at La Marchandais in August 1774; Françoise-Victoire at Tréméreuc in May 1777; Julie-Marie-Françoise at La Haute-Marchandais in February 1780 but died there at age 1 1/2 in September 1781; and Hyacinthe-Laurent born in April 1785--14 children, seven daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1750 and 1785, in greater Acadia and France.  As the birth dates of their children reveal, Joseph did not take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773, nor did they join hundreds of other Acadian exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  Joseph, Anne, and six of their children, three daughters and three sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo in 1785.  One wonders why third and fourth sons Pierre-Alexis and Pierre-Charles, who, if they were still living, would have been ages 23 and 19 in 1785, did not follow their family to France.  From New Orleans, Joseph and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  They had no more children in the colony.  Joseph died by the early 1790s, when widow Anne and her Aucoin children followed other Feliciana Acadians to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughters Anne-Marie, Marie-Madeleine, and Françoise-Victoire, by his second wife, married into the Hébert, Bourg, and Gautreaux families on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche, and all of them settled on the Lafourche.  Anne and Joseph's sons also settled on the Lafourche, but only one of the lines endured. 

Fifth son François-Malo, by second wife Anne Hébert, followed his family to Bayou des Écores and his widowed mother to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie Perrine, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Boudreaux and his second wife Marie-Perrine Nogues, a Frenchwoman, at Assumption in February 1800.  Marie, a native of Plouër-sur-Rance near Tréméreuc, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  She and François-Malo settled at Assumption.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph-François in December 1801 but, called Joseph, died at age 43 in January 1845; Jean Baptiste Valéry born in October 1805; Agathe in November 1806; Pauline Marie in August 1809; Amand Constant in March 1811; and Zénon Nicolas in December 1816--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1801 and 1816.  Daughter Agathe married into the Gautreaux family.  One of François Malo's sons also married, but, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure. 

Second son Jean Baptiste Valéry married Euphrosine Adelina, daughter of Pierre Hippolyte Bree, Bret, or Brez and his Acadian wife Marie Lucie Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1835.  Their daughter Marie Élisabeth was born on the upper bayou, posthumously, exactly a week after her father's death in November 1835.  Jean Baptiste Valéry died in Lafourche Interior Parish that month, age 30.  His line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him.  His widow Euphrosine remarried to another Aucoin.  Her and Jean Baptiste Valéry's daughter did not marry by 1870. 

Joseph l'aîné's sixth son Gabriel-Guillaume, by second wife Anne Hébert, followed his family to Bayou des Écores and his widowed mother to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marguerite-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Boudreaux and Marie-Modeste Trahan, at Assumption in April 1800.  Marguerite-Marie, a native of St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships.  One wonders if Gabriel Guillaume and Marguerite-Marie had any children.  She remarried in May 1810 to an Acadian Dubois, so Gabriel Guillaume was dead by then.  Interestingly, her third husband, whom she married at Thibodaux in February 1848, was her first husband's younger brother Hyacinthe Laurent!  Moreover, she was age 65 at the time of the marriage. 

Joseph l'aîné's seventh and youngest son Hyacinthe Laurent, also called Pierre Hyacinthe, from second wife Anne Hébert, a newborn when his family crossed from France, followed them to Bayou des Écores and his widowed mother to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Delaune and Marie Anne Part, at Assumption in July 1804.  Marie-Céleste, a native of Chantenay near Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  They settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Rosalie Anne in May 1805; Hubert Valéry in August 1806; Adeline in October 1808; Marie Céleste in October 1810; Théotiste in September 1812; Valsin Rosémond in January 1817 but, called Valsein, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in September 1825; Auguste or Augustin Zéphirin born in April 1819; and Euléocade or Léocadie Ursule in March 1821--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1805 and 1821.  At age 62, Hyacinthe remarried to Marguerite Marie, 65-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Boudreaux and Marie Modeste Trahan and widow of Gabriel Guillaume Aucoin, his older brother, and Joseph Marcellin Dubois, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1848.  Needless to say, she gave him no more children.  In June 1860, the federal census takers in Assumption Parish counted two slaves--a 50-year-old black female and an 11-year-old black male--in Hyacinthe Aucoin's household in the Eighth Ward of Napoleonville.  Hyacinthe died probably at Napoleonville in October 1861.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Hyacinthe died at "age 72 years."  He was 75.  A petition for a family meeting was filed in his name--Hyacinth, listing his deceased son Hubert and his wife--at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1862, so Hyacinthe may have owned property in Lafourche Parish as well.  He was one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  Daughters Rosalie Anne, Marie Céleste, and Léocadie, by his first wife, married into the Boudreaux, Richard, Arcement, and Lagrange families.  His remaining sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Hubert Valéry, by first wife Marie-Céleste Delaune, married Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Mire and Henriette Bernard and widow of Joseph Célestin Gautreaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Ofilia or Ophelia, called Ophelia, in January 1836, two years before her parents' marriage; Marie Eveline, called Eveline, in December 1838; Augustin or Auguste Pierre in October 1840; Charles died three weeks after his birth in April 1843; Marie Rose in August 1844; Philomène Dalila in July 1846 but, called Dalida, died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish, age 7 1/2 (the recording priest said 6), in October 1853; and Catherine Huberine born in December 1848--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1836 and 1848.  A petition for tutorship of four of Hubert's older remaining children--Ophelia, Eveline, Auguste, and Marie--was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse in October 1854, so he probably had died by then, perhaps in his late 40s.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 25-year-old black male--in Mrs. H. Aucoin's household in the Seventh Ward of Thibodaux "city"; this may have been Delphine Mire's slave.  Daughters Ophelia, Eveline, and Marie Rose married into the Gautreaux, Lagarde, and Hargis families by 1870.  Hubert's remaining son also married by then and settled on the Lafourche.   

Older son Auguste Pierre married Rebecca, daughter of fellow Acadian Eugène Chiasson and his Creole wife Hortense Lagarde, at the Thibodaux church in January 1866.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Marie Alice in November 1866; Pierre Charles in December 1867; ... 

Hyacinthe's third and youngest son Auguste or Augustin Zéphirin, by first wife Marie-Céleste Delaune, married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Marie Boudreaux and his Creole wife Rosaile Aisene, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1838.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jules Léonie in March 1841; Marie Roséma, called Roséma, in February 1843; Auguste Delphi or Delphi Auguste in January 1845; Adelisa or Adoliska Thérèse in February 1847; Gustave in February 1849; Octave in December 1850; Joseph Matheus in October 1852 but, unnamed, died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic," age 1, in September 1853; Adolphine Zulma born in June 1854; and Julia Rosela in June 1860--nine children, five sons and four daughters, between 1841 and 1860.  In September 1850, federal census takers in Assumption Parish counted four slaves--all male, all black, ages 44 to 22--on Auguste Aucoin's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; this may have been Auguste Zéphirin.  Auguste died near Labadieville in November 1860, age 41 (the recording priest said 42).  Daughters Roséma and Adoliska married into the Richard and Creszioni families by 1870.  One of Auguste's sons also married by then. 

Second son Delphi Auguste married cousin Marie Elfrida, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Boudreaux and Marie Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1863.  Daughter Marie Augustine was born near Labadieville in October 1864; ...

Claude (c1728-1794) à Martin Aucoin

Claude, younger son of Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan and brother of Joseph, fils of L'Amitié, born probably at Minas in c1728, was still a bachelor when he followed his family to Virginia in 1755 and to England in 1756.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Saulnier and Madeleine Comeau of Petitcoudiac, in England in c1757.  Marie-Josèphe gave Claude a son, Jean-Baptiste, born at Bristol in c1758.  They, too, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France in May 1763.  They settled in several communities on the west side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo, where Marie-Josèphe gave Claude many more children:  Perpétué born at La Moysias near Pleurtuit in June 1763 (so Marie-Josèphe had been pregnant on the crossing from England); Charles-Joseph at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance in September 1765; Anne-Anastasie in September 1767; Pierre-Jean in May 1769 but died at La Metrie Pommerais near Plouër, age 4, in October 1773; Mathurin-Casimir born in March 1771; Marie-Gertrude in December 1772; Pierre in c1776; and François-Augustin in October 1779 but died at Sous-Banniene near Plouër six days after his birth--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1758 and 1779, in England and France.  As the birth years of their children reveal, they did not follow their fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in late 1765, or other exiles from the port cities to Poitou in 1773, or join their fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Their oldest son married in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1784.  When the Spanish offered to send the Acadians in France to their Louisiana colony, Claude and his family likely were still living along the Rance.  Claude, Marie-Josèphe, and five of their unmarried children, two sons and three daughters, along with their married son and his wife, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Second son Charles-Joseph, who would have been age 20 that year, if he was still living, did not follow his family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Claude and his family evidently followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, but, like most of their fellow exiles who went there, they did not remain.  They moved on the Opelousas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where, at age 60, Claude remarried to Marie-Geneviève, 64-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Matthew Brasseaux dit La Citardy and Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère and widow of Pierre-Olivier Benoit, in November 1788.  Marie-Geneviève, a native of Grand-Pré, had come to Louisiana from Maryland and Texas with her first husband in 1769.  Needless to say, she gave Claude no more children.  Claude died at Opelousas in August 1794, age 66.  Daughters Perpétué and Anne-Anastaise, by his first wife, married into the Normand and Bertrand dit Beaulieu families at Opelousas.  Three of his sons, also by his first wife, created their own families in France and Louisiana, but not all of the lines endured.  Typical of Acadians who settled on the Opelousas prairies, few of Claude's descendants married fellow Acadians. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Saulnier, followed his family to St.-Malo and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Forest and Marguerite or Marie Comeau, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near the Breton port in April 1784.  Marie gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter, Marie-Jeanne, there, in February 1785.  Later that year, they followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where they had more children:  Marie-Josèphe born in December 1787; Émilie dite Lise in c1790 and baptized at Pointe Coupée, age 2, in February 1792; and Julie-Léonore or -Eléonore baptized, age 5 weeks, in February 1792--four daughters, between 1785 and 1792, in France and Louisiana.  Jean-Baptiste, Marie, and their daughters followed his family to the Opelousas District after the birth of daughter Julie.  Jean-Baptiste died by November 1802, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record at Opelousas.  He would have been in his early 40s that year.  Daughters Marie Jeanne, Émlie dite Lise, and Julie Eléonore married into the Bellard, Fontenot, Desmarais, and Vigé families at Opelousas.  Jean Baptiste and Marie evidently had no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Claude's fourth son Mathurin-Casimir, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Saulnier, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Opelousas, where he married Susanne dite Susette, daughter of Philippe Langlois and his Acadian wife Marie Jeansonne, in October 1796.  Their children, born at Opelousas, included Jean-Baptiste baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1797; Marie-Joséphe baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1798; Mathurin, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in February 1800; Silesie baptized, age 6 weeks, December 1801; and Pierre le jeune born in c1823 but died at age 6 in September 1829--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1797 and 1823.  Daughter Marie Joséphe married into the Trahan and Bergeau families.  Only one of Mathurin Casimir's sons married. 

Oldest son Jean Baptiste married Marguerite Saucier probably in St. Landry Parish in the 1820s.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Jean Baptiste, fils, called Jean, in August 1825; and Florentine in November 1827.  Jean Baptiste, père died in St. Landry Parish in July 1828, age 31.  Daughter Florentine married into the St. Germain family.  Jean Baptiste's son also married.

Only son Jean Baptiste, fils, called Jean, married Susan Smith, widow of ___ Hall, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1853.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Jean Baptiste III was born near Ville Platte, now in Evangeline Parish, in August 1853; Marie Nancy near Opelousas in August 1856; Elvina near Ville Platte in April 1862; ...  None of Jean's children married by 1870. 

Mathurin's second son Mathurin, fils may have died young, unless he was the Treville Aucoin who married Marie Ellender in St. Landry Parish in the early 1820s.  (Area church records consistently call Marie Ellender's husband Treville.)  By the late 1840s, Treville and his family were living on the Calcasieu prairies.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Joseph in March 1823; Michel in c1826 and baptized at Grand Coteau, age 13, in July 1839; Marie Sylvanie born in c1829 and baptized at age 10 in July 1839; Pierre born in c1831 and baptized, age 8, in July 1839; Paul born in c1834 and baptized, age 5, in July 1839; and Martin born in c1836 and baptized, age 3, in July 1839--six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1823 and 1836.  Treville's daughter evidently did not marry, but two of his sons did, to cousins.

Oldest son Joseph may have married cousin Sylvanie Aucoin, date and place unrecorded, and settled in Calcasieu Parish. ...

Treville's third son Pierre may have married cousin Ceranie or Cirene Ellender, place unrecorded, in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the St. Landry prairies, included Levi Georges in January 1853; and Jean Pierre in June 1856.  Neither of Pierre's sons married by 1870. 

Daughter Marie Sylvanie gave birth to son Jean Pierre in St. Landry Parish in February 1857, when she was in her late 20s.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name.  The previous year, Marie Sylvanie had given birth to a daughter whose father's name also was not recorded. 

Claude's fifth son Pierre, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Saulnier, followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and Opelousas, where he married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Silvestre and Catherine Hayes, in January 1800.  Their children, born at Opelousas, included son Jean Pierre, also called Pierre, fils, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1801.  At age 42, Pierre remarried to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Philippe Fontenot and Marie Brignac and widow of Joseph Saucier, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1818.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Lastie or Lasty in May 1819; Onésime in April 1822; and Célestin in November 1825--four children, all sons, by two wives, between 1801 and 1825.  All of Pierre's sons married.  Most of the Aucoins in the western parishes descend from Pierre and his four sons.  Not unusual for Acadians in St. Landry Parish, few of them married fellow Acadians. 

Oldest son Jean Pierre, also called Pierre, fils, from first wife Françoise Silvestre, married, at age 25, Hyacinthe Françoise, 16-year-old daughter of François Fontenot dit Fontaine and Constance Bertrand Beaulieu, at the Opelousas church in January 1826.  Their children, born on the prairies, included Félonise in July 1827; Pierre III in November 1829; Joseph in August 1832; Jacinte or Hyacinthe, a daughter, in October 1834; Jean Pierre in September 1836; Cyprien Pierre in July 1839; Marie Mélite, called Mélite, born in February 1844; Arcadins in September 1846; Clémentine in January 1849; and Marius in April 1852--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1827 and 1852.  Pierre, fils's succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in March 1856.  He would have been in his mid-50s that year.  Daughters Félonice, Hyacinthe, Marie Mélite, and Clémentine married into the Fontenot, Bushnell, Vizina, McCauley, and Brunet families, one of them, Mélite, twice, by 1870.  None of Pierre, fils's sons married by then. 

Pierre's second son Lastie or Lasty, by second wife Marie Jeanne Fontenot, married cousin Céleste or Célestine, 19-year-old daughter of Henry McCauley and Louise Belvue Fontenot, at the Opelousas church in May 1838.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Célestine in April 1839; Adeline in October 1840; Pierre le jeune baptized at Opelousas, age 22 days, in March 1843; Henri in March 1845; Léocadie in February 1848; and Zilien in March 1849--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1839 and 1849.  Daughters Célestine, Adeline, and Léocadie married into the Fontenot and Fuselier families by 1870.  Two of Lastie's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Pierre le jeune married cousin Célestine, daughter of Pierre Jacques Fontenot and Adrienne Fontenot, at the Ville Platte church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in August 1865.  They settled near Eunice.  Their children, born there, included Pierre, fils in March 1867; Arthelus in November 1869; ... 

Lasty's second son Henri likely married Elmire Ardoin in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1868. ...

Pierre's third son Onésime, by second wife Marie Jeanne Fontenot, married Félicité, daughter of Zénon Deshotel and Marie Manuel, at the Opelousas church in February 1842.  Their children, born in St. Landry Parish, included Célina baptized at age 3 months in March 1843; Pauline born in August 1845; Joseph in March 1848; Onézime, fils in May 1851; Dorsin near Ville Platte in March 1855; Zénon in July 1860; Pierre le jeune October 1862; ...  Onésime's daughters did not marry by 1870.  One of his sons did, and another married in the late 1870s.

Oldest son Joseph married Azéline, daughter of Simon Baptiste Manuel and Azélie _____, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1868.  Daughter Lise was born near Ville Platte in December 1870;  ...

Fourth son Zénon married Adeline Bertrand at the Ville Platte Baptist Church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in January 1878. 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Célestin, by second wife Marie Jeanne Fontenot, married Denise Desmaret, widow of Pierre Vizina, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1849.  Their son Denis was born in St. Landry Parish in December 1849.  Did they have anymore children? 

Michel le jeune (c1732-early 1790s) à Michel à Martin Aucoin

Michel le jeune, son of Antoine Aucoin le jeune and Élisabeth Amireau, born probably at Cobeguit in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in the late summer of 1755 or the winter of 1756 and married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Hébert on the island in c1758.  The British deported the newlyweds to St.-Malo, France, later that year.  They settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, where Élisabeth gave Michel a large family:  Joseph-Michel born in May 1760; Jean-Charles at nearby St.-Lunaire in July 1761; Françoise in February 1763 but died the following September; Marie-Josèphe born in March 1764; Anne-Théodose in May 1765; François-David in August 1766 but died at age 2 1/2 in March 1769; Grégoire-Alexis born in October 1767; Michel-Pierre in February 1769; Pierre-Paul in July 1770; Isabelle in July 1772; François-Étienne in December 1773; Jeanne in April 1778 but died at age 9 months in February 1779; Florianne or Florence-Marguerite born in November 1780; and Constant-Jean-Baptiste in October 1782--14 children, eight sons and six daughters, between 1760 and 1782.  As the birth of their children reveal, Michel and Élisabeth did not follow other exiles in the port cities to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.   In 1785, Michel, Élisabeth, and 10 of their children, six sons and four daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo.  Oldest son Joseph-Michel, who would have been age 25 that year, if he was still living, did not accompany his family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Michel and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Michel died there by 1793, when wife Élisabeth was called a widow in the New Feliciana District census.  He would have been in his late 50s or early 60s when he passed.  Soon after his death, his family became part of the Acadian exodus from that settlement to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Older daughters Marie-Josèphe and Anne-Théodose did not marry.  Younger daughters Isabelle and Florianne Marguerite married into the Potier, Pedeau, and Barrilleaux families on the Lafourche.  Five of Michel's sons also married and settled there, creating probably the largest line of Aucoins in the Bayou State. 

Second son Jean-Charles followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he married Hélène, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeaux and Madeleine Henry, in November 1787.  Hélène, a native of St.-Antoine near Pleurtuit south of St.-Énogat, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Before 1793--he and his wife do not appear with his widowed mother and younger siblings in the New Feliciana District census of that year--Jean-Charles and Hélène may have moved first to nearby Baton Rouge before joining his family on Bayou Lafourche by 1795.  Their children, born on the river and the bayou, included Casimir at Bayou des Écores in November 1788; Renée-Isabelle baptized at Pointe Coupée, age unrecorded, in April 1792; Francois-Élie, called Élie, baptized at Baton Rouge, age unrecorded, in April 1794; Emérante-Émilie or Émilie-Emérante born at Assumption in November 1795; Leufroi-Désiré in January 1798; Paul-Eléander or -Léandre, also called Léandre-Paul, in February 1801; Tarzelle-Marie in c1802; and Jean Charles, fils in April 1808--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1788 and 1808.  In October 1810, in Jean Charles, père's succession, the Lafourche Interior Parish court named Jean Baptiste Aucoin curator for daughter Tarsil, then age about 8 (the record says 16), and Guillaume Arcement as curator for Jean Charles's son Léandre Aucoin, then age 9 (the record says 19), so Jean Charles probably had died by then; he would have been age 49 that year.  In October 1813, the same court named Joseph Hébert as tutor for Jean Charles's minor children.  In April 1820, the same court named Baptiste Aucoin as tutor for son Jean Charles, fils, who would have been age 12.  Daughters Émilie Emérante and Tarzelle Marie married into the Lecompte, Boudreaux, and Breaux families.  Three of Jean Charles's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish.  Two of his grandsons moved down into Terrebonne Parish.

Second son Francois Élie, called Élie, married Cécile Marie Marine probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1810s.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste Élie, called Baptiste, in June 1815; Urbin Ursin in May 1818; Evariste Paul in July 1821; Séraphine Abdèle in January 1825; and Adeline Bélise in September 1828--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1815 and 1828.  At age 42, Élie remarried to double cousin Marie Françoise, 42-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Joseph Aucoin and his first wife Françoise Henry and widow of Jean Baptiste Fremin, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1836.  Marie Françoise also was a native of Louisiana whose family had come to Louisiana from France.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Élie died by October 1867, when his wife's burial record called her his widow.  He would have been in his early 70s that year, though he likely died years earlier.  Daughters Séraphine and Adeline, by his first wife, married into the Boudreaux and Adam families.  Élie's three sons also married.

Oldest son Jean Baptiste Élie, by first wife Cécile Marine, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Levron and his Creole wife Marie Adam, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1833.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Jean Baptiste Valsin, called Valsin, in September 1834; Marie Alfonside or Alphonsine Baptilde in January 1836 but, called Alphonsine, died at age 14 1/2 (the recording priest said 16) in October 1850; Marie Ordalie, called Ordalie or Hordalie, born in December 1837; Arvila or Vilia Armelise in October 1839; Elisida or Lesida in August 1841; Marcilia Franklin, called Franklin, in March 1843; and Célestine Julie, called Julie, in October 1845; and Alphonse perhaps posthumously in the late 1840s--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1834 and the late 1840s.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1847, age 31.  A bond for the tutorship of his surviving children, listing his children--Valsin, Alphonse, Ezilda [Lesida], Ordalie, Franklin, Julie, and Arvila--and calling his wife Julie Levrons, was filed in his name at the Thibodaux courthouse in March.  A petition for sale of his effects, calling his wife Julie Levron, was filed there in April.  Daughters Vilia, Lesida, and Ordalie married into the Robichaux, Naquin, and Bourg families by 1870.  Both of Jean Baptiste Élie's remaining sons also married by then, after their war service. 

During the war, second son Franklin served in Company G of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Franklin was living in New Orleans when he enlisted in Company G in early October 1861 at age 18.  According to war records, he had a florid complexion, auburn hair, blue eyes, and stood five feet eleven inches tall.  He was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862 and sent home on a 60-day furlough.  That summer, his company's orderly sergeant reported that he had "heard of him, unwell."  Franklin was still at home recuperating from his wound and perhaps serving with the local Lafourche Parish militia when he fought in the Battle of Labadieville in October.  The Federals captured him in late November, and he was exchanged aboard the steamer Frolic near Baton Rouge in late February 1863.  Franklin returned to the 18th Louisiana later in the year and was reported on the rolls of the Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion in late 1863.  He fell into the hands of the Federals again at Lafourche in September 1864.  He was not exchanged this time.  The Federals sent him to Ship Island, Mississippi, and then to Fort Columbus, New York harbor, from where he was transferred to the prisoner-of-war camp at Elmira, New York, in late November.  Though he was still recuperating from his wound, he survived the terrible winter at Elmira, was paroled there in early February 1865, and sent to James River, Virginia, to be exchanged, but he was not exchanged.  Being "not able to travel," he was returned to Elmira, where he took the oath of allegiance to the United States government in late June 1865.  He returned home and married Léontine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Euphrosine Boudreaux of Lafourche Parish, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1866; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Alice Ulyssia Victoria in December 1866; Jean Baptiste Joseph in October 1868 but died at age 1 in September 1869; Marie Julie born in November 1870; ...  Franklin died in Lafourche Parish in August 1920, age 77, and is buried in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Thibodaux. 

During the war, Jean Baptiste Élie's third and youngest son Alphonse served in Company I of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Like older brother Franklin, he survived his war service and returned to his family.  Alphonse married Élise Charpentier of Terrebonne Parish at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1866.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Joseph Louis in September 1869; Marie Clémence in September 1870; ... 

Élie's second son Urbin, by first wife Cécile Marine, married Céleste Adèle or Adèle Céleste, daughter of Marcellin Adam and his Acadian wife Marcellite Hébert, at the Thibodaux church in December 1843.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Marie Céleste in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1845; Marceline in January 1847; Joseph in March 1849; Laisa or Laiza Philomène in February 1851; Léontine Cléona in December 1852; and Ernest Marcelin in Terrebonne Parish in November 1854--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1845 and 1854.  Daughters Marie and Laiza married into the Bouvier and Chiasson families by 1870.  Neither of Urbin's sons married by then. 

Élie's third and youngest son Evariste, by first wife Cécile Marine, married Marie Émilie, called Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Florentin Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marianne Durocher, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1842, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in August 1845.  Their children, born in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, included Émelia or Amelia in November 1844; and Élisa or Éliza Eve in January 1845.  Evariste died in April 1846, age 24.  A petition for a succession inventory, calling his wife Marianne Émelie Boudreau and listing his children--Eliza and Amelia--was filed at the Houma courthouse in August 1847, so he probably had moved to Terrebonne Parish.  Daughters Éliza and Amelia married into the Chiasson and Landry families by 1870.  Evariste evidently fathered no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Jean Charles's fourth son Paul Léandre or Léandre Paul was age 9 when the Lafourche Interior Parish court named Guillaume Arcement as his curator. Léandre, at age 21, married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Joseph Ozelet and Marie Élisabeth Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1822.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Paul Joseph in August 1823 but died at age 8 months in May 1824; Maximilien Zéphirin, called Similien, born in October 1825; Alexandre Élise or Élie in November 1827; Jean Baptiste Marcellin in November 1829; Marie Aurelie in November 1831; and Firmin probably in the early or mid-1830s.  Paul Léandre remarried to Marine, another daughter of Mathurin Joseph Ozelet and Marie Élisabeth Landry, at the Plattenville church in October 1836.  Their daughter Angèlle was born posthumously in Assumption Parish in November 1837--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1823 and 1837.  Paul Léandre died in Assumption Parish in July 1837, age 36 (the recording priest, who called him Léandre, said 37).  His daughters did not marry by 1870, but his four remaining sons did and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Second son Similien, by first wife Cécile Ozelet, may have married fellow Acadian Aglaé, perhaps also called Adélaïde, Landry in Assumption Parish in the early 1850s.  Their son Evelien Oscar was born in Assumption Parish in November 1854 but, called Oscar, died at age 9 months the following August.  An Adélaïde Landry, wife of Similien Aucoin, died in Assumption Parish in June 1855, age "18 years, 9 months"; the Plattenville priest who recorded the burial did not give the young wife's parents' names; this may have been Aglaé.  Similien remarried to cousin Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Dupuis and Apolline Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in April 1857; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Plattenville, included Hélène Justine in September 1864; Marie Gracieuse in January 1867; Edgar Firmin in October 1870; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted four slaves--two males and two females, all black, ages 30 to 1--on Maximilien Aucoin's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward. 

Léandre's third son Alexandre Élie, by first wife Cécile Ozelet, may have married fellow Acadian Joséphine Aureline Dantin, place and date unrecorded.  They evidently settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Aurelien in March 1852; Victoria Georgina in July 1854; Marie Odelia Ofelia in July 1857; Ofilia Ovelia in July 1858; Nilson Séverin in January 1860; Cécilia Malvina in April 1863; Léo Émile in February 1866; ...  None of Alexandre's children married by 1870. 

Léandre's fourth son Jean Baptiste Marcellin, by first wife Cécile Ozelet, married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Léandre Boudreaux and his Creole wife Baselisse Rousseau, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1857.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie, perhaps theirs, in late 1856 but died at age 3 months in January 1857; Amadéo Elphége born in June 1861; Eugénie Alice in August 1864; Eulalie Élodie in December 1866; Albert Léo Jean in April 1869; ...  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted five slaves--three males and two females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 21--on Jn. Bte. Aucoin's farm in the parish's Fourth Ward; this could have been Jean Baptiste.  Or he may have been the J. B. Aucoin who held only a single slave--a 37-year-old black male--in the same ward. 

Léandre's fifth and youngest son Firmin, by first wife Cécile Ozelet, married cousin Roséma, daughter of fellow Acadians Rosémond Aucoin and Clarisse Gautreaux, at the Labadieville church in April 1861. ...

Jean Charles's fifth and youngest son Jean Charles, fils was age 12 in April 1820 when the Lafourche Interior Parish court named Baptiste Aucoin as his tutor.  Jean Charles, fils, at age 22, married Marie Hélène, daughter of François Le Lorre or Leloret and his Acadian wife Marie Augustine Richard, at the Thibodauxville church in October 1830.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Marie Séraphine in May 1832; Ulisse or Ulysse Drosin in November 1834; Joseph Arlésime or Onésime, called Onésime, in June 1837; Rosalie Emelina in November 1839; Felonise in December 1841; Marie Melina probably in the early 1840s; and Joseph Franklin in November 1844--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1832 and 1844.  Jean Charles, fils died in Lafourche Parish in November 1855, age 47 (the recording priest said 48).  Daughters Marie Séraphine and Marie Melina married into the Guillot and Mire families by 1870.  Two of Jean Charles, fils's sons also married by then, one before and the other after his war service. 

Oldest son Ulysse married Marie Odilia, called Odilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Evariste Mire and his Creole wife Azeline Morvant, at the Thibodaux church in May 1861.  Their children, born on the middle Lafourche, included Marie Mertilia in March 1862; and Dauphine in March 1864.  During the war, Ulysse served with younger brother Onésime in Company F of the Lafourche Regiment Militia.  Ulysse was captured at the Battle of Labadieville in October 1862, paroled by the Federals, and sent home.  His Confederate service record says nothing of his taking the oath of allegiance to the United States government either during or at the end of the war.  Ulysse, called Euliste by the recording parish clerk, remarried to Estelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Hortère Guillot and Euphrosine Guillot and widow, perhaps, of Edward Jenkins, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1870; the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish.  ...

During the war, Jean Charles, fils's second son Onésime served with older brother Ulysse in Company F of the Lafourche Regiment Militia.  He was captured in Lafourche Parish in November1862, took the oath of allegiance to the United States government, and went home.  Onésime married Adèle, another daughter of Isidore Hortere Guillot and Euphrosine Guillot, at the Thibodaux church in February 1864. ...

Michel le jeune's fourth son Grégoire-Alexis followed his family to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he married cousin Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Aucoin and Geneviève Thériot, in February 1789.  Marguerite-Geneviève, a native of Plouër-sur-Rance south of St.-Énogat, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  After the New Feliciana District census of 1793, in which he, his wife, and "five young male children" were counted, Grégoire and Marguerite followed his widowed mother and other Acadians to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Augustin at Bayou des Écores in December 1789; Simon-Michel baptized at Pointe Coupée, age unrecorded, in May 1792; Louis-Grégoire born in January 1793 but died at Assumption, age 7 years and 9 months, in November 1800; Isidore-Joseph, called Joseph, born at Assumption in August 1795; Leufroi in March 1798; Florence in December 1799; Grégoire, fils dit Grig in February 1802; Rosémond in December 1803; Léonore Phiosine, also called Euphrosine, in March 1806; Félonise, also called Félonise Henrietta, in May 1808; and Marie in c1815--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1789 and 1815.  Grégoire died in Assumption Parish in April 1844, age 76 (the recording priest said 77).  His widow Marguerite died there in October 1846, age 78.  Daughters Florence, Euphrosine, Félonise Henrietta, and Marie married into the Blanchard, Landry, Gautreaux, and Arceneaux families.  Grégoire's six remaining sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Augustin followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He returned to the area of his birth when he came of age and lived along Bayou Sarah, near St. Francisville, in the Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but he did not remain.  He married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in March 1810; the priest who recorded the marriage called him "Augustin of the Felicianas."  Henriette was the sister of two of Augustin's younger brothers' wives.  Her and Augustin's chilidren, born on the upper Lafourche, included Angèl died a day after his birth in April 1814; Augustin, fils born in April 1815; Marcellin Jean Pierre in May 1817 but died at 11 months in May 1818; Batilde Henriette born in May 1819; Marie Félicissime in August 1821; Marie Rose in February 1824; Eusilien François in July 1826; and Joseph François, also called Joseph A., in January 1829--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1814 and 1829.  Augustin, père died in Assumption Parish in June 1829, age 39.  None of his daughters married by 1870, if they married at all.  His three remaining sons did marry by then.  Two of his grandsons from his youngest son Joseph A., brothers Adolph and Kleber, became prominent citizens of Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, in the early twentieth century. 

Second son Augustin, fils married Estelle Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Landry and Rosalie Landry, at the Plattenville church in January 1838.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Honosiphore or Onésiphore Auguste in April 1839; a son, name unrecorded, died at age 8 months (the recording priest said 8 years) in July 1841; Étienne Augustin born in February 1844; Alexis Siméon Félix in February 1846; Adolphine Odilia in May 1848; Marie Avelina in January 1851; Henrietta in July 1853; Clete Hubert Maximin in December 1855; Aimée Philomène in September 1860; and Estelle Félicité Alice in February 1861--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1839 and 1861.  In September 1850, federal census takers in Assumption Parish counted four slaves--all male, all black, ages 44 to 22--on Auguste Aucoin's farm in the parish's Second Congressional District; this probably was Augustin, fils.  None of Augustin, fils's daughters married by 1870, but two of his sons did. 

Oldest son Onésiphore Auguste married Célima, daughter of fellow Acadian Hubert Arceneaux and his Creole wife Irma Rodrique, at the Labadieville church in February 1859.  Their son Arma Demofort was born near Labadieville in January 1861.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Assumption Parish counted three slaves--a male and two females, all black, ages 28, 25, and 15, living in one house--on Oneziphor Aucoin's farm in the parish's Third Ward; this could have been Onésiphore Auguste. 

Augustin, fils's third son Étienne Augustin married cousin Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodule Arceneaux and Azélie Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in September 1865; they had to secure a dispensation for consanguinity in order to marry, but the marriage record does not reveal the degree of consanguinity between them.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Jean Albert in December 1867; twins Aurelia Alicida and Aurelie Alcidie, evidently two daughters, in December 1869; ...  Étienne died near Labadieville in September 1870, age 26. 

Augustin, père's fourth son Eusilien François married Louisa, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Guillot and Cléonise Hébert, at the Plattenville church in January 1852.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Coralie Amanda in December 1852; Augustin Euzilien in February 1854; Evariste Vincent Arthur in July 1855; Melchiora Odalie Félisme in December 1856; Saturnin Guilmore Colon in November 1859; Antoinette Louisa Amélia in January 1862; Marie Velia Joséphine in November 1864; Clet Ulger Sabba in December 1866 but died the following March; Arthur Aubin Evariste born in March 1868; ...  None of Eusilien's children married by 1870. 

Augustin, père's fifth and youngest son Joseph A. married Pamela, daughter of fellow Acadians Laurent Giroir and Anne Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1849.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Aurelia Tholemie in December 1849; Marie Julie in December 1850 but, called Judith, died at age 10 months in September 1851; Numa born in April 1852; Pierre Willibrodus Auzémé in June 1855; Clebert or Kleber Joseph in November 1857; Auzelien Albert in February 1860, Adolphe Laurent Arthur in September 1862; Ema Lea Marguerite in July 1865 but, called Ema, died the following October; Pierre Anatole born in January 1867; ...  In August 1860, the census taker in Assumption Parish counted six slaves--two males and four females, all black, ranging in age from 38 to 1--on Jos. A. Aucoin's farm in the parish's Ninth Ward along Bayou Lafourche.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Grégoire Alexis's second son Simon Michel followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Trahan and Marie Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in May 1812.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Simon, fils in c1813 but died at age 4 in February 1817; Joseph Dominique born in August 1814 but, called Joseph, died near Paincourtville, age 44 (the recording priest said 43), in September 1858; Augustin Gédéon born in April 1816 but died at age 19 months in December 1817; Marie Émeline born in July 1818 but died at age 3 in June 1821; Jean Baptiste Adrien, called Adrien, born in July 1820; Célestine Victorine or Victorine Célestine in July 1822; Marcel Grégoire in November 1822[sic]; Eulalie Melissaire Eurasie in April 1827 but, called Eurasie, may have died near Paincourtville, age 37, in May 1864; Gédéon Germain born in July 1829; and Marie Aurelie Donatille, called Aurelie, in October 1831--10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1813 and 1831.  Simon, père died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in August 1847, age 56.  Daughters Victorine Célestine and Aurelie married into the Savoie and Crochet families.  Three of his sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Fourth son Adrien married cousin Rosalie or Rosaline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Aucoin and Rosalie Thériot, at the Plattenville church in January 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and near Pierre Part, on the shore of Lake Verret, included Octave Joseph in December 1842; Alexis Maximin, called Maximin, in May 1846; Eléonore Élisse, called Élisse, near Paincourtville in December 1848; Marie Lodie or Élodie, called Élodie, in December 1850; and Rosalie Octavie, called Octavie, in January 1853--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1842 and 1853.  Evidently none of Adrien's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Second son Maximin married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvanie Templet and Melisa Thériot, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in August 1869.  Daughter Cordilia Amanda was born near Pierre Part in June 1870; ...

Simon Michel's fifth son Marcel Grégoire, in his early 20s, married Mathilde Emérante, teenage daughter of fellow Acadians François Marie Crochet and Eulalie Landry, probably in Assumption Parish in the early 1840s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Sylvestre Marcellin near Paincourtville in December 1844; Aurelia Marcelline in November 1846; and Claiborne Désiré in January 1849 but, called Joseph Clairbonn, died the following September.  Wife Mathilde died near Paincourtville, age 23, in September 1849.  Marcel, in his early 30s, remarried to fellow Acadian Aurelie or Aureline Templet in Assumption Parish in the early 1850s.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Eugénie in August 1853; Joseph in January 1855; Douradon Clément in September 1857; Maximin Xavier near Pierre Part in July 1859; Joseph Victorin Florilien in March 1861; and Pierre Amadéo in September 1862 but, called Pierre, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in June 1867.  At age 41, Marcel remarried again--his third marriage--to Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Daigle and Élise Hébert, at the Plattenville church in September 1864.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Camille Lusignan in July 1865; Joseph Émile, perhaps called Émile, in January 1867 but may have died at age 1 1/2 in September 1868; Jean Baptiste Dorilien born in January 1869; ...  Marcel's daughters did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Sylvestre Marcellin, by first wife Mathilde Crochet, married Camille or Camilla, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Guillot and Joséphine Daigle, at the Paincourtville church in February 1869.  Daughter Cécilia Scholastique was born in Assumption Parish in February 1870; ...

During the war, Simon Michel's sixth and youngest son Gédéon Germain served as a corporal in Company B of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  In his late 30s, Gédéon, called "Gédéon G. of St. Mary Parish" by the recording parish clerk and Lédéon by the recording priest, married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Basile Naquin and his Creole wife Adelle Ayo, at the Chacahoula church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1868.  Their children, born near Chacahoula, included Simon Folcar in March 1869; Adrien Henri in July 1870; ...

Grégoire Alexis's fourth son Isidore Joseph, called Joseph, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigle and Marie Dupuy, at the Plattenville church in June 1817.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Jean Baptiste in November 1818; Marguerite Azélie, called Azélie, in November 1820; Marie Florence in November 1822; Euphrosine in June 1825 but died at age 1 in May 1826; Honoré Eusilien, called Eusilien, born in February 1827; Félicien Théodule, called Théodule, in December 1829; François in February 1832 but died a month later; François Arcème or Arsène born in March 1833; Augustin Menery in November 1835; Roseline Victorine in February 1838; Grégoire Théodule Ysidore or Isidore in April 1840; Adrien in June 1842; Azéma Philomena in January 1846; and Marcelite in January 1848--14 children, eight sons and six daughters, between 1818 and 1848.  Daughters Azélie and Marie Florence married into the Arceneaux and Blanchard families by 1870.  Four of Isidore's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Jean Baptiste married Eléonore dite Léonore, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrilleaux and Marcellite Foret, at the Plattenville church in April 1844.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Azéma Donatilde in March 1845; Silvani or Sylvanie Numa in April 1846; Lirode Désiré in December 1851 but, called Désiré, died at age 2 1/2 in May 1854; Victorine Faustine born in September 1853; Onil Pierre Gedot in January 1856; Mathilde Palmire in August 1860; Adrien Philippe in July 1865; ...  Daughter Azéma married into the Landry family by 1870.  None of Joseph Jean Baptiste's sons married by then. 

Isidore Joseph's second son Eusilien married cousin Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Auguste Blanchard and Marguerite Aucoin, at the Labadieville church in January 1860.  Their children, born near Labadieville, included Joseph Damien in May 1861; François Justilien Louis Amédée in March 1863; ... 

Isidore Joseph's third son Théodule married cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Aucoin and Baselisse Arceneaux, at the Labadieville church in February 1858.  Their son Alcide Lucas was born near Labadieville in April 1862; ... 

Isidore Joseph's fifth son François Arsène married Uranie, daughter of Valière Barras and Adèle Rousseau, at the Labadieville church in July 1865.  Their son Alexandre Justilien was born near Labadieville in October 1866; ... 

Grégoire Alexis's fifth son Leufroi married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Blanchard and Jeanne Giroir, at the Plattenville church in April 1819.  Their children, born on the upper bayou, included Marie Élise in January 1820; and Leufroi Heli in November 1821.  Leufroi remarried to Phelonise, another daughter of François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in July 1823; Phelonise was a sister of two of Leufroi's brothers' wives.  Her and Leufroi's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Simon Jérôme, also called Firmin, in September 1824 but died at age 2 months the following December; François Rosémond died at age 7 weeks in April 1826; Édouard Pierre born in December 1827; Adolphe in August 1829; Felonise Marie in July 1832; Adrien Augustin in March 1834; Honoré Luselien or Eusilien le jeune in March 1836; Célestine Marie in December 1840; Octave François in August 1843; and Mérante Carmélite in March 1845--a dozen children, four daughters and eight sons, by two wives, between 1820 and 1845.  Leufroi's succession was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in June 1848, so he may have owned property there; he would have been age 50 at the time; one wonders if the succession was post-mortem.  None of his daughters seems to have married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Sixth son Adrien Augustin, by second wife Phelonise Gautreaux, married Marie Domitille, daughter of Jean Romain and Marie LeBoeuf, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1859.  They settled near Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish on the lower Atchafalaya.  During the war, Adrien served in Company F of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Mary Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war and returned to his family.  His and Marie Domitille's children, born on the lower Atchafalaya, included Adam Onésiphore near Brashear City in April 1863 while his father was serving in the trenches at Vicksburg; Joseph Sylvanie in November 1865 after his father returned from the war; ... 

Grégoire Alexis's sixth son Grégoire, fils dit Grig married cousin Henriette Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Anatalie Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in June 1823.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Clarisse Marcellite, called Marcellite, in June 1824; Henriette or Henrietta Florence in September 1826; Pierre Grégoire, called Grégoire III, in December 1829; Marie Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in December 1830; Marguerite Mélanie in April 1833; Joseph Vileor, called Vileor or Vilcord, in February 1836; Marie Aséma in February 1838; Anathalie or Nathalie Cereline in April 1840; Uranie in c1842 but died at age 5 in December 1847; Orelia born in May 1843; and Aurilien or Aurelien Ursin in June 1846--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, between 1824 and 1846.  Grégoire, fils died in Assumption Parish in May 1849.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Grégoire died at "age 44 years."  He was 47.  Daughters Marcellite, Henrietta, Élisabeth, and Nathalie married into the Cancienne, Baudoin,  Barras, Hébert, and Landry families, one of them, Marcellite, twice, by 1870.  Grigs's two older sons also married by then.  One of them moved to the southwestern prairies after the war, and the other died in Confederate service. 

Oldest son Grégoire III married Delphine, daughter of Auguste Cancienne and his Acadian wife Élise Rosalie Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in September 1851.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche and the western prairies, included Léon Numa in November 1852; Aimée Zulma Aurelia in September 1855; Grégoire Clebert in October 1856; Hélène Zulmée in August 1860; Marie Adolphine in September 1865; Joseph Demas near Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, in November 1870; ...  None of Grégoire III's children married by 1870. 

Grig's second son Vileor married Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbain Daigle and Doralise Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church in May 1859.  Their son Joseph Villier was born near Labadieville in October 1860.  During the war, Vileor, called Vilcord in Confederate records, was one of the dozens of Assumption Parish men conscripted into the 1st Regiment Louisiana Heavy Artillery and sent to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in October 1862.  He served in Company B and died probably of disease in the city hospital at Vicksburg the following January or February, age 27. 

Grégoire Alexis's seventh and youngest son Rosémond married Clara or Clarisse, yet another daughter of François Marie Gautreaux and Félicité Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1827; Clarisse was a sister of two of Rosémond's older brothers' wives.  Her and Rosémond's children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jules Adélaine in December 1828; Domitille in March 1831 but died at age 12 1/2 in November 1843; Marie Clarisse born in July 1833; Therence or Terence Zephyr or Zéphire, called Zéphire, a daughter, in February 1836; Célestine Victorine Amelie Philomène in July 1838 but, called Émelie, died at age 5 1/2 (the recording priest said 4) in November 1843; and Rose Aima or Roséma born in October 1841--six children, a son and five daughters, between 1828 and 1841.  Rosémond died in Assumption Parish in March 1844, age 40.  Widow Clarisse remarried to a Delaune.  Daughters Marie Clarisse, Zéphire, and Roséma married into the Blanchard and Aucoin families, two of them, Marie and Zéphire, to Blanchard brothers who, like sister Roséma's husband, also were their cousins, by 1870.  Rosémond's son also married by then. 

Only son Jules, who, according to the 1850 federal census, became a cooper, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simonet Comeaux and Eulalie Gaudet, at the Plattenville church in March 1853.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Jules Arthur in January 1854 but, called Arthur, died at age 6 1/2 in November 1860; and Alcée Arthur Thibaut born in July 1855.  Jules, père died in Assumption Parish in November 1855, age 26 (the recording priest said 27).  His remaining son did not marry by 1870. 

Michel le jeune's fifth son Michel-Pierre followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marguerite-Perrine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Anne Daigle, in May 1800.  Marguerite-Perrine, a native of La Gravelle near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, south of St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Hubert-Onésime in August 1801; Marie in the early 1800s; Marguerite in September 1804; Basilise in January 1806; Eugénie Carmélite in November 1807; Michel Suliac in September 1809; and Hortense Cléonise in July 1811 but died at age 1 in September 1812--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1801 and 1811.  Daughters Marie, Basilise, and Marguerite married into Dubois, Arceneaux, and Delaune families.  Michel Pierre's two sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche. 

Older son Hubert Onésime married cousin Élisabeth or Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Daigle and Rosalie Blanchard, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1831.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Guillaume Olysime or Onésime, called Onésime, in Assumption Parish in January 1832 but died at age 13 months in May 1833; Eugénie Adeline born in September 1833; Élisabeth dite Élise in May 1836; Marie Urenie or Uranie, called Euranie, in January 1838; Marie Rosalie in May 1840; Aimée Octavie, called Octavie, in December 1842; Henriette Julie in January 1845; and Élodie Rosalie in September 1847--eight children, a son and seven daughters, between 1832 and 1847.  Hubert, called Ouvert, died in Assumption Parish in January 1850, age 48.  Daughters Élise, Euranie, and Octavie married into the Bourg and LeBlanc families, including two Bourg brothers, by 1870.  Hubert's only son did not survive childhoold, so his line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, likely died with him. 

Michel Pierre's younger son Michel Suliac married Basilisse, Rosalie, or Arselie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Arceneaux and Marie Aimée Blanchard, at the Plattenville church in February 1835.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Michel Honoré Théodule in February 1836 but, called Honoré, died at age 12 in October 1848; Joseph born in December 1837; Yrène or Irène Aimée, called Aimée, in September 1839; Marie Félicia in November 1841; Arcène or Arsène Vincent in April 1843; Louis Éloi, called Éloi, in March 1845; Alise Désirée October 1849; André Ulysse in June 1852; and Émile Augustin in July 1854--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1836 and 1854.  Michel died in Assumption Parish in May 1855, age 45.  Daughter Aimée married an Aucoin cousin by 1870.  One of Michel's sons also married by then. 

 Fourth son Éloi married first cousin Azéma, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Alexandrine Arceneaux, at the Plattenville church in August 1869; Azéma's mother was Éloi's maternal aunt, so they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. ...

Michel le jeune's sixth son Pierre-Paul followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Rosalie-Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Gautreaux and Madeleine Melançon, in October 1799.  Rosalie, a native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, had come to Louisiana aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  They settled at Assumption.  Their children, born there, included Joseph-Marie in September 1800; Eugène in January 1802 but died at age 31 (the recording priest said 32) in June 1833; Léocadie Marguerite born in May 1804; Rosalie or Rose Euphrosine in August 1806; Pierre Michel in July 1808 but died at age 4 in October 1812; François born in November 1810; Lubin Jean Pierre in September 1813; and Isidore Théodule or Théodule Isidore, in January 1817--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1800 and 1817.  Pierre Paul died in Assumption Parish in April 1818, age 47.  Daughters Léocadie Marguerite and Rosalie married into the Blanchard, Delaune, and Bourg families.  Four of Pierre Paul's remaining sons also married and settled on the upper Lafourche, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Oldest son Joseph Marie married cousin Rosalie Carmélite or Carmélite Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Aucoin and Rosalie Landry, at the Plattenville church in August 1822.  Their son Julien Joseph was born in Assumption Parish in January 1824.  Joseph Marie died in Assumption Parish in March 1825, age 25.  His son did not marry by 1870, if he married at all. 

Pierre Paul's fourth son François married Marie Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreaux and Marie Mélanie Gautreaux, at the Plattenville church in October 1838.  They settled at Bayou L'ours.  Their children, born there, included Marie Françoise in October 1839; Célestine Marceline in March 1842 but, called Célestine, died at age 9 1/2 (the recording priest said 10) in September 1851; Eugène Désiré Théodule in February 1845; and Julie Aurela born in April 1848--four children, three daughters and a son, between 1839 and 1848.  None of François's children married by 1870.

Pierre Paul's fifth son Lubin Jean Pierre married Anne Marie, called Marie and Annette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Doiron and Marguerite Dugas, at the Plattenville church in July 1833.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Arsène Pierre in June 1834; Rose Aimée Marie in November 1836; Evellina Amellina dite Melina in April 1838[sic]; Françoise in October 1838 [sic, probably 1839] but died at age 8 in November 1847; Eulalie born in September 1842; Mathilde Zulmira in April 1844; and Victorine Odilia in February 1847--seven children, a son and six daughters, between 1834 and 1847.  Lubin died in Assumption Parish in August 1860.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Lubin died at "age 48 years."  He was 46.  Daughters Melina, Victorine, Mathilde, and Eulalie married into the Barras, Bergeron, Hébert, and Bolot families by 1870.  Lubin's son did not marry by then. 

Pierre Paul's sixth and youngest son Isidore Théodule or Théodore Isidore married Madeleine Louise Mélanie or Mélanie Louise, daughter of Élie Friou and his Acadian wife Marguerite Bourg, at the Plattenville church in April 1841.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Carmélite Angelina in August 1842; Jean Théodore in February 1844; Joseph Silvanie or Sylvanie in August 1845; Marie Lucie in June 1848; and Zoé Élodie in August 1850--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1842 and 1850.  None of Isidore Théodule's children married by 1870. 

Michel le jeune's seventh son François-Étienne followed his family to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Comeaux and Marguerite Aucoin and widow of François Bourg, in June 1800.  Madeleine, a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, also had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Euchariste- or Cariste-Antoine, also called Calixte, in December 1800; and Hélène in July 1802.  Francois Étienne, called Étienne Francois by the priest who recorded his burial, died in Assumption Parish in October 1837, age 64.  His daughter did not marry, but his son did and settled on the upper Lafourche.

Only son Euchariste, Calice, Calixe, or Cariste Antoine married Louise Ludivine, also called Éloise or Louise Divine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Thomas Hébert and Marie Pélagie Thibodeaux, at the Plattenville church in February 1825.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Euchariste in September 1828; Marie Élise, called Élise or Éliza, in July 1830; Léandre Alexis in September 1831; Pierre Vileor in December 1832; Simon Justinien in February 1835; Améline Augustine in January 1837 but, called Élina, may have died near Paincourtville, age 18 (the recording priest said 17), in February 1855; Adrien Valmon born in June 1840; Joséphine Marie in October 1842; François Félicien, called Félicien, in January 1845; and Henry Émile in July 1851--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1828 and 1851.  Euchariste died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in May 1868, age 67.  Daughters Éliza and Marie (perhaps Joséphine Marie) married into the Dupuy and Simoneaux families by 1870.  Three of Cariste's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Euchariste married Marie, daughter of Jean St. Germain and his Acadian wife Azélie Savoie, at the Paincourtville church in May 1857.  Did they have any children? 

Euchariste's third son Pierre Vileor married cousin Rosalie, daughter of Rosémond Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Odile Hébert, at the Paincourtville church in June 1857.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Pierre Paul Denis in June 1858; Léonard Avalse in March 1861 but, called Léonard, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in December 1862; Séverin Vileore born in November 1862; Marie Séverine in February 1865; Joseph Aristide in August 1866; Oscar in October 1868; ... 

Euchariste's sixth son Félicien married Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Landry and his Creole wife Euphrosine Malbrough and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at the Paincourtville church in July 1867.  She evidently gave him no children.  Félicien remarried to Agathe or Agatha, daughter of fellow Acadian Dorville Robichaux and his Creole wife Honorine Simoneaux, at the Paincourtville church in October 1869.  Daughter Félicia Clémentine Honorine was born near Paincourtville in August 1870; ...

Michel le jeune's eighth and youngest son Constance- or Constant-Jean-Baptiste crossed with his family to Louisiana.  If he survived the rigors of the crossing (15 passengers aboard La Ville d'Archangel died in the hospital at Algiers, across from New Orleans, soon after reaching the city), Constant would have followed his family to Bayou des Écores.  He may have been his widowed mother's "one young male child" in the New Feliciana census of 1793, when he would have been age 10 or 11, but fails to appear in the Valenzuela District census of December 1795 on the upper Lafourche with the rest of his family.  He would have been age 13 at the time, and there is no record of his having married, so he likely died young, perhaps soon after his family reached Bayou Lafourche. 

Simon (c1732-1790s?) à ? à Martin Aucoin

Simon Aucoin, born probably at Minas in c1732, was exiled to Virginia in 1755 and sent on to England in 1756.  In his early 30s, he married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Françoise Landry, in England in c1758.  Marie-Geneviève gave him a daughter there, Perpétué, born in October 1759.  In the spring of 1763, the family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée.  They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where Marie-Geneviève gave him more daughters:  Marie-Madeleine born in April 1764 but died at nearby du Pres, age 2, in March 1766; Marie-Élisabeth born in May 1766; Marguerite-Geneviève in July 1768; Anne-Olive in October 1771; and Rose-Félicité in November 1773--five children, all daughters, between 1759 and 1773, in England and France.  As the birth of their children reveal, Michel and Élisabeth did not follow other exiles in the port cities to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  Simon, Marie-Geneviève, and four of their daughters, still unmarried, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo in 1785 and, from New Orleans, followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Simon and Marie-Geneviève had no more children in the Spanish colony.  One wonders if youngest daughter Rose-Félicité survived the crossing, or if Simon himself did.  If so, he died by July 1799, when his wife was called a widow in her burial record at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche, a hint that if Simon survived the crossing and the family's time at Bayou des Écores, he took his family to the upper Lafourche in the late 1780s or early 1790s.  Older daughters Perpétué, Marguerite-Geneviève, and Anne-Oliver married into the Richard, Aucoin, and Landry families on the river and on upper Bayou Lafourche, so the blood of this family line may have endured in the Bayou State. 

Charles (c1735-?) à Martin Aucoin

Charles, younger son of Pierre Aucoin by his second wife Catherine Comeau, born at Minas in c1723, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Jeanne Daigre of Pigiguit, at Rivière-aux-Canards in November 1753.  The family, which now included newborn son Pierre le jeune, was deported to Virginia in the fall of 1755, sent on to England the following spring, repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée in May 1763, and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Evidently Pierre le jeune remained their only child.  They did not go to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Charles, Madeleine, Pierre le jeune, and two kinswomen emigrated to Louisiana from St.-Malo in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  One wonders if Charles died there, and, if so, when. 

Only son Pierre le jeune followed his family to Virginia, England, Plouër-sur-Rance, and New Orleans, where, at age 30, he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Hébert and his second wife Susanne Pitre, in January 1786, soon after they reached the Spanish colony with his parents.  Marie-Josèphe was a native of Ploubalay north of Plouër.  From New Orleans, they may have followed their families to Bayou des Écores, where Marie-Josèphe may have died from the rigors of childbirth.  If Pierre le jeune went to Bayou des Écores, he did not remain.  He remarried to Marie-Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Guidry and his second wife Anne Moïse, at San Gabriel below Baton Rouge in October 1788.  She gave him two sons there:  François born in October 1789; and Pierre-Élie, called Élie, in February 1791.  Pierre le jeune died at San Gabriel in August 1792, age 37.  Both of his sons married and settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Older son François, by second wife Marie Cécile Guidry, married Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Cécile Dupuis and widow of Bernard Comeaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1818.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Euphémie in November 1818 but, called Euphémie, died at age 15 1/2 in February 1834; Trasimond François born in March 1821; Sylvanie or Sylvain in c1822; François Philosin in October 1823; Valsentin in March 1825 but, called Valentin, died at age 9 1/2 in June 1834; Pierre Telesphore, called Telesphore, born in March 1829; an infant son, name unrecorded, died at birth in November 1831; Marie Amelia born in June 1833; and Valmond in August 1835--nine children, two daughters and seven sons, between 1818 and 1835.  François, père died near St. Gabriel in January 1844.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not mention a wife or include any parents' names, said that François was age 50 he died.  He was 54.  In July 1860, the federal census taker in Iberville Parish counted a single slave--a 52-year-old black female--on Widow F. Aucoin's farm; this may have been Francois's widow, Marie Rose Richard.  Her and François's daughter did not marry by 1870, but four of their sons did.  They settled in West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, and Iberville parishes, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Trasimond married Solidaine or Solidenne, daughter of fellow Acadians Maximilien LeBlanc and Hélène Allain, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1844.  They settled near St. Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Philippe Alcide in August 1845 but, called Alcide, died at age 10 months in June 1846; Joseph Alcé born in December 1847; and Déozan in June 1851.  Trasimond remarried to Marie Bardy, daughter of Pierre Beronne or Peyronne and Marie Ambloy of Savoie, France, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1856.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Arthur in July 1857; and Marie Ernestine in December 1858--five children, four sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1845 and 1858.  None of Trasimond's children married by 1870. 

François's second son Sylvanie, also called Sylvain, married Émilie, daughter of Félix Bernard du Montier, fils and Joséphine Seguin, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1852.  Their children, born on the river, included François Pierre near Brusly in July 1853 but, called Franklin Pierce, died near Baton Rouge at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in February 1855; J. B. Rodolphe born near Baton Rouge in April 1856 but, called Jean Baptiste Rodolphe, died there at age 3 in June 1859; Marie Olivia born near  Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in June 1859; Marie Joséphine near St. Gabriel in December 1861; Marie Elmire in May 1864; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Sylvanie served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi.  Sylvanie died in Iberville Parish in January 1868, age 46.  One wonders if his early death was a result of his war service.  None of his children married by 1870. 

François's fifth son Pierre Télésphore, called Télésphore, married cousin Élodie or Élodia, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Hébert and Euphrosine Labauve, at the Brusly church in February 1853; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, on the west bank of the river.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Ulysses in October 1854; and Marie Regina in April 1859.  During the war, Télésphore served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry with his brother Sylvanie.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

François's seventh and youngest son Valmond married Libbie Stockwell, place and date unrecorded.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included James Lee in July 1865; William Randolph in January 1867; ....

Pierre le jeune's younger son Pierre Élie, called Élie, from second wife Marie Cécile Guidry, married Martine, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breaux and Élisabeth LeBlanc and widow of Jean Charles Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1819.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Jean Baptiste Rosémond in September 1820; Élisabeth Uranie, called Uranie, in January 1822 but died at age 14 1/2 in December 1837; Marie Ferasine born in August 1824 but died the following December; and Madeleine Adrienne born in July 1826--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1820 and 1826.  Élie died in December 1835.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded the burial said that Élie was age 42 when he died.  He was 44.  Remaining daughter Madeleine Adrienne married into the Betancourt family.  Élie's son also married, settled in West Baton Rouge Parish, and also died young. 

Only son Jean Baptiste Rosémond married Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Robichaux and his Creole wife Modeste Prospere of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1843.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Pierre Baltasar n February 1848; Marie Amelia in June 1849; Déozan in June 1851; twins Élisabeth Aloysia and Jean Baptiste Rosémond, fils in November 1853, but Jean Baptiste Rosemond, fils died eight days after his birth; Ernestine Philomène born in March 1856; and Élie Benjamin in September 1857--seven children, four sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, between 1848 and 1857.  Jean Baptiste Rosémond died near Brusly in October 1858.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Rosémond, as he called him, died at "age 32 years."  He was 38.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Alexandre (c1740-1780s) à Martin Aucoin

Alexandre, second son of Charles Aucoin and Anne-Marie Dupuis and brother of Olivier and Charles who crossed on La Bergère, born at Grand-Pré in c1740, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Rosalie, daughter of Charles Thériot and Françoise Landry, in c1761.  Daughter Geneviève was born in England the following year.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée in May 1763, settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west bank of the river south of St.-Malo.  Daughter Geneviève died at St.-Servan in December 1763, age 15 months.  Rosalie gave Alexandre many more children at St.-Servan and Plouër:  Marie-Élisabeth born at St.-Servan in May 1764; Marie-Madeleine in March 1766 but died at age 5 at Lannoie near Plouër in March 1771; Jean-Baptiste-Fabien born at St.-Servan in March 1768; twins Françoise-Théotiste and Noël-Alexandre at Lannoie in December 1770, but Noël died there, age 15 months, in May 1772, and Françoise died at St.-Servan, age 11, in February 1779; Perrine-Marie born at La Caillibotais near Plouër in August 1773; Marguerite-Josèphe at St.-Servan in April 1775 but died there the following October; Marie-Jeanne born in March 1777; Mathurin in c1781; and Marguerite-Josèphe in October 1783 but died at age 1 1/2 in May 1785--11 children, eight daughters and three sons, between 1762 and 1783, in England and France.  As the birth dates of their children reveal, Michel and Élisabeth did not follow other exiles in the port cities to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, Alexandre, Rosalie, and three of their children--Marie-Élisabeth and Marie-Jeanne, and Mathurin--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo.  Oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Fabrien and fifth daughter Perrine-Marie, who would have been ages 17 and 12 that year, if they were still living (unlikely), chose to remain in the mother country.  From New Orleans, Alexandre and his family followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Alexandre died by January 1788, when his wife remarried at nearby Baton Rouge.  Daughters Marie-Élisabeth and Marie-Jeanne married into the Raoul and Bourg families on the river, and one of them moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Son Mathurin was age 4 when he came to the Spanish colony.  If he survived the crossing from France, he did not marry, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph le jeune (c1744-1790s?) à Alexis à Martin Aucoin

Joseph le jeune, oldest son of Alexis Aucoin, fils and Hélène Blanchard, brother of Fabien of La Bergère and Mathurin-Jean of L'Amitié and nephew of Joseph l'aîné of La Ville d'Archangel, was born at Cobeguit in c1744.  He escaped with his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756, followed them to St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowed mother at Ploubalay on the west bank of the river southwest of St.-Malo and at St.-Coulomb in the countryside northeast of the port.  Joseph le jeune married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marie-Claire Dugas, at Ploubalay in March 1764.  Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph le jeune a large family at nearby Tréméreuc and in other villages near Ploubalay:  Alexis-Joseph born in April 1765; Pierre-Jean at nearby La Croix in May 1766; Charles-Étienne at Tréméreuc in October 1767 but died at age 10 in November 1777; Fabien-Isaac born in May 1769; Marie-Madeleine-Julienne in September 1770 but died at age 7 in November 1777 three days before brother Charles-Étienne died; Mathurin-Jean born in April 1772; Joseph-Marie in April 1775; Anne-Marguerite in December 1776 but died at age 11 months in November 1777; Malo-Jean born in February 1778; and Malo-Dieutonne at Villou in March 1780 but died at age 1 in May 1781.  Marie-Josèphe died at Villou near Tréméreuc in June 1781, age about 37.  As the birth dates of his children reveal, Joseph le jeune did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join hundreds of other Acadians exiles in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  He and four of his sons emigrated to Louisiana directly from St.-Malo.  Second son Pierre-Jean, who would have been age 19 in 1785, if he were still living, did not follow his family to the Spanish colony.  Seventh son Malo-Jean, who also did not go to Louisiana, would have been age 7 in 1785, so he probably had died young.  From New Orleans, Joseph le jeune and his sons followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  At age 44, Joseph le jeune remarried to cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Aucoin and Marguerite Thériot, probably at Bayou des Écores in May 1788.  Marie gave him more children there:  Germain-Jacques born in December 1788; and Jean-Baptiste baptized by a Pointe Coupée priest, age unrecorded, in May 1792--a dozen children, 10 sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1765 and 1792, in France and Louisiana.  Joseph le jeune may have died at Bayou des Écores in the 1790s.  Four of his sons created their own families on upper Bayou Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Alexis-Joseph, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert, followed his widowed father and brothers to New Orleans, where he married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Henry and his second wife Anne Thibodeau, at New Orleans in January 1786 soon after they reached Louisiana on the same vessel.  Françoise was a native of Pleurtuit near Tréméreuc.  One wonders if they followed his family to Bayou des Écores or went straight to Bayou Lafourche, where Françoise gave him two daughters:  Marie-Françoise born in October 1794; and Rosalie-Josèphe baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in April 1797.  At age 34, Alexis remarried to Anne-Marguerite dite Annette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Anastasie Barrilleaux, on the upper Lafourche in January 1799.  Marguerite, a native of St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier ship.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Anne-Victoire or Victoire-Anastasie in December 1799; Alexis-Célestin, called Célestin, in May 1801; another Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, in September 1803 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in June 1823; Jean Baptiste le jeune born in July 1805; Théotiste Rosalie in July 1807; Léon in May 1811; Basile Joseph or Joseph Basile in December 1812 but died Assumption Parish, age 24, in 1836; Ursin born in c1814; Joseph Hermogène, also called Mathurin, in April 1817; and Adeline Clémentine in July 1819--12 children, six daughters and six sons, by two wives, between 1794 and 1819.  Alexis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1826, age 61.  His succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the following month.  It listed his second wife and his surviving children, from both wives, including Ursin, age 12; Adeline, age 7; Rosalie and her husband; Victoire and her husband; Célestin, no age given (he was 25 and unmarried); Jean Baptiste, age 20; Mathurin, no age given (he was 9); Basile, age 4; Théotiste, age 18; and Léon, age 15.  Daughters Marie Françoise, Rosalie, Victoire, Théotiste, and Adeline married into the Fremin, Aucoin, LeBoeuf, Dupré, and Arcement families, one of them, Marie Françoise, twice, and two of them, Victoire and Théotiste, to Dupré brothers.  Two of Alexis's sons also married, but only one of the lines endured, in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Alexis Célestin, called Célestin, from second wife Anne Marguerite Dugas, married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Francois Thibodeaux and Brigitte Guénard and widow of Jean Boudeloche, at the Thibodaux church in February 1841.  One wonders if he and his wife had any children. 

Alexis Joseph's second Jean Baptiste le jeune, by second wife Anne Marguerite Dugas, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1857, age 52.  He may not have married.   

Alexis Joseph's third son Léon, by second wife Anne Marguerite Dugas, was still alive in September 1839, when he receipted land to brother-in-law Jérôme Dupré in Terrebonne Parish.  Léon may not have married.  

Alexis Joseph's fifth son Ursin, by second wife Anne Marguerite Dugas, married Rosalie Marianne, called Marianne, daughter of William Comstock of New Orleans and Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodaux church  in January 1840; Marianne was baptized the same day she married, so she probably was a Protestant when she met Ursin.  They settled on the lower Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish and had children years before their marriage.  Their children, born there, included Marie Emélia in September 1836; Ursin Evariste, called Evariste, in April 1839; Azéma Marie in September 1841; Marie Louise in April 1845; Adeline Norbert in Terrebonne Parish in June 1848; and Delphine Augustine in September 1851--six children, five daughters and a son , between 1836 and 1851.  Daughters Marie Emélia and Azéma married into the Benoit and Trosclair families by 1870.  Ursin's son also married. 

Only son Evariste married Marie Aimée, called Aimée and Émelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Deroche and his Creole wife Pélagie Baye of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1859, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, the following June.  They settled near Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes.  Their children, born there, included Marie in February 1860; Magdeline Marguerite Louisa in June 1865; Marie Malvina in February 1868; ...

Joseph le jeune's fourth son Fabien-Isaac, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert, followed his widowed father and brothers to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 29, he married Susanne, 30-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Darois and Madeleine Trahan, in April 1799.  Susanne, a native of Morlaix in Brittany, was Fabien's brother Mathurin's wife's sister and had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier vessel.  Her and Fabien's children, born on the Lafourche, included Marguerite-Susanne in February 1800; Fabien-Alexis, called Alexis, in March 1801; Marie Théotiste in January 1804; Marie Justine or Augustine, called Augustine and Justine, in January 1808; and Joseph Eugène in July 1809--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1800 and 1809.  Fabien Isaac died in Assumption Parish in May 1835, age 67.  Daughters Marie Théotiste, Marguerite, and Augustine married into the Giroir, Theriot, and Dupuis families.  Fabien's two sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Older son Alexis married cousin Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Marie Theriot and Anne Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1822; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie Roseline, called Roseline, in October 1823; Constant in November 1824; Séraphine Clémence or Clémentine, called Clémentine, in January 1826; Augustine in October 1827; Joseph Drosin or Drausin, called Drosin, in March 1828; Zéphirin in April 1831 but died at age 9 in November 1840; Napoléon Auguste or Augustin, called Augustin, born in February 1833; and Fabien Jean Baptiste in December 1834--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1823 and 1834.  Alexis died in Assumption Parish in June 1835, age 34 (the recording priest said 36).  Daughters Roseline, Clémentine, and Augustine married into the Aucoin, Crochet, and Blanchard families by 1870.  Two of Alexis's sons also married by then. 

Second son Drosin, at age 42, married Célina, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Trahan and his Creole wife Éleonore Oufnac and widow of Émile Breaux, at the Pierre Part church, Assumption Parish, in March 1870. ...

Alexis's fourth son Augustin married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Landry and his Creole wife Roseline Simoneaux, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1856.  They settled near Pierre Part on Lake Verret.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élizabeth in October 1857; and Clémentine Julienne in September 1860.  Augustin remarried to Desi Rosalie or Edesie, daughter of Anaclet Simoneaux and his Acadian wife Constance Landry and widow of Arsène Frioux, at the Paincourtville church in February 1867.  Their children, born near Paincourtville, included Marie Palmire in August 1867; Augustin Albert in October 1870; ... 

Fabien Isaacs's younger son Joseph Eugène married Marie Madeleine Zépheline or Zéphirine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Dupuis and Rose Hébert, at the Plattenville church in February 1834.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Rose Tarzille or Thelcide, called Thelcide, in December 1834; Élize Augustine in April 1836; Octavie Joséphine in February 1838; Apollinaire Augustin in April 1840; Augustine Arselie in May 1842; Jean Baptiste Adrien in February 1844; J. Baptiste Eugène, called Eugène, in September 1846; and Marie Victoria in October 1848--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1834 and 1848.  Daughters Thelcide and Élize married into the Theriot and Gorret families by 1870.  One of Joseph Eugène's sons also married by then and settled on the lower Atchafalaya.

Third and youngest son Eugène married Laura, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Arsène Gautreaux and his Creole wife Marie Arthemise Frederick of St. James Parish, at the Brashear, now Morgan, City church, St. Mary Parish, in October 1869. ...

Joseph le jeune's fifth son Mathurin-Jean le jeune, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert, followed his widowed father and brothers to New Orleans and Bayou des Écores, where he married cousin Madeleine Aucoin "of Lafourche" in the early 1790s.  Their children, born at nearby Baton Rouge, included Jean-Baptiste in May 1792; and Joseph-Firmin baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1794 but died at age 20 months the following September.  Mathurin-Jean remarried to Marie-Madeleine, another daughter of Étienne Darois and Madeleine Trahan, at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in November 1799.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of Morlaix, was Mathurin's brother Fabien's wife's sister and had come to Louisiana from France aboard an earlier ship.  Her and Mathurin-Jean's children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Désiré-Mathurin in March 1801 but, called Désiré Jean, died in Assumption Parish, age 27, in June 1828; and Joseph Eugène, also called Mathurin Joseph, born in June 1805--four children, all sons, by two wives, between 1792 and 1805.  Mathurin Jean le jeune died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1835, age 63.  Only one of his sons married. 

Fourth and youngest son Joseph Eugène, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Darois, married Azélie Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte LeBlanc and Marie Marguerite Gaudet, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Azélie or Azèle Domitilde in April 1828; Mathurin Eugène in February 1830; Marie Louise, called Louise, in December 1831; and Joseph Louis, called Louis, in November 1836--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1828 and 1835.  Joseph Eugène died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1839, age 33.  An appraisement of his estate, naming his wife and listing his children--Mathurin, Louise, Louis, and Azèle and her Meyer husband--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in February 1847.  According to the appraisement, Joseph Eugène's widow Adélaïde remarried to a Lamoureaux.  Daughters Azélie and Marie Louise married into the Meyer and Hoffmann families.  Joseph Eugène's two sons also married and settled on the bayou.

Older son Mathurin Eugène married Catherine, daughter of André Skinner and Hortense Maronge, at the Thibodaux church in May 1849.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Adélaïde in July 1851; Jules Apollinaire in July 1853 but, called Jule A., died at age 1 1/2 in November 1854; Louisa Amanda born in November 1854; Rosa Émelie in April 1857; and twins Joseph Louis Mathurin, called Louis, and Octave Adrien in November 1859, but both of them died 10 days apart the following April--six children, three daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, between 1851 and 1859.  Mathurin remarried to Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Barrilleaux and Cléonise Potier, at the Thibodaux church in January 1861.  None of Mathurin's daughters married by 1870. 

Joseph Eugène's younger son Joseph Louis married Cécilia Marie Anne, daughter of Jean Baptiste Lagarde and Marie Anne Legendre, at the Thibodaux church in November 1865. ...

Joseph le jeune's sixth son Joseph-Marie, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Hébert, followed his widowed father and brothers to New Orleans, Bayou des Écores, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  In 1795 and 1797, in his early 20s, Joseph-Marie was living with his brothers at Assumption on the upper Lafourche.  He probably did not marry.  One wonders if he was the Joseph Aucoin who died in Assumption Parish in February 1832, or the Joseph dit Joson Aucoin who died in Assumption Parish in December 1833  The Plattenville priest or priests who recorded the burials, and who did not give any parents' names or mention any wives, said that both Josephs died at age 50, which places their birth years in the early 1780s.  Joseph Marie à Joseph, born in April 1775, would have been in his late 50s in 1832-33, so this may not have been him. 

Joseph le jeune's tenth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marie Aucoin, followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche and married Marie Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Richard and Marie Josèphe Trahan, at the Plattenville church in February 1811.  Their children, born on the Lafourche included Jean Baptiste Alexis in December 1811 but died at age 23 in 1834; and Pauline born probably in the 1810s.  Jean Baptiste died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1844, age 54.  Daughter Pauline married into the Guédry family.  Jean Baptiste's son evidently did not marry, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure. 

Babin

Antoine Babin, a farmer perhaps from La Chaussée south of the middle Loire in the region of Loudun, France, born in c1631, came to Acadia by c1662, when he married Marie, daughter of  ____ Mercier and Françoise Gaudet.  (After Marie's father died, her mother remarried to Daniel LeBlanc and became the matriarch of an even larger Acadian clan.)  Antoine died at Port-Royal in c1687, in his mid-50s, and Marie Mercier became a widow like her mother.  But before his death, she gave Antoine 11 children, seven daughters and four sons, at Port-Royal.  Their daughters married into the Rimbault, Landry, Richard dit Sansoucy, Doucet, Breau, Comeau, Doiron, Benoit, Martin, Sauneuf, and Pitre families.  Three of their four sons married into the Richard, Thériot, and Boudrot families.  Antoine and Marie's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Cap-Sable; Grand-Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, and Ste.-Famille and l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; and in the French Maritimes.  They were especially numerous at Minas.  Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family even farther. 

The Acadians at Chignecto were the first to fall into the hands of the British, who exiled the ones they could catch to their southermost seaboard colonies.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported a Chignecto Babin family to South Carolina.  His brother, meanwhile, slipped away from the British, made his way to Canada, and resettled at Cap-St.-Ignace on the St. Lawrence River below Québec City.  Babin families rounded up at Grand-Pré and Pigiguit were deported to Massachusetts, Maryland, and Virginia.  The few Minas Babins who escaped the British moved north to Miramichi, Nepisiguit, and other refugee camps on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, Basile Babin, a grandson of Antoine's oldest son Charles, either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, where he married a Saulnier and was counted with her in August 1763.  Two, perhaps three, other Babins, who had taken refuge at Nepisiguit also ended up at Halifax, where, along with their married cousin, they appeared on a repatriation list in August 1763.  Unlike Basile's widow and daughters, who refused to live under British rule, these Babins chose to remain in greater Acadia, settling at Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau northwest of Cap-Sable.  A Babin in the region who may have eluded capture chose to resettle in the British-controlled fishery at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Another chose to go first to Minudie, Chignecto, then received landgrants at Scoudouc on the Gulf shore of southeastern New Brunswick in the early 1800s.  After the war, Minas Babins who had endured exile in Massachusetts chose to join their cousins in Canada.  Especially after 1766, they could be found in the far-northern province at Deschambault and Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence; and at Cap-St.-Ignace, St.-Jean-Port-Joli, and St.-Roch-des-Aulnaies on the lower St. Lawrence.  Babins also settled in greater Acadia at Rivière St.-Jean in the interior of present-day New Brunswick.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada and greater Acadia lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and, until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

The Babins shipped to Virginia endured a fate worse than most of the other refugees deported from Minas.  In mid-November 1755, when five transports appeared unexpectedly at Hampton Roads, Virginia's governor Robert Dinwiddie protested their deportation to his colony without his consent.  Exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while Virginia authorities pondered their fate.  As winter approached, the governor ordered Acadians from one vessel to be moved up to Richmond, two of the vessels were unloaded at Hampton, and two more at Norfolk.  Finally, in the spring of 1756, the governor, his council, and the colony's Burgesses made their decision ... the "papists" must go!  In May, the first shipment of Acadians in hired vessels left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Southampton, and 336 to Liverpool--1,225 exiles in all by one count.  Their ordeal only worsened in the English ports, where they were held in warehouses and where many died of smallpox.  By 1763, more than half of the exiles sent from Virginia to England were dead. 

At least two Babins who ended up in France did not get there via Virginia and England.  When the British rounded up the Nova Scotia Acadians in the autumn of 1755, the Acadians on the Maritime islands remained unmolested because they were living in territory controlled by France.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the redcoats swooped down on the islands and deported most of the habitants to France.  A family of Babins crossed on the transport Tamerlane, which left Chédabouctou Bay in a 12-ship convoy in late November 1758 and, despite a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England that sank three other vessels, reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Another island Babin ended up on one of the five deportation transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in the 12-ship convoy and, despite the storm, reached St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  He settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  In 1761, he joined the crew of the corsair Tigre but was captured and held in England until 1763.  He returned to Pleudihen that year and then left for the îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands, aboard L'Aigle in November 1765. 

In the spring of 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England, including Babins, were repatriated to France.  They arrived at St.-Malo in late May aboard La Dorothée and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In the fall of 1765, most of them joined fellow exiles from Virginia in a settlement venture on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Not all of them remained there.  Later in the decade, a family of Babins, along with other Acadians in France, resettled on the French-controlled fishery islands of St.-Pierre and Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  In 1773, at least one Babin followed other Acadian exiles to the Channel island of Jersey on their way back to North America to work in British-controlled fisheries in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region.  At least two Babin families remained at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Another Babin reached St.-Malo "from other ports" in 1763.  He lived at neaby Pleudihen-sur-Rance but moved on to Morlaix on the northwest coast of Brittany in 1764.  Another Babin ended up in France by a different route.  At age 12, he had escaped the British roundup at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and ended up in the prison compound at Halifax in the early 1760s.  At war's end, he chose to go to Île Miquelon, where, at age 23, he married a fellow exile in Notre-Dame-des-Ardiliers Parish in May 1766.  In 1767, French officials, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on the fishery islands, evidently sent the couple with other fisher/habitants to France.  Along with most of the other islanders, the young couple likely returned to Miquelon in 1768 and created a family there.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British, again at war with France, captured îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon and deported the fisher/habitants to France.  The Babin family left Miquelon aboard La Jeannette, reached St.-Malo that November, and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer among their Babin cousins.  Meanwhile, French authorities grew tired of providing for the exiles languishing in the port cities.  In the early 1770s, an influential nobleman offered to settle them on land he owned in the interior of Poitou near Châtellerault.  A Babin family who had come from Virginia and settled at St.-Servan agreed to go.  After two years of effort, the family retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes and settled at nearby Chantenay, where they returned to the government dole.

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Four of the Babins still in the mother country agreed to take it.  At least one Babin, who had married a local French girl, remained on Belle-Île-en-Mer, where, in 1792, during the early stages of the French Revolution, his fellow citizens elected him a municipal officer at Le Palais, the island's capital.  He remarried at Le Palais, and two of his daughters married in France. 

In North America, at war's end, at least one family of Babins in the seaboard colonies emigrated not to Canada, where the British ruled, but to the French Antilles, where they did not.  While the end-of-war treaty was being negotiated, French officials encouraged exiles in the British colonies to resettle in St.-Dominique.  Although driven from North America by the Seven Years' War, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking empire.  A new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the big island would protect the approaches to their remaining possessions in the Caribbean basin and assist in the "war of revenge" to come.  Exiles lured to St.-Domingue would prove a ready source of labor not only for the naval contractors, but also for the islands's wealthy planters, who hoped to supplement the work of their slaves.  To sweeten the deal, the French promised the Acadians land of their own in the sugar colony.  Victoire, daughter of Chares Babin and Marie Hébert, was born at the new French naval base of Môle St.-Nicolas, St.-Domingue, in c1781. 

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

The many Babins in Maryland endured life among Englishmen who, despite their colony's Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" thrust upon them.  In July 1763, the war now over, nearly a dozen Babin families appeared on French repatriation lists at Georgetown, Fredericktown, Princess Anne, Port Tobacco, Upper Marlborough, and Oxford.  These were the Babins from the Minas settlements--Grand-Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, and Pigiguit--whom the British had deported to the colony eight years earlier.  When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that fellow exiles had been welcomed in Louisiana, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans.  At least 61 Babins left for Louisiana in 1766, 1767, and 1768 and settled in a number of communities there.  Other Babins chose to remain in Maryland.  Surrounded by fellow exiles and French expatriates, some of these stay-behinds settled at Frenchtown in Baltimore, where their transition from Acadien to Americain went faster for them than for their cousins who had gone on to the Spanish colony. 

The last group of Babins to come to Louisiana did so in a unique way.  In 1788, five Babins--three brothers and two sisters, ages 25 to 15, all unmarried, children of Joseph Babin--were living with their widowed mother, Marine LeBlanc, on Île St.-Pierre, one of the French-controlled fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland that had been returned to France five years earlier.  Joseph Gravois III of Chignecto, probably a kinsman, was captain of the schooner La Brigite, based at Île St.-Pierre.  The widow and her five children agreed to accompany Gravois and his family to Louisiana aboard La Brigite, which reached New Orleans in December 1788--the only group of Acadians to travel directly from greater Acadia to Louisiana and some of the last Acadians to reach the bayou country.  One of the daughters married at Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast.  One wonders what became of her siblings. 

Another Acadian Babin came to Louisiana decades after the Babin siblings arrived from Île St.-Pierre.  Early in the antebellum period, in 1809, while Louisiana was a territory of the United States, thousands of refugees from Haiti via Cuba and Jamaica arrived at New Orleans.  With them were Acadians who had left the British colonies in the early 1760s and settled in the French colony of St.-Domingue, which became the independent nation of Haiti in 1804.  Among these refugees was a young woman, Victoire, daughter of Charles Babin and Marie Hébert, who married an Anglo American from Boston, Massachusetts, in St. James Parish in September 1816.  The priest who recorded the marriage called the Babin bride a "nat. of St. Nicolas, Santo Domingo," probably the French naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest end of the island, to where the French had lured Acadian exiles to help in its construction nearly a decade before Victoire's birth. 

Babins were among the early settlers of Acadia and some of the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Two young Babin sisters came to the colony from Halifax with their widowed mother in 1765 and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans before following their Saunier mother to the Opelousas prairies.  Over the next few years, dozens of Babins from Maryland settled along the river from Cabahannocer on the lower Acadian Coast all the way up to the Spanish side of the river across from Natchez.  In the late 1760s or early 1770s, one family from the river moved to upper Bayou Teche and created a small western branch of the family.  The hand full of Acadian Babins who came to Louisiana from France in 1785 established vigorous lines among their cousins near Baton Rouge and a smaller line on upper Bayou Lafourche.  During the late colonial and early antebellum periods, Babins moved from the river to Bayou Lafourche and added substantially to that center of family settlement.  By the late antebellum period, some of them had settled as far down bayou as Lockport and Montegut at the edge of the coastal marshes in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Soon after the war of 1861-65, a few Babins from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley moved to lower Bayou Teche and out to the St. Landry prairies.  Most Babins, however, remained on the old Acadian Coast in West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Ascension, and St. James parishes.  They were especially plentiful around Gonzales, Ascension Parish, during and after the war. 

During the early colonial period, Babins from France lived at Mobile, then a part of French Louisiana.  They also could be found at New Orleans and Pointe Coupée.  Several Foreign-French Babins came to Louisiana during the antebellum period.  The great majority of the Babins of South Louisiana, however, are descendants of Antoine of La Chaussée and Port-Royal.  

Some of the Babins who remained on their original river holdings created sugar plantations that rivaled in size those of their wealthier non-Acadian neighbors.  Paul P. Babin owned 800 acres in West Baton Rouge Parish in 1860, and a hundred slaves worked his plantation and its steam-powered sugar mill.  The great majority of the Babins who owned slaves, however, held much fewer than their cousin Paul P.  In fact, most members of the family held no slaves at all, at least none who appeared in the federal slaves schedules of 1850 and 1860, so they participated only peripherally in the antebellum South's plantation-based economy. ...

Dozen of Babins served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and several of them died in Confederate service.  ...  Meanwhile, the war took a terrible toll on the Babin family's economic standing.  After Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal forces controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every farm and plantation their forces could reach.  This included the Babin holdings in the Acadian Coast parishes.  Meanwhile, Union navy gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantations houses along the lower river.  ...

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Babain, Babein, Baden, Baven, Boben, Vaven.74

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The first Acadian Babins in Louisiana were two sisters--Lisa-Marie-Josèphe, called Lise, Lizette, or Marie, age  5; and Marie-Josèphe, age 1--born in the prison compound at Halifax, Nova Scotia.  They followed their widowed mother--Anne Saulnier, widow of Basile Babin--to New Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765, settled with her at Cabahannocer, followed her to Opelousas, returned to the river after they came of age, and married.  The younger sister remained at Cabahannocer, while the older one followed her husband to Bayou Lafourche. 

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Twenty-one more Babins came to the colony from Maryland in September 1766.  They included the first male Babins--three sets of brothers from the Pigiguit area.  Each of them settled at Cabahannocer and Ascension on the river, but some of their descendants moved down to Bayou Lafourche and even farther down into the Terrebonne country.  Most of the Babins of South Louisiana descend from these 1766 arrivals:

 Charles (c1742-?) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Charles, eldest son of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, followed his family to Maryland in 1755. He, his widowed mother, and many of his siblings appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Still a bachelor in his mid 20s, he came to Louisiana with two of his younger unmarried siblings.  Charles married cousin Élisabeth, also called Madeleine, daughter of perhaps Germain Babin and Marguerite Landry, at Cabahannocer in March 1767 soon after reaching the colony.  In 1770, they were living on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the river, included Joseph in c1769; Alain in c1772; Marie-Madeleine in March 1774; Marie-Constance, called Constance, baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1777; and Marie, perhaps Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, born in March 1779--five children, two sons and three daughters, between the late 1760s and 1779.  Charles died by November 1781, when wife Madeleine remarried to a Landry widower at Ascension.  Daughters Victoire and Constance married into the Breaux and Landry families.  Both of Charles's sons married on the river.  The older son settled in Lafourche Interior Parish and created a vigorous family line there and in the Terrebonne country.  The younger son's line did not endure.  

Older son Joseph married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Godin dit Lincour and Marie-Josèphe Babin, at Ascension in June 1801.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Renée-Mélanie in May 1802; Rosalie in September 1803; Joseph Thomas in December 1804; Jean Varice or Evariste, called Evariste, in October 1806; Félonise in July 1808; twins Madeleine or Marie Joséphine and Marie Hortense in October 1814; Marcellin in January 1817; and Charles Dominique, called Charles D., Damis, Dom, Domi, Donis, Dumien, and Rami in September 1820--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1802 and 1820.  In the 1820s, Joseph moved his family to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Daughters Renée Mélanie, Rosalie, Félonise, and Marie Joséphine married into the Hébert, Babin, Bergeron, and LeBoeuf families.  All of Joseph's sons married.  Some of his children remained on Bayou Lafourche, while others settled in Terrebonne Parish.  

Oldest son Joseph Thomas married Céleste Phelonise, called Phelonise, daughter of Jean Jacques LeBoeuf and Marie Jeanne Lirette of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1830.  They settled at Bayou Cannes or Cane in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Asilda or Elezida, called Elezida, in September 1831; Marie Florinne in November 1833; Joseph Blaise, called Blaise, in February 1836; Étienne Eusilien, called Eusilien, in December 1838; Théodule Éloi in December 1841; Marie Odilia, Odelia, or Odile at Bayou Cannes in April 1847; Léontine Élisabeth, called Élisabeth, in January 1850; Mathilde Alida or Elda, called Elda, in the early 1850s; and Alide Célestine, called Célestine, in November 1854--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1831 and 1854.  Joseph T., as the recording clerk called him, died in Terrebonne Parish in July 1863, age 58.  A petition for administration of his estate, naming his wife and giving her death date (May 1864), as well as naming their children, including Elezida and her husband, Blaise and his wife, Marie and her husband, Euzelien, Odile and her husband, Léonce[sic, probably Élisabeth] and her husband, Elda, and Célestine--was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1870.  Daughters Elezida, Marie, Odelia, Élisabeth, and Mathilde Alida married into the Bourgeois, Hébert, Barrios, Rhodes, and Choistre or Choueste families by 1870.  Two of Joseph Thomas's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Joseph Blaise, called Blaise, married Milie Gurvillia, Sévelienne, Survilia, or Suvilia, daughter of Narcisse Marcel and Céleste Rhodes or Rose of Terrebonne Parish, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1858, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Narcisse, called Narcisse, in October 1859; Cez Adorestille in August 1861 but died "at age 5 or 6 mths." the following January; a child, name unrecorded, died "at age 5 or 6 mths." in Terrebonne Parish in January 1862; Louisianne Malvina; and Felonise, also called Joséphine, in May 1865--five children, at least one son and three daughters, between 1859 and 1865.  Blaise died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Blaise died "at age 40 yrs."  He was 30.  A petition for tutorship of his children, calling him Blaise, giving his parents' names, calling his wife Suvilia Marcel, and listing his remaining children--Narcisse, Louisana, and Joséphine--was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1870. 

Joseph Thomas's second son Eusilien married Odille, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Broussard and his Creole wife Marie Louise Buquet of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in October 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Pauline Evelia in January 1861; Jean Celas Elphége in September 1863; Michel Aristide in September 1866; Marie Onesilia in May 1869; ... 

Joseph's second son Jean Evariste, called Evariste, married Marie Rosalie or Rosalie Marie, also called Marguerite and Marie Josephine, another daughter of Jean Jacques LeBoeuf and Marie Jeanne Lirette, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1833.  They settled on the Lafourche and at Bayou Cannes or Cane in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adeline, called Adeline, in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1834; Marguerite Evelina in September 1836; Fidelie Andilia or Odille, called Odille, in April 1840; Élise Phelonise dite Lise in December 1842; Rosa Émelie, called Émelie, in July 1845; Private Trasimont, called Trasimond, on Bayou Black in August 1848; Mélissen Mathilda or Mathilde, called Mathilde, at Bayou Cannes in August 1851; Marie Lurina or Turvina in April 1854; and Faustin or Fostin Marcellin in February 1857--nine children, seven daughters and two sons, between 1834 and 1857.  Evariste died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1857, age 51.  A petition for tutorship of his children, calling him Evariste and naming his wife and children, including spouses--Adeline and her husband, Odille and her husband, Lise and her husband, Émelie, Trasimon, Mathilde, Fostin Marcellin, and Marie Turvina--was filed at the Houma courthouse in August 1860.  Daughters Adeline, Odille, Lise, Émelie, and Mathilde married into the Buquet, Hébert, and LeBoeuf families, including two Buquets and two Héberts, by 1870.  Neither of Evariste's sons married by then. 

Joseph's third son Marcellin married Théotiste, daughter of Narcisse Marcel and Céleste Rhodes of Terrebonne Parish, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in Terrebonne Parish in the late 1830s, when Marcellin would have been in his early 20s.  In July 1838, at the Terrebonne Parish courthouse, Marcellin, age 21, awarded a mainlevée, or relief, probably from a mortgage, to fellow Acadian Célestin Bergeron.  Marcellin and Théotiste's children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marguerite Uzelia in November 1840; Célestin Théophile in January 1843; Marcellin, fils in June 1845; Aurelie in Terrebonne Parish in June 1848; Lutetia in December 1850; Eusilien in November 1854; and Narcisse in October 1858--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1840 and 1858.  Daughters Marguerite Uzelia and Aurelie married into the Darce family by 1870, evidently to the same fellow.  One of Marcellin's sons also married by then. 

During the War of 1861-65, Marcellin's second son Marcellin, fils served in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and, at age 25, married cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Babin and Angelina Pitre, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1870.  Daughter Marie Lotitia was born in Terrebonne Parish in September 1870; ...

Joseph fourth and youngest son Charles Dominique, also called Damis, married Marie Estelle, daughter of Antoine Domingue and Jeanne Sylvie, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October 1842.  Their son Louis was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1843.  Charles Dominique/Damis remarried to Spanish Creole Marie Esteve at the Houma church in June 1849, but they evidently had lived together for a time or had married civilly before their church wedding.  They settled on Bayou Petit Caillou and at Montegut in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born there, included twins Carlos Émile and Joseph Apoda or Spoda in October 1845; Antoine Florida in March 1850; Marie in June 1854; Adam Erneste in November 1856; Emma Eda in November 1859; Célestin Théophile in December 1866; ...  None of Damis's children married by 1870. 

Charles's younger son Alain married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Osite Landry, at Ascension in May 1794.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Alain-Séverin in February 1795; and Marie-Bathilde posthumously in January 1797.  Alain died at Ascension in October 1796, age 24.  Did any of his children survive childhood?

Amand (c1743-1808) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Amand, second son of Paul Babin and Marie Landry and brother of Charles, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1743, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  In his early 20s in Maryland, he married Marie-Anastasie, called Anastasie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan, in c1766.  Anastasie also was a native of Pigiguit.  They came to Louisiana in 1766 with two of his unmarried sisters and settled on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer near the boundary between the two districts.  Amand and Anastasie's children, born on the river, included Paul in c1768 but died at age 4 in August 1772; Grégoire born in c1769 but died at age 3 in September 1772; Alexandre-Eusèbe or Eusèbe-Alexandre, called Alex, born in c1772; Simon-Raphaël, called Simonet and Raphaël, in August 1773; Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, in January 1775 but died the following July; Anne-Madeleine, called Madeleine, baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1777; Marguerite born in August 1779 but died at age 22 in July 1802; Augustin born in April 1781 but died at age 2 1/2 in July 1783; Landry born in November 1782; Pierre-Maximilien, called Maximilien and Émilien, in November 1784; Louis in April 1786; Justine in June 1787 but died at age 21 months, 4 days, in September 1789; Isabelle-Augustine baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1788; Marie-Bathilde born in October 1789--14 children, nine sons and five daughters, between 1768 and 1789.  Wife Anastasie died at Ascension in August 1795, age 48.  Amand did not remarry.  He died in Ascension Parish in April 1808, age 66.  Daughters Madeleine and Marie Bathilde married into the Dugas and LeBlanc families.  Four of Amand's sons married and created large families of their own.  Two of them settled on Bayou Lafourche.  The others remained on the river in Ascension Parish.  Some of Amand's grandsons settled in nearby Iberville Parish.  Many of his descendants married cousins and helped create the largest Babin family line in South Louisiana. 

Third son Alexandre-Eusèbe dit Alex married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Duhon and Anne LeBlanc, at Cabahannocer in December 1793.  Their children, born at nearby Ascension, included twins Alexandre-Valéry, called Valéry, and Madeleine, also called Madeleine-Adélaise, in October 1795; Narcisse in December 1797 but died at age 18 in February 1816; Marguerite-Eugénie born in March 1800; Maximilien le jeune, called Émilien and Milien, in February 1802; and Marie Clémence, called Clémence, in September 1804.  Alex, in his late 30s, remarried to cousin Madeleine Sylvina, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvain LeBlanc and Marie Josèphe Babin and widow of Pierre Landry, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in January 1809.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Vital Trasimond, called Trasimond, in November 1809; Alexandre Homer or Homer Alexandre, in September 1811 but died at age 1 in September 1812; and Madeleine born in January 1815--nine children, five sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1795 and 1815.  Alex, in his early 50s, remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Marie Madeleine Breaux, widow of Raphael Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1825; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  She gave him no more children.  Alex, called Eusèbe by the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, died in Ascension Parish in November 1831.  The priest said Eusèbe was age 65 when he died.  He was closer to 60.  Daughters Madeleine Adélaise, Marguerite Eugènie, Clémence, and Madeleine, by his first two wives, married into the Landry and LeBlanc families, three of them to Landrys, the youngest, Madeleine, to two of them.  Three of Alex's sons also married to cousins on the river. 

Oldest son Alexandre Valéry, called Valéry, a twin, from first wife Anne Duhon, married double cousin Adélaïre or Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Osite LeBlanc, at the Donaldson church in August 1816.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Antoine Valéry in April 1817; Catherine Euphrosie in March 1819 but died the following October; Alexandre Maximilien or Maximilien Alexandre born in August 1820; and Thomas or Damas Albert in March 1823 but died at age 5 months the following September--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1817 and 1823.  Valéry died in Ascension Parish in February 1826, age 30.  Adélaïde remarried to a Landry widower at the Donaldsonville in July 1827.  Valéry's remaining sons married.

Oldest son Antoine Valéry married cousin Delphine Élisabeth or Élisabeth Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Joseph Landry and Madeleine Sidalise Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1838.  They lived near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre Amédée, called Amédée, in March 1839; Calliste Valmon or Valmond in October 1841; Albert Hiriart in February 1844 but, called Antoine Hiriart, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1845; Louis Despalier born in August 1847; and Delphine Sidalise posthumously in February 1850--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1839 and 1850.  Antoine V., as the recording priest called him, died "at New River," Ascension Parish, in November 1849, age 32.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but two of his sons did.

Oldest son Amédée married double cousin Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Joséphine Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1862.  Daughter Élisabeth Ela was born in Ascension Parish in January 1863; ...

Antoine Valéry's third and youngest son Louis Despalier married fellow Acadian Marie Evelina Hébert, place and date unrecorded.  Their son François Terence was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in October 1869; ... 

Alexandre Valéry's second son Alexandre Maximilien or Maximilien Alexandre married Marie Clémentine, called Clémentine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dupuy and Marianne Blanchard, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1842.  They, too, lived near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, include Eusèbe Alces or Alcée, called Alcée, in August 1843; Martin Alfred in November 1845; Michel Alcide in September 1847 but, called Alcide, died at age 1 in November 1848; Justine Amanda born in September 1849; and Louis Auguste Marchand in September 1853--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1843 and 1853.  Alexandre Maximilien died near St. Gabriel in September 1853, age 33.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Alcée married Adelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Arsène Hébert and Euphrosine Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1870.  Daughter Clémentine Alixe was born in Ascension Parish in October 1870; ...

Alexandre Eusèbe's third son Maximilien le jeune, called Émilien and Milien, from first wife Anne Duhon, married cousin Marie Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Breaux and Victoire Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in July 1825; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Victoire Malvina, called Malvina, in March 1829; an unnamed daughter, age unrecorded, died in March 1831; an infant son, name unrecorded, died several days after his birth in January 1833; Alexandre Germain, called Germain, born in February 1834; Étienne Adélard in December 1836; Barbe in December 1839 but died the following August; Anne Adeline born in December 1841 but died at age 2 1/2 in September 1844; and Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, born in September 1847--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1829 and 1847.  Milien died in Ascension Parish in September 1853, age 51 (the recording priest, who gave no parents' names nor mentioned a wife, said 52).  Daughters Malvina and Eugénie married into the Dugas and Lamarre families by 1870.  One of Milien's sons also married by then. 

Second son Alexandre Germain, called Germain, married cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Siffrien Babin and Jeanette Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1855.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Elmire in November 1855; Germaine Victoire, a daughter, in March 1858; Marie Althée in May 1859 but, called Marie Altée, died at age 1 in May 1860; Marc Ulise, probably Ulysse, born in October 1860; Geneviève Norma in January 1862 but died the following September; Horvilia born in c1865 or 1866 but died at age "1 year and 11 months" in January 1868; Simon Gilbert born in February 1868 but, called Gilbert, died the following August; ...  None of Germain's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre Eusèbe's fourth son Vital Trasimond, called Trasimond, by second son Madeleine LeBlanc, married cousin Clarisse Zoé, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Melançon and Madeleleine LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1829; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Alexandre Sosthène, called Sosthène, in October 1830; Madeleine Élodie in January 1833 but died at age 14 1/2 in June 1847; Julienne Élisabeth born in February 1835; a newborn, name unrecorded, died at age 8 days in April 1837; twins Marie Élisabeth Eugènie, called Eugénie, and Marie Irène born in October 1838; Clairesse or Clarice Adelina, perhaps also called Elvina or Elvenia Clarisse, in September 1840; Marie Hermini in November 1842; Vincent Vital, called Vital, in April 1845; Jules in May 1847; and Marie Elmire, called Elmire, in October 1851--11 children, at least three sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins, between 1830 and 1851.  Daughters Julienne Élisabeth, Eugénie, Elvina Clarisse,and Elmire married into the LeBlanc, Lavergne, Breaux, Babin, and Bullian families, one of them, Clarisse, three times, twice to Breauxs, and two of them, Julienne and Eugénie, on the same day, by 1870.  Two of Trasimond's sons also married by then, one of them evidently after completing his war service. 

Older son Alexandre Sosthène, called Sosthène, married Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marie Rose Hébert, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1851.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Alexandre Sosthène, fils in December 1851; Auger Vilior in February 1855; Jean Vintrex in October 1856; and Madelaine Justilia in July 1858--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1851 and 1858.  None of Sosthène's children married by 1870. 

Trasimond's younger son Vital may have been the V. Babin who served in the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry during the War of 1861-65.  If so, he survived the war, returned to his family, and married cousin Emelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Hébert and Delite Babin, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in January 1868.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Michel Just in September 1868; Ursin Hippolyte in August 1870; ...

Amand's fourth son Simon-Raphaël dit Simonet married cousin Marguerite-Apolline, called Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marguerite LeBlanc of San Gabriel, at Ascension in January 1796.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Simon-Sifroi, called Sifroi, Siffren, Siffrin, Siffrien, and Siphrin, in November 1796; Augustine-Séraphine, called Séraphine, in January 1798 but died at age 3 in January 1801; Alexandre-Eugène born in April 1799; Constance-Adélaïde in July 1800 but died at age 11 in October 1811; Evariste born in October 1801; Marguerite-Léonise or -Cléonise in September 1803; Louis Survandeau in April 1805; Adile, also called Adélaïde or Adeline dite Adélitte, in May 1807; a son, name unrecorded, died an infant in August 1808; Maxile born in the late 1800s; Valentin Jean born in March 1810; and Marcellin Michel in September 1811 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in February 1831--12 children, nine sons and three daughters, between 1796 and 1811.  Simon Raphael died in Ascension Parish in July 1822, age 49.  Daughters Marguerite Cléonise and Adile dite Adélitte married into the LeBlanc, Landry, Hébert, and Melançon families, one of them three times.  Four of Simonet's sons also married on the river, all of them to cousins, one of them four times, another twice. 

Oldest son Simon Sifroi, Siffrin, or Siffrien married cousin Madeleine Julienne, called Julienne and Sevastienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Bénoni Landry and his Creole wife Marie Jeanne Chauvin, at the Donaldson church in June 1818; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry.  Their son Raphaël Jacques or Raphaël Guy was baptized at Donaldson, age unrecorded, in June 1819.  Siffrien remarried to cousin Marie Loraide or Zorai, daughter of fellow Acadians Francois Landry and Constance Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1823.  Their daughter Marie Elvinia was born in Ascension Parish in February 1824.  Siffrien remarried again--his third marriage--to another cousin, Marie Léocade, called Léocade, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Landry and Osite LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1826, but she died soon after their wedding.  Siffrien remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to cousin Marie Jeanette, called Jeanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Melançon and Madeleine LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1829; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity and fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascenion Parish, included Jérôme Émile, called Émile, in January 1830; an infant son, name unrecorded, died a week after his birth in April 1831; Édouard born in April 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1834; Marie Elmire born in April 1834 but, called Elmire, died at age 19 in June 1853; Aimée Marguerite or Marguerite Aimé born in September 1836; Simon Sifrain or Siffrien, called Siffrien, fils, in July 1840; Félix in July 1842 but died in September; Julienne Emma born in January 1845 but, called Emma, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1846; and Joseph Tailor born posthumously in May 1847 but, called Joseph Taylor, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1848--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, by three of his wives, between 1819 and 1847.  Siffrien, called Siffrin, died in Ascension Parish in February 1847, age 50 (the recording priest said 51).  Daughter Aimée, by his fourth wife, married a Babin cousin by 1870.  Three of Siffrien's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Raphaël Jacques, by first wife Julienne Landry, married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Judite Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in May 1840.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie or Mary Olivia in January 1842; Paul Olime in November 1845; Jacques Olivier in May 1847; Judit Aufelia in March 1853; Élisabeth Ursule in September 1855; Anne Georgina in April 1857; Marie Eugénie in April 1860; Eva Julia in August 1864; ...  Daughter Mary Olivia married into the Bourgeois family by 1870.  Neither of Raphaël's sons married by then. 

Siffrien's second son Émile, by fourth wife Jeanette Melançon, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Ulgère Dugas and Émelie Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1851.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Albert in November 1852; Jérôme Alcé in September 1854; a child, age unrecorded, in late December 1858 but died at age 20 days in January 1859; Ambroise Émile, called Émile, born in April 1861; Anne in March 1862 but, called Sidonie, may have died at "age ca. 1 year" in March 1863; Joseph A. born in October 1863 but died at age 3 in September 1866; Marie Eve born in January 1866; Wilfrid Édouard, called Édouard, in October 1867; Pierre Victor in November 1869; ...  Émille became a school teacher after the War of 1861-65.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Siffrien's fifth son Siffrien, fils, by fourth wife Jeanette Melançon, married Athanaise, daughter of fellow Acadian Derosier Breaux and his Creole wife Madeleine Denoux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1860.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Siffrien Quentin in October 1860; Laurent Eugène in October 1861 but, called Laurent, died at age 6 in December 1867; Louis Alexandre born in March 1863 but, called Louis, died at age 3 in August 1866; Martin Ozémé born in November 1864; Simon Alcide in September 1866; Madeleine Alosia in August 1869; ... 

Simonet's third son Evariste married cousin Marie Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Melançon and Marguerite Élisabeth Orillion, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1828; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled near the boundary of Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Silvanie in July 1829 but, called Sylvanie, died at age 2 in September 1831; Marie Eudolie born in August 1832 but, called Marie Eugénie, may have died at age 20 in September 1852; Olivia Élisabeth baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1835; Corentin Joseph born in February 1837; Aulime, also called Trasimond Aulime, in May 1839 but, called Trasimond Olivier, died at age 2 1/2 in October 1841; Honorine Athanaise born in August 1841; Marie Aglaé, called Aglaé, in October 1843; Vincent Adonis, called Adonis, in September 1845; Elmire Palmire or Palmira, called Palmira, in January 1849; and Thersile Julienne in May 1852--10 children, four sons and six daughters, between 1829 and 1852.  Daughters Aglaé and Palmira married into the Breaux and Denoux families by 1870.  Two of Evariste's sons also married by then. 

Second son Corentin married Élise dite Lise, daughter of Joseph Delmaire Lavergne and his Acadian wife Eléonore Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1856.  They settled on the river near boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes before moving to the Gonzales area of Ascension Parish.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Corine in January 1862; Marie Cora near Gonzales in September 1865; Eléonore Cornelie in December 1869; ...

Evariste's fourth and youngest son Adonis married Juliette, daughter of Albert Poché and Malvine Lavergne, a Creole, not a fellow Acadian, at the Gonzales church in January 1866; Juliette's mother was the sister of Adonis's brother Corentin's father-in-law.  Adonis and Juliette's children, born near Gonzales, included Marie Alixe in September 1868[sic]; Albert Vincent in October 1868[sic, probably 1869]; ... 

Simonet's fourth son Maxile married double cousin Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Angèle Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1828; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph Duval, called Duval, in March 1829; Simonette or Simonet Osémy or Osémé, a son, in November 1830; Marie Adelina Domitille, called Marie Domitille, in July 1832; Maxile Comes in September 1833; Sabaosear, Sabat, or Sala Oscar, called S. Oscar and Oscar S., a son, in December 1834; Homer in March 1838; Raphaël Viléon in July 1839; Marie Eveline in August 1840; and Adelina Marguerite in July 1844--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1829 and 1844.  Daughter Marie Domitille married into the Marchand family by 1870.  Two of Maxile's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Duval married Françoise Adams probably in Ascension Parish in the early 1850s.  Daughter Marie Alixe was born there in August 1854 and did not marry by 1870. 

Maxile's fourth son S. Oscar married cousin Élène, Elina, Elisca, or Elvina Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Trasimond Babin and Clarisse Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1858; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Odile in October 1858; Magdalene E. in April 1860; Joachim Hercule in March 1862; Joseph Homerum near Gonzales in March 1864; ... 

Simonet's seventh son Valentin Jean married cousin Clothilde Eméranthe, called Eméranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Landry and Eliza Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1833; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Lise Apolline in January 1835; Valentin Privat or Privat Valentin in August 1837; Victoire Élisabeth in December 1839; and Félix Édouard in August 1842.  Valentin remarried to Marie Sérasine, Sarrazine, Sévarine, or Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marie Rose Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1846.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Jean Albert in February 1847; Marie Asimond in September 1848; Marie Pamela, called Pamela, in July 1850; Marie Elmira in September 1851; Adam in November 1852; Marguerite Dilia, called Dilia, in March 1854; Marie Tersilla in November 1856; Avite Isidora in June 1858; Marie Eugénie in March 1862; Colombe Dema near Gonzales in December 1863 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1865; Joseph Edgard born in November 1865; Louis Vincent in December 1867; ...  Daughters Pamela and Dilia, by both wives, married into the Breaux and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Valentin's sons also married by then.   

Oldest son Privat Valentin, by first wife Eméranthe Landry, married cousin Emelia or Ersilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Alzina Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1858.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Laurent Camille in May 1859; Jean Baptiste Silvère in October 1860; Odeam Hersila in September 1864; ... 

Valentin Jean's second son Félix Édouard, by first wife Eméranthe Landry, married double cousin Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Norbert Landry and Élisa Landry, at the Gonzales church in November 1866.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Louise Clothilde in December 1867; Éliza Octavie, called Octavie, in January 1870[sic]; Marie Lily, perhaps theirs in June 1870[sic]; ...

Amand's seventh son Landry married cousin Marie-Louise, called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Landry and Rose Dugas, at Ascension in April 1802.  By the mid-1820s, Landry moved his family down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their children, born on the river and the Lafourche, included Marie-Justine, called Justine, in September 1803; Édouard Landry in November 1805; Marguerite Céleste, called Céleste, in August 1808; Pierre Trasimond in May 1810; Hélène Mathilde in August 1812 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 16 1/2, in April 1829; Nicolas dit Colas or Colin born in November 1814; Casimir Sifrien in March 1817 but, called Casimir, died at age 18 in Ascension Parish in November 1835; Léonise or Léonie Apolline born in February 1819; and Élisabeth Telvina, Elvina, or Ethelvina, called Ethelvina, in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1825--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1803 and 1825.  Landry died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1827.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial called him Lanory and said he died "at age 47 yrs."  He was 44.  His succession inventory, naming his wife and his children, with some of their spouses--Pierre Trasymond, age 17; Hélène Mathilde, age 15; Collin, age 12; Casimir Syphrien, age 10; Léonice Apolline, age 8; Élizabeth Elvina, age 2; Maria Justine, then age 24, and her husband; Margurerite Céleste, age 19, and her husband; and Édouard, then age 22 and a year and a half married--was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in October.  Daughters Marie Justine, Céleste, Léonie Apolline, and Ethelvina married into the Denoux (also called Gaillard), Robichaux, LeBlanc, and Melançon families, and perhaps into the Landry family as well.  Three of Landry's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  Some of his children and grandchildren settled in Ascension Parish, perhaps on the upper bayou, while others remained farther down bayou in Lafourche Interior Parish. 

Oldest son Édouard Landry, at age 19, married double cousin Clotilde Hortense, called Hortense, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Jacques Landry and Marie Louise Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1825.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Honorine Coralie in December 1825; Marie Louise Amelina in April 1827 but died at age 2 1/2 (the recording priest said 3 1/2) in December 1829; Édouard, fils, also called Landry le jeune, born in March 1828; Mathilde Élisabeth in May 1829 but died at age 3 in May 1832; Nicolas Émile born in March 1831 but died at age 1 1/2 in July 1832; Jean Baptiste died a few days after his birth in February 1833; and Joseph Casemir born in July 1835 but, called Casimire, died in Ascension Parish at age 18 (the recording priest said 20) in June 1854--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1825 and 1835.  Remaining daughter Honorine Coralie married into the Juneau and Bernier families by 1870.  Édouard Landry's remaining son also married by then but, except perhaps for its blood, the family line may not have endured. 

Oldest son Édouard Landry, fils married Adveline or Advelina, daughter of Ambroise Grabert and Eléonore Hamiliton, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1851.  They settled in Ascension Parish, perhaps on the upper Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Aurelia in March 1852; and Édouard le jeune in April 1854.  Neither of Édouard Landry, fils's children married by 1870. 

Landry's second son Pierre Trasimond married Marie Estelle, called Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Mathurin Hébert and Élisabeth Madeleine Guillot, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1834.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Azéma in January 1835; Élisabeth F. in July 1836; Marie Louise, called Louise, in May 1839; Marie Lorenza Clara in August 1842; Marie Ofilia or Ophelia, called Ophelia, in February 1844; Elsilda Émelina in April 1845; Thasie Ursule in October 1847; Pierre, fils died at age 3 months in November 1850; Philomène Mathilde Amanda, called Mathilde, born in June 1852; and Pauline Gustine Donatild in June 1854--10 children, nine daughters and a son, between 1835 and 1854.  Daughters Louise, Ophelia, and Mathilde married into the Breaux, Landry, and Provost families by 1870, two of them on lower Bayou Teche.  Pierre's only son did not survive childhood, so, except for its blood, the family line did not endure.   

Landry's third son Nicolas dit Colas, also called Colin, married Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin and Rosalie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1834.  They settled not on the upper Lafourche but along the river.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Rosalie Lutetia, called Lutetia, in August 1835; Marius Nicolas in December 1838; Pierre Julien in August 1840 but died in September; Édouard Césaire born in August 1841 but died at age 2 in October 1843; Théodore Jean Baptiste born in the early 1840s; Marie Lise Carmel in July 1843; Cyrile or Cyrille Landry, called Landry le jeune, in August 1845; Césaire Trasimond, called Trasimond, in August 1847; a child, name and age unrecorded, died in October 1849; and Sandon Joseph Félix, called Félix S., born in October 1850--10 children, at least two daughters and seven sons, between 1835 and 1850.  Colas, called Colin by the recording priest, who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, died in Ascension Parish in September 1853, age 38.  Daughters Lutetia and Marie Lise married Landry cousins by 1870.  Nicolas dit Colin's remaining sons also married by then and, like their sisters, most married Landry cousins, including a first cousin. 

Oldest son Marius Nicolas married Eliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Lodoisca Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in March 1859.  Did they have anymore children? 

Nicolas dit Colin's fourth son Théodore Jean Baptiste married cousin Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Mélanie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

Nicolas dit Colin's fifth son Landry le jeune married cousin Marie Cécile, called Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Norbert Landry and Élise Landry, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in March 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Demas Colin was born near Gonzales in November 1868; ... 

Nicolas dit Colin's sixth son Trasimond married cousin Zélamie, daughter of fellow Acadians Apollinaire Landry and Élise Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry. 

Nicolas dit Colin's seventh and youngest son Sandon Joseph Félix, also called Félix S., married first cousin Ange Eugénie, also called Eugénie A., daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Landry and Ursule Gaudin, his uncle and aunt, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry (their mothers were Gaudin sisters).  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Éliza Octavie, perhaps theirs, was born near Gonzales in January 1870[sic]; Marie Lily, perhaps theirs, in June 1870[sic]; ... 

Amand's eighth son Pierre Maximilien, called Maximilien and Émilien, married cousin Julie Rosalie or Rose Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc, at Ascension in May 1804; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Onésime, called Azéline by the baptizing priest, in April 1805; Anauville or Merville Rosémond in July 1806 but, called Merville, died at age 18 in September 1825; Pierre Duval born in May 1808; Jérôme Léon, called Léon, in January 1810; twins, a son and a daughter, names unrecorded, in August 1811 but died at birth; Sifroi Henri born in July 1812; Julie Rosalie or Rose Julie in August 1814; Amand Prudent, called Prudent, in October 1816; Sifroi Victorin, called Victorin, in September 1818; twins Gotraud Théodule, called Théodule, and Rupert Detrean in March 1821, but Rupert died at age 5 months the following September; Julie Euphrosine born in May 1823; Pierre Sylvanie in November 1827; and Rose Julie in late September 1830--15 children, 11 sons and four daughters, including two sets of twins, between 1805 and 1830.  Wife Julie likely was the "Mrs. Émilien [Babin]" who died in Ascension Parish, no age or parents' names given, in October 1830.  If this was her, she would have been age 45 at the time of her passing, her death likely related to the birth of her fifteenth child a few weeks earlier.  Despite the size of his family, including many young children, Pierre Maximilien did not remarry.  He died in Ascension Parish in January 1837.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Maximilien was age 54 when he died.  He was 52.  Daughter Rose Julie, probably the younger one with the name, married into the Breaux family.  Six of Pierre Maximilien's sons also married on the river, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Onésime married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Landry and Marie-Madeleine Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1824.  Their son Pierre Onésime, called Onésime, fils, born posthumously in February 1826, died at age 10 months the following December.  Onésime died in Ascension Parish in July 1825, age 21.  Arthémise also died in December 1826, age 22, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  The family line did not endure. 

Maximilien's third son Pierre Duval married cousin Rosalie Euphrosine, called Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin and Rosalie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1830; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Pierre probably in 1830 but died, age unrecorded, in April 1831; Marie Rosalie Elvania born in June 1831; and Pierre Gustave in February 1835--three children, two sons and a daughter, between 1830 and 1835.  Pierre Duval died in Ascension Parish in December 1836, age 28.  Daughter Marie Elvania married a Richard cousin by 1870.  Pierre Duval's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Maximilien's fourth son Jérôme Léon, called Léon, married Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Landry and Jeanette Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1835.  Léon died in Ascension Parish in February 1836, age 26.  He probably fathered no children.  If so, his line of the family died with him. 

Maximilien's seventh son Amand Prudent, called Prudent, married Marguerite Célina, Sélima, Zéline, or Zélina, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Rivet and Marie Élisabeth Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1839.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Pierre dit Turiaffe in July 1840; Marguerite Olivai or Olivia, called Olivia, in August 1844; Marie Ofalia in July 1846; and Marie Célina in October 1848--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1840 and 1848.  Daughter Olivia married into the Boudreaux family by 1870.  One of Prudent's sons also married by then, after his distinguished war service, but the line did not endure. 

During the War of 1861-65, only son Turiaffe served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, an old militia company from Ascension Parish mustered into Confederate service in August 1861.  He was working as a clerk in Donaldsonville when he enlisted in the battery there in September 1861, age 21.  He followed his battery to Virginia, where it became a part of the Army of Northern Virginia, so he became one of R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Turiaffe played the violin, which endeared him to his fellow canoneers.  He was wounded in the calf at Gaines' Mill, Virginia, in June 1862 but soon returned to his unit.  He was still with the battery when it surrendered with the rest of Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April 1865.  Back home, Turiaffe married cousin Louise Lodoiska, daughter of fellow Acadians Aulime LeBlanc and Ethelvina Babin, at the Pointe Coupee church, Pointe Coupee Parish, in January 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled in Ascension Parish, where he worked as a farm overseer and  later owned a hack line and livery stable.  Later, he clerked and collected for a local steamship company, earning the sobriquet "Captain Babin."  He and Louise Lodoiska remained childless, but they raised several orphans.  He died in Ascension Parish in January 1918, age 77, was buried in his UCV camp's tomb in the Ascension Catholic cemetery in Donaldsonville, and was mourned by the entire community. 

Maximilien's eighth son Sifroi Victorin, called Victorin, married cousin Marie Laurenza, daughter of Jean Denoux, also called Gaillard, and his Acadian wife Justine Babin, at the Donaldsonville church in September 1839.  Their children, born in Ascensuon Parish, included Jean Baptiste Théodule in October 1840; and Julie Justine Etelvina in September 1844.  Victorin died in Ascension Parish in April 1846, age 27 (the recording priest said 28).  Neither of his children married by 1870. 

Maximilien's ninth son Gotraud Théodule, called Théodule, a twin, married double cousin Aureline Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Babin and his Creole wife Madeleine Denoux, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1843.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born on there, included Julie Ema in Ascension Parish in March 1844; Rémis or Rémi Prudent in October 1845; Marie Hermina in May 1847 but, called Marie E., died at age 4 1/2 in August 1851; Maxille Amadéo born in September 1848 but, called Amadéo, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 5) in July 1853; Marguerite Eulalie born in February 1853; Madeleine Ernestine in September 1854; Françoise Pamelia near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1856; and Lelia in November 1858--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1844 and 1858.  Théodule died near St. Gabriel in October 1859, age 38 (the recording priest said 37).  None of his children married by 1870. 

Amand's ninth and youngest son Louis married Anne Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Théodore Dugas and Marie Victoire Forest, at Ascension in May 1806.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Alexandre Louis in April 1807; twins Cyprien Sevin and Marie Justine in September 1808, but Cyprien Sevin died at age 11 in January 1820; Marguerite Delia or Dilia born in July 1810 but died at age 2 in August 1812; Rosémond Ambroise born in May 1812; Eugène Hubert or Ulgère Hubert, called Hubert, in March 1814; Marie Séraphine in March 1816; Pierre Casimir, called Casimir, in February 1818; Marie Marine in June 1821 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1822; Léon Laurent born in August 1823; Joseph Magloire in February 1826; Joseph Faustin in February 1830 but died the following April; and François Xavier born in late 1831 or early 1832 but died at age 18 months in June 1833--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, between 1807 and 1831/32.  Louis died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Louis died at "age 78 years."  He was 76.  Daughters Marie Justine and Marie Séraphine married into the Landry and Dugas families.  Like his father, Louis had many sons, but nearly half of them died young.  Five of them married.  Most remained on the upper Lafourche near the Ascension/Assumption line. 

Oldest son Alexandre Louis married cousin Henriette Phelonise, called Phelonise or Felonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Marguerite Pélagie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1827; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They, too, lived near the boundary of Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marie Élise, called Eliza, in October 1829; Marie Séraphine in March 1831 but died the following November; Joseph Villiot born in March 1833 but, called Vileor, died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, age 22, in September 1855; Jean Osémé, called Osémé, born in February 1835; Marie Aurore, called Aurora, in Februarh 1838; Joseph Thelesphore or Telesphore, called Telesphore, in June 1840; and Joseph Achille, called Achille, in January 1843.  Wife Henriette Phelonise died near Paincourtville in September 1853.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she died at "age 50 years."  Was she a victim of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall?  At age 48, Alexandre remarried to Marie Pouponne, called Pouponne, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier LeBlanc and Madeleine Breaux, at the Paincourtville church in January 1856.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Madeleine Alexandrine in January 1857; Louis Alexandre in March 1859; Marie Emmée in September 1860; Paul Amard in January 1863; ...  Daughters Eliza and Aurora, by his first wife, married into the LeBlanc family by 1870.  Three of Louis's sons also married by then. 

Second son Osémé, by first wife Phelonise Babin, married Oside or Ozite, daughter of fellow Acadians Hubert Landry and Victorine LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church in January 1861.  Their child, name unrecorded, died a newborn near Paincourtville in November 1861.  Osémé remarried to first cousin Laurenza, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Landry and Justine Babin and widow of Clovis Dugas, his uncle and aunt, at the Paincourtville church in January 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. 

Alexandre's third son Telesphore, by first wife Phelonise Babin, married Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Hermogène LeBlanc and Marie Melançon, at the Paincourtville church in January 1867.  They lived in St. James Parish on the river before returning to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Adine in St. James Parish in October 1867; Marie Eugénie near Paincourtville in March 1870; ...

Alexandre Louis's fourth son Achille, by first wife Phelonise Babin, married cousin Noémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Landry and Justine Guédry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Joseph Félix in September 1867; Joseph Hippolyte in February 1870; ...

Louis's fourth son Hubert married cousin Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, another daughter of Paul Babin and Marguerite Pélagie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1831.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Joseph François Xavier in December 1831; Marie Azéma in July 1833 but, called Azéma, died at age 16 in July 1849; Marie Célima born in September 1835 but, called Célima, died at age 20 in August 1855; Joseph Numa, called Numa, born in February 1838; Joseph Aristide, called Aristide, in March 1840; Joseph Félix in March 1842; Édouard Joseph died 7 days (the recording priest said 4 days) after his birth in February 1844; and Joseph Artur born in November 1845--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1831 and 1845.  Hubert, called Ulger Hubert, died in Ascension Parish in December 1847, age 33 (the recording priest said 32).  Neither of his daughters married, but two of his sons did.  One of them died in Confederate service after he married, and his family line evidently did not endure. 

Second son Joseph Numa, called Numa, married cousin Elmire Zoé, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Bujole and Lisa Elmire Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Marie Eugénie was born in Ascension Parish in September 1861.  Numa, at age 24, while residing at Donaldsonville, enlisted in Company K of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Ascension Parish, in March 1862 and joined his unit in Virginia, where he became one of General R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Numa was present with his unit to late September, when he was reported as absent without leave, but he likely was in one of the Richmond hospitals recovering from illness.  He returned to his unit in November and was present through February.  Now age 25, Numa was mortally wounded in action near Fredericksburg, on 4 May 1863, during the Chancellorsville campaign, and died the following day.  He probably was buried on the battlefield. 

Hubert's third son Aristide married Hortence, daughter of Prussian Immigrant Jean Paulin Schomer and his Acadian wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1865.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Aristide Bruno  in June 1866; Lora Antonia in May 1870; ... 

Louis's fifth son Pierre Casimir, called Casimir, married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marie Boudreaux and Anne dite Nanette Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1842.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Édouard Joseph Casimir in March 1843; Joseph Théodule in June 1844 but died a few weeks later; Marie Thérèse born in May 1846; Priscille Amelina, called Amelina, in July 1848; Marie Louise in April 1850 but died at age 3 1/2 in September 1853; and Louis Léonce born in April 1852--six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1843 and 1852.  Casimir died in Ascension Parish in April 1853.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Casimire, as he called him, died at "age 30 years."  Pierre Casimir would have been age 35.  Daughters Amelina married into the Rougeau and Babin families by 1870.  Neither of Casimir's remaining sons married by then. 

Louis's sixth son Léon Laurent married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry LeBlanc and Hortense Landry and widow of Jean Paulin Schomer, at the Paincourtville church in May 1850; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes before settling on the river.  Their children, born there, included Marie Evela near Paincourtville in March 1851; Léon Boniface in June 1853; Louis Jean Baptiste in Ascension Parish in December 1854; Alice in July 1857; Rosalie Léonie in September 1859; Joseph Hector near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1861; Marie Élisabeth in January 1866; ...  None of Léon's children married by 1870. 

Louis's seventh son Joseph Magloire married cousin Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gautreaux and Henrietta Landry and widow of Joseph LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. 

Vincent-Ephrèm (c1745-1810) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Vincent-Ephrèm, called Ephrèm, third and youngest son of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1745, followed his family to Maryland and came to Louisiana with two siblings in 1766.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Ephrèm married fellow Acadian Marguerite LeBlanc in c1767.  A decade later, Ephrèm and Marguerite were living on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the river, included Paul-Dominique baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1770 but may have died in Iberville Parish, age 45, in April 1815; Petronille-Victoire, called Victoire, born in May 1774; Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, baptized, age unrecorded, in April 1777; Joseph-Alexandre born at Ascension in March 1779 but may have died in Ascension Parish in March 1838 at age 59 (the recording priest, who called the deceased Joseph Ephrèm, said 61); Simon born in December 1781 but may have died in Ascension Parish, age 22, in March 1804; and Marine born in c1785 but died at age 14 in July 1799--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1770 and 1785.  Ephrèm contracted smallpox at Ascension in October 1787 but survived.  He died in Ascension Parish in September 1810, age 67.  Daughter Victoire married into the Landry family.  One of Ephrèm's sons married, but, other than its blood, even that family line may not have endured. 

Second son Jacques married Marie Françoise, called Françoise and also Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Hyacinthe Landry and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Ascension in November 1796.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite-Madeleine in the late 1790s; Joseph-Ephrèm in July 1799 but died at age 2 in December 1801; Céline born in May 1801 but died at age 1 in June 1802; Ameline born in July 1803; Eurasie in February 1804 but died at age 4 1/2 in August 1808; Rosalie born in c1805 but died at age 4 in September 1809; Marie Eugénie born in August 1809; Leufroi Ephrem in August 1811; Honoré in August 1813; and Sylvestre in January 1816 but died at age 7 in February 1823--10 children, six daughters and four sons, from the late 1790s to 1816.  Jacques died in Ascension Parish in March 1816, age 38, a widower, so his wife may have died from complications of childbirth a few weeks earlier, when their youngest son was born.  Daughter Marguerite Madeleine married into the Bujole and LeBlanc families.  One wonders if either of his remaining two sons married.  Except for its blood, this family line may not have endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph, fils (c1745-?) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Joseph, fils, elder son of Joseph Babin and Anne Thériot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1745, followed his family to Maryland and came to Louisiana in 1766 with his widowed mother and two siblings.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Joseph, fils married fellow Acadian Marie Landry in February 1768.  In August 1770, they were living on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension upriver from Cabahannocer.  By January 1777, they had crossed the river to the right, or west, bank at Cabahannocer and probably lived near the boundary between that district and Ascension.  Their children, born on the river, included Élisabeth or Isabelle baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1771; Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, born in March 1773; Jean-Louis, called Louis, in November 1775 but died at age 21 in July 1796; Joseph, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1777; Auguste or Augustin born in November 1778; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in March 1780; Julienne in July 1781; and Louise in February 1784--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1771 and 1784.  At age 52, Joseph, fils remarried to Anne-Apolline, 59-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Doiron and Marguerite Michel and widow of Jean-Baptiste Chênet dit La Garenne, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1797.  Anne, also a native of Pigiguit, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  She gave him no more children.  Daughters Isabelle, Marguerite, and Marie Madeleine, by his first wife, married into the Robichaux, Bourgeois, Roger, and Gautreaux families.  One of Joseph, fils's sons married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  

Third and youngest son Auguste or Augustin, by first wife Marie Landry, married Marianne or Anne Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bergeron and Marie Foret of Ascension, at Assumption in May 1800.  They settled there and in what became Lafourche Interior Parish, although they may have lived for a time at New Orleans.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and the river, included Alexis-Charles in July 1802; Marguerite Modeste in November 1806; Jean Auguste or Augustin, called Justin and Augustin, in December 1809; Onésime, called Olésime, Lésime, and Clézime, in May 1816; François Omer or Homer, also called François Bernard and perhaps Françoise[sic] Lemaire, in May 1821; Louise Adèle in June 1824; and Marianne in December 1828--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1802 and 1828.  Daughters Louise Adèle and Marguerite Modeste married into the Hébert and Picou families.  Three of Auguste's sons also married.  Some of his grandsons settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Second son Jean Auguste or Augustin dit Justin, married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Honoré Breaux, fils and Marie Félicité Richard, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1827.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Eugène Marcellin in June 1831; Marie Marguerite in October 1835; Joseph Armogène or Hermogène, called Hermogène, in November 1839; and Ozémé Florantin in August 1843--four children, three sons and a daughter, between 1831 and 1843.   In March 1870, Augustin, as the parish clerk called him, donated land to three of his married children--Marie Marguerite and her husband, Eugène Marcellin, and Joseph Hermogène; the donation record also indentified Augustin's wife.  Daughter Marie Marguerite married into the Robson and Daigle families by 1870.  Two of Justin's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Eugène married,  at age 22, cousin Adèle Eulalie, 29-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Olivier Hébert and Félicité Breaux, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1854.  Their children, born on the southeastern bayous, included Eugénie Marie in Lafourche Parish in November 1854; Rosalia Virginia in November 1856; Joseph Augustin near Montegut at the edge of the Terrebonne coastal marshes in August 1867; ...  None of Eugène's children married by 1870. 

Jean Auguste's second son Hermogène married Marie, daughter of Isidore Dupré and his Acadian wife Théotiste LeBlanc of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1860.  They settled on the middle Lafourche before moving to Montegut.  Their children, born there, included Marie Malvina in September 1861; Paulin Ozémé in July 1865; François Valéry Élie in April 1868; Joseph Arthur in November 1870; ...

Auguste's third son Onésime or Olésime was living in Terrebonne Parish when he married Pauline, daughter of François Malbrough and his Acadian wife Madeleine Duhon, at the Thibodaux church in January 1842.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Elvire or Elvira Rosea in March 1844; Émile Omer in March 1845; Henry, also called Frank Henry, in March 1847; Clinton Vega in June 1849; Julienne Marie or Marie Julienne in October 1851; Joseph Ignace in August 1854; and Auguste Washington in September 1855--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1844 and 1855.  Why was Onésime, called Olézime, counted by the federal census taker in Terrebonne Parish in November 1850 with older brother Augustin's family but without his own wife and children?  Where were they?  The census taker noted that Olézime owned $300 in real estate, that brother Augustin owned $400 worth of real estate and was a farmer, but the census taker listed no occupation for Olézime).  Daughters Elvira and Marie Julienne married into the Lirette and Robichaux families by 1870.  One of Olésime sons also married by then. 

Second son Frank Henry married Théolene, daughter of Émile Fangui or Fanguy and Uranie Chauvin, at the Houma church in September 1870. ...

Auguste's fourth and youngest son François Homer, called Homer, Omer, and L'Omer, married Estelle Anne or Anne Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Florentin Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marianne Durocher, at the Thibodaux church in June 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Camilla Eve in February 1841; Joseph Numa in January 1843; and Marianne Émelie in December 1844.  François Homer remarried to Eve, 17-year-old daughter of Pierre Bertin Roussel and Marie Madeleine Alexandre, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1848.  Their son Félicien Léon was born on Bayou Black in June 1849.  François Homer remarried again--his third marriage--to Ursule Malbrough, widow of Francis Darce, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1856.  François Homer, called F. Omer by the recording parish clerk and F. O. by the recording priest, remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Victorine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Navarre and his Acadian wife Mélicère Guillot and widow of Ulysses Toups, at the Montegut church in March 1867.  Their children, born near Montegut, included Augustin in December 1867; Joseph in December 1869; ...  Daughters Camilla Eve and Marianne, by his first wife, married into the Chauvin and Duplantis families by 1870.  None of François Homer's sons married by then. 

Jean-Jacques (c1748-1780s?) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, younger son of Joseph Babin and Anne Thériot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1748, followed his family to Maryland and came to Louisiana in 1766 with his widowed mother and two siblings.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Jacques married Marguerite, daughter most likely of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abrahm Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan of Pigiguit, in c1771.  (If his wife was that Marguerite Landry, she also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.)  Later in the decade, Jacques and Marguerite were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer near the boundary with Ascension district.  Their children, born on the river, included Pélagie in c1772; Donat baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1773; Paul baptized, age unrecorded, in September 1776 but may have died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 39, in April 1816; Éloi or D'Artoise, also called Eusèbe, born in December 1778; Marie-Céleste or -Célestine, called Célestine, in June 1781; Jacques-Alexandre in December 1783; and Pligio in c1787, perhaps posthumously, but died at age 9 in November 1797--seven children, two daughters and five sons, between 1772 and 1797.  Jacques evidently died by May 1787, when his wife remarried to a Savoie at Cabahannocer.  Daughters Pélagie and Célestine married into the Richard and Boudreaux families, and one of them settled in St. Martin Parish, west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Two of Jacques's sons also married.  The older one remained in Ascension Parish, where his line of the family, except for its blood, died out early.  The younger one settled on Bayou Lafourche, where his family line thrived. 

Third son Eusèbe dit D'Artoise married cousin Anne Francoise, called Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Françoise Blanchard, at Ascension in June 1805; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Rose in November 1805; Marie Éméranthe in May 1807 but died at age 5 1/2 in October 1812; Françoise Azélie born in July 1808; Eusèbe Rosémond in December 1809 but died at age 11 months in October 1810; Anne Arthémise, called Arthémise, born in January 1812; and Marie Ondine or Odile, called Odile, in October 1817--six children, five daughters and a son, between 1805 and 1817.  Daughters Arthémise and Odile married into the Lambert, Breaux, and Blanchard families.  Eusèbe's only son died young, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure.  

Jacques's fourth son Jacques Alexandre married Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melançon and Osite LeBlanc, at St. James in November 1804.  They settled on the river and on Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Ursin, also called Justin, at St. James in September 1805; Jean Jacques le jeune, called Jacques or Jacquin, at Ascension in November 1806; Joseph Oleus in May 1808; Paul Onésime, called Onésime and Lésime, in January 1810; Jacques Eugène, called Eugène, in November 1811; Marie Osite, called Osite, in August 1813; Jacques Alexandre, fils in March 1816; Marie Marguerite near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1818 but died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 15, in November 1833; Louis David, called David, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1821; and twins Marcélite or Marcéline and Julienne in December 1828, but Julienne died at age 11 1/2 in September 1840--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1805 and 1828.  As the birth of his youngest son shows, by the early 1820s, Jacques had moved his family to Bayou Lafourche.  Jacques died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1849, age 65 (the recording priest said 66).  A petition for his succession inventory, naming his wife and listing his children, including the spouse of one of his daughters--Ursin, Jean Jacquin, Onézime, Osite and her husband, David, Marcéline, and Eugène--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in July.  Daughters Osite and Marcéline married into the Bourgeois and Part families.  Five of Jacques Alexandre's sons also married and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish. 

Oldest son Ursin, also called Justin, married cousin Marcelline, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourgeois and Marguerite Babin, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1826.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Ursior or Ursin Orelien or Aurelien, called Aurelien, in January 1826; Joseph Rémy or Rémi in August 1828 but, called Rémi, died at age 26 in July 1855; Jean Onésime, called Onésime and Olézime, born in August 1830; Jacques Justin in August 1833 but died at age 3 1/2 in January 1837; Marguerite Ucelimme or Ursuline born in April 1835; Julienne Osilia or Azélia, called Azélia, in September 1837; Marcellin Maximin probably in the late 1830s or early 1840s; Marie or Marcelite Mathilde, called Mathilde, in March 1842; Aureline Crexeuse in June 1844 but, called Cresence, died at age 2 1/2 in February 1847; Omer Magloire born in January 1847; Eugène le jeune died six days after his birth in November 1849; Trasimond Adam born in December 1850; and Louis Ernest in August 1852--13 children, nine sons and four daughters, between 1826 and 1852.  Daughters Marguerite Ursuline, Azélia, and Marcelite Mathilde married into the Guillot and Breaux families by 1870.  Four of Ursin's sons also married by then, three of them to sisters, and remained on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Ursin Aurelien, called Aurelien, married Marie Anaïs, called Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Breaux and Clémentine Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in February 1848.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Camelia in c1848 but died at age 7 in 1855; Ursin Léo born in June 1850; Marie Héloise or Loisa, called Loisa, in October 1851; Marguerite Louise in April 1854; Marie Mathilde in March 1856; Clémentine Cécilia in October 1861; Madeleine Marcelline in July 1865; ...  Daughter Loisa married a Breaux cousin by 1870.  Ursin Aurelien's son, though older, did not marry by then. 

Ursin's third son Jean Onésime or Olézime married Marie Estelle, called Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guillot and Hortense Pélagie Richard, at the Thibodaux church in January 1852.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Stelina in March 1854; Marie Estelle in July 1855; Marie Emma in August 1857; Marie Odilia in July 1860; Joseph Onésime, fils in September 1865; Françoise Marceline in March 1867; ...  None of Jean Onésime's children married by 1870. 

Ursin's fifth son Marcellin Maximin married Angéline, Engéline, or Angelina, another daughter of Paul Breaux and Clémentine Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in January 1866.  Their children, born in Lafourche Parish, included Marie Louisianne in November 1866; Joseph Philippe in February 1868; ...

Ursin's sixth son Omer married Odilia, yet another daughter of Paul Breaux and Clémentine Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church in April 1869.  Daughter Marie Odilia was born in Lafourche Parish in August 1870; ...

Jacques Alexandre's second son Jean Jacques dit Jacquin, married Anne Séraphine, called Séraphine, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marie Boudreaux and Anne Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church in September 1827.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Séraphine Eugénie, called Eugénie, in January 1831 but died the following November; Jérôme Adam, called Adam, born in January 1834; Joseph Augustave in May 1836; Jean Baptiste Laurenza or Laurence, called Laurence and Lawrence, in September 1838; Marie or Mary Eve in January 1841; Eugène Delphine, called Delphin, in November 1845; Joséphine in November 1849; and Jean Jacques, fils near Lockport on the lower Lafourche in October 1853--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1831 and 1853.  Daughters Mary and Joséphine married into the Gautreaux and Badeaux families by 1870.  Four of Jean Jacques le jeune's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Adam married Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Ursin Savoie, fils and his Creole wife Azélie Matherne, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in November 1860.  Did they have any children? 

Jacquin's second son Joseph Augustave married Roséma, daughter of fellow Acadian Trasimond Trahan and his Creole wife Virginie Carmouche, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1860.  Did they have any children? 

Jacquin's third son Laurence married Mathilde, daughter of William Wilton and Marcelline Guitreau, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in September 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church in June 1863.  Their children, born on the lower Lafourche, included Marie Alice in September 1861 near Raceland; Emmy Léonie near Lockport in November 1864; Louis Lawrence in August 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Laurence served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia and, along with most of his unit, was captured at Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish in late October 1862.  The Federals released him in early November, and he returned to his family. 

Jacquin's fourth son Delphin married cousin Eliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Boudreaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Lockport church in February 1867.  Their children, born near Lockport, included Célestine Phonie in January 1868; Séverine in July 1869; ...

Jacques Alexandre's fourth son Paul Onésime, called Onésime and Lésime, married Mélasie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Donat Landry and his Creole wife Geneviève Stieven, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1829.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Paul Onésime, fils in September 1830; Marie Mélasie in February 1833 but, called Mélasie, died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, age 22 (the recording priest said 23), in July 1855; Jacques Donat, called Donat, born in January 1836; Félix Julien in January 1839; Marie Euphrosie or Euphrasie, called Euphrasie, in January 1842; Pierre Eufrosin or Euphrosin, called Froisin, in June 1844; and Marie E., probably Émilie, in April 1847--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1830 and 1847.  Daughters Euphrasie and Émilie married into the Robichaux and Bourgeois families by 1870.  Paul Onésime's sons also married by then and settled on the lower Lafourche. 

Oldest son Paul Onésime, fils married Eugénie, daughter of Edmond Bourgeois, not a fellow Acadian, and Adèle Baudoin, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1856; one of Paul Onésime's sisters married Eugénie's brother.  Paul Onésime, fils and Eugénie's children, born near Raceland, included Paul III in February 1857; Marie Émelia in September 1858 but, called Émelie, died at age 5 months the following February; Félix le jeune born in January 1861; Joseph Apollinaire in April 1863; Félicie in September 1865; Marie Victoria in December 1867; Pierre Alix in February 1870; ... 

Onésime's second son Donat married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Furcy Theriot and his Creole wife Marie Autin, at the Raceland church in May 1857.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Armentine in July 1858 but, called Armantine, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in March 1860; Félicie born in November 1860; Marie Félicie in April 1863; Justinien in November 1865; ... 

Onésime's third son Félix married Céleste, another daughter of Furcy Theriot and Marie Autin, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1869.  Their son Louis Félix was born near Raceland in March 1870; ...

Onésime's fourth and youngest son Froisin married Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Rosémond Usé and his Creole wife Geneviève Maigret, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1867.

Jacques Alexandre's fifth son Jacques Eugène, called Eugène, married Adèle, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Broussard and his Creole wife Anne Stieven, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1832.  Their children, born on the bayou, included Eugénie in January 1834; Eugène Charles in March 1836; Marguerite Adela or Adèle, called Adèle, in December 1838; Joseph Adla or Adélard, called Adélard, in April 1841 but, called Adélard, died at age 8 (the recording priest said 9) in June 1849, four days after his father died; and Pierre Octave, called Octave, born in January 1844--five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1834 and 1844.  Eugène, père died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1849, age 37, a widower. "Letters of tutorship" for his children--Eugénie, Eugène, Adèle, and Octave--were filed at the Thibodaux courthouse three weeks after his death.  Daughters Eugénie and Marguerite Adela married into the James and Legendre families by 1870.  Neither of Eugène's remaining sons married by then. 

Jacques Alexandre's seventh and youngest son Louis David, called David, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marguerite Roger, at the Thibodaux church in April 1847.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Louis in July 1848; David Cléophas died at age 2 months in March 1850; Marie Louisiane, called Louisiane, born in August 1851; Marguerite Augustine in January 1853; and Joseph David born posthumously near Lockport in November 1854--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1848 and 1854.  David, père died in Lafourche Parish in October 1854, age 33.  A petition for tutorship of his children, naming his wife and remaining children--Louis, Louisiane, Marguerite, and Joseph--was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following February.  One of David's sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Louis married Agnès, also called Eme, daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Boudreaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Lockport church in December 1869.

Joseph (c1748-1809) à Jean à Antoine Babin

Joseph, son of Jean-Baptiste Babin and Ursule Landry, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and his widowed mother and three sisters to Louisiana in 1766.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Joseph married Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine-Marie-Josèphe Forest, in January 1771.  Osite also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  By April 1777, she and Joseph were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension above Cabahannocer.  Their children, born on the river, included Rosalie in c1772; Marie-Madeleine in June 1773 but may have died in Ascension Parish, age 66 (the recording priest said 72), in October 1839; Joseph-Ephrèm born in November 1774; Paul in March 1776; Jean- or Joseph-Charles, called Charles, in c1777; Pierre-Delage, called Delage, in April 1779 but died at age 6 in August 1785; Marguerite born in July 1780; Adélaïde in September 1783; Henriette in January 1785; Simon-Joseph baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1787; another Adélaïde born in July 1789; Anne-Élise or -Lise in February 1790; Claude-Raphaël in September 1793; Valéry-Damase in December 1796 but died at his brother Paul's home in Ascension Parish, age 28, in March 1824; Claire born in July 1798; and Marie-Justine in September 1802--16 children, nine daughters and seven sons, between 1772 and 1802.  Joseph died in Ascension Parish in March 1809.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 66 when he died.  He was closer to 61.  Daughters Rosalie, Marguerite, Henriette, Adélaïde, and Anne-Lise married into the LeBlanc, Boudreaux, Landry, and Babin families, two of them twice.  Five of Joseph's sons married and settled in Ascension Parish, but some of his grandsons moved upriver into Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes.  

Oldest son Joseph-Ephrèm married cousin Anne Marie or Marine, called Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Hébert and Marie LeBlanc, at San Gabriel upriver from Ascension in April 1797.  Their children, born on the river, included an unnamed son died age eight days after his birth in February 1799; Marianne- or Marie-Clémence born in February 1800; Alain-Joseph or Joseph-Alain, also called Joseph Élien or Élieu, in August 1802; Gertrude in December 1804; Hortense in June 1807 but died at age 13 (the recording priest said age 6 and did not give the mother's name) in October 1820; Rosaline born in November 1809; Mathilde in December 1811; Trasimond Ephrème in December 1813; Liboire Apollinaire in June in 1816 but, called Apollinair, died at age 2 in June 1818; Léonarda or Eléonore born in June 1819; and Mathilde, the second with the name, or perhaps Hortense, the second with the name, in May 1821--11 children, four sons and seven daughters, between 1799 and 1821.  Joseph Ephrèm died in Ascension Parish in March 1838.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph was age 61 when he died.  He was 63.  Daughters Marie Clémence, Mathilde, Eléonore, and Hortense married into the Lopez, Doiron, Dupuy, and Hébert families.  Joseph Ephrème's two remaining sons also married and settled farther upriver in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Second son Alain Joseph or Joseph Alain, also called Joseph Élien or Élieu, married Rosalie Amelie or Amelie Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Daigre and Marie Josèphe Henry, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1824.  They settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Domitille in November 1825; Joseph Arnesse or Arsène, also called Philogène and Philosine, in July 1827; Ernest Daigre in April 1828 but died at age 23 in April 1851; Philogènes Alisse, a daughter, born in February 1831; Émelie Athalie or Nathalie, called Nathalie, in Novemer 1833; and Adélard in the 1830s--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1825 and the 1830s.  Alain, called Élien by the recording priest, who gave no parents' names nor mentioned a wife, died near Brusly in June 1855, age 52.  Daughters Domitille and Nathalie married into the Allen and Hébert families by 1870.  Two of Alain's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Philogène married Arthémise Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Longuépée and Constance Comeaux, at the Brusly church in April 1852.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Aurelia in February 1853; Jean died two days after his birth in June 1854; Baziline Célina born in November 1855; Joseph Adonis in June 1860; ...  None of Philogène's children married by 1870. 

Alain's third and youngest son Adélard married first cousin Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Templet and Hortense Babin, at the Brusly church in September 1864; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Daughter Anna was born near Baton Rouge in March 1868; ...

Joseph Ephrèm's third son Trasimond Ephrème, while living in West Baton Rouge Parish, married Julienne, daughter of Pierre Clément and his Acadian wife Marie-Madeleine Legendre of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in August 1845.  They settled across the river near Brusly.  Their children, born there, included Trasimond Arthur or Arthur Trasimond in May 1846; Joseph Arnileas in December 1847; Jean Ephrème in November 1849; Pierre Magloire in October 1851; Étienne David in December 1853; Arcade Thélésphore in January 1856 but died the following August; Marie Joséphine born in June 1857; Marie Olivia in June 1859; Marie Eugénie in March 1861; ...  None of Trasimond Ephrèm's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Arthur Trasimond married Augustine or Anne Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie Hyacinthe Lejeune and his Creole wife Eléonore Aillet, at the Brusly church in January 1867.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Marie Léonie in April 1868; Marie Regina in March 1870; ...

Joseph's second son Paul married cousin Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marie Babin, at Ascension in September 1797.  Their children, born there, included Claire-Batilde in the late 1790s or early 1800s; Honorine, also called Justine, in January 1805 but died at age 21 in February 1826; Anne Valerine or Valerante born in July 1806; Simon Leufroi, called Leufroi, in August 1808; a daughter, name unrecorded, in October 1810 but died two months later; Clothilde Euphrosine born in September 1811; Hippolyte Adolphe, called Adolphe, in December 1813; and Raphaël Valéry, called Valéry, in September 1816--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between the late 1790s and 1816.  Paul died in Ascension Parish in July 1835, age 59.  The recording priest, probably parish curé Father Hercule Brassac, who did not mention a wife or give any parents' names, only the decedent's given name, said Paul died at "age ca. 60."  Daughters Claire Batilde, Anne Valerante, and Clothilde Euphrosine married into the Landry, Dupuis, and Denoux, also called Gaillard, families.  All of Paul's sons married, but only one of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Simon Leufroi, called Leufroi, married cousin Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bénoni Babin and Marguerite Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1834.  A "procuration" filed for Rosalie at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1843, says that "Leufroy died in Ascension Parish" but gives no date of his death, and lists her heirs as her siblings, so she and Leufroi may have had no children, or at least none who survived childhood.  Evidently Rosalie joined her siblings in Terrebonne Parish after Leufroi died, either in the late 1830s or early 1840s. 

Paul's second son Hippolyte Adolphe, called Adolphe, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Rivet and Élisabeth Melançon and stepdaughter of Nicolas Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in August 1836.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite Utecia or Uteria, called Utecia and Marguerita Luthecia, in July 1837; Hippolyte Germain born in July 1839; Sandon in October 1842; Lucain or Lucian Gerent in October 1844; Christine Félicea in September 1847; Philomène Eliska in August 1849; Marie Julie in May 1852; and Élisabeth Valentine in March 1854--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1837 and 1854.  Daughter Marguerite Utecia married into the Favre family by 1870.  None of Adolphe's sons married by then. 

Paul's third and youngest son Valéry married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Poirier and Caroline Mire, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1844. Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Azéma in February 1847; and Geneviève Olive or Olivia, called Olivia, in January 1850.  Valéry, called Valaire by the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, may have died in Ascension Parish in August 1858.  If so, he would have been age 41 at the time of his passing (the recording priest said 40).  Daughter Olivia married into the Dugas family by 1870.  Valéry's line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him. 

Joseph's third son Charles married cousin Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and probably his first wife Marie-Rose Melançon, at Ascension in c1796.  Their children, born there, included Marguerite-Modeste in November 1797; Joseph Valéry, called Valéry and Valère, in March 1799; Joseph-Hubert in November 1800; Aureline in c1804 but died at age 4 1/2 in September 1808; Charles, fils born in February 1809 but died at age 20 months in October 1810; and Isaac Colin born in June 1811 but died at age 1 in December 1812.  In his mid-40s, Charles remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Frenchman Pierre Denoux, also called Gaillard, and his Creole wife Marie Lagrange of Ascension, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1822.  Daughter Aureline Euphémie was born posthumously in Assumption Parish in September 1823--seven children, three daughters and four sons, by two wives, between 1797 and 1823.  Charles died probably in Assumption Parish by February 1827, in his late 40s or early 50s, when his wife remarried there.  Daughter Aureline, by his second wife, married a Babin cousin.  One of his remaining sons also married.  

Oldest Joseph Valéry, called Valéry, from first wife Françoise LeBlanc, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Orillion and Marie Rose Breaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1819.  They settled on the river near the boundary of Iberville and Ascension parishes and also on the upper Lafourche. Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in October 1820; Marie Françoise born in August 1822; and Valéry, fils died a month after his birth in January 1828.  Joseph Valéry remarried to Andrea, daughter of Joseph Corbo and Marie Barrienta, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1829.  They settled near the boundary of Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Ovide or Ovid in September 1830 but, called Joseph, died at age 14 1/2 in February 1845; Charles Antoine or Antoine Charles born in July 1832; Léonise or Louise Carmélite in March 1834; and Therence or Terence in September 1837--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by two wives, between 1820 and 1837.  Joseph Valéry, called Valère, died in Ascension Parish in October 1847, age 48.  Daughters Marie Françoise and Louise Carmélite, by both wives, married into the Leroy and Gomez families by 1870.  One of Valéry's remaining sons also married by then. 

Fourth son Antoine Charles, by second wife Andrea Corbo, married Carmélite Diez probably in Ascension Parish in the late 1850s.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Grégoria Anastasia in November 1858; Joseph Antoine in January 1861; Carmélite Léonise in January 1866 but, called Carmélite, died at age 1 1/2 in September 1867; Marguerite Angéline born in February 1868; ...

Joseph's fifth son Simon Joseph married Sidalise Marguerite or Marguerite Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Landry and Angèle LeBlanc of Ascension, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1814.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Honoré in March 1815; Anselme in April 1817; Désiré in May 1819; Marguerite Azélie in January 1828; Joseph Leufroi in July 1830; Simon Valsein or Valsin in May 1832; and Eléonore in c1839 but died at age 2 in July 1841--seven children,five sons and two daughters, between 1815 and 1839.  Neither of Simon Joseph's daughters married by 1870, if they married at all, but two of his sons did.  Not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Honoré married cousin Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marine Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1838.  Their daughter Marie Eléonore was born in Ascension Parish in July 1839.  Honoré died in Ascension Parish in March 1840.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not mention a wife or give any parents' names, said that Honoré was age 26 when he died.  He was 25.  His daughter did not marry by 1870, and he fathered no sons.  One wonders if at least the blood of his line endured.   

Simon Joseph's fifth and youngest son Simon Valsin married Martha Laurenda Wallis, place and date unrecorded.  Their son William Honoré was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in January 1866; ... 

Joseph's sixth son Claude Raphaël married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Angèle Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in August 1819.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included a daughter, name unrecorded, died at age 3 1/2 months in September 1820; Michel Raphaël or Raphaël Michel born in September 1821; Denis Dosile, called Dosile or Dozilia, in October 1823; and Varis Théodule in February 1826--four children, a daughter and three sons, between 1820 and 1826.  Claude Raphaël died in Ascension Parish in July 1828, age 34.  Two of his sons married by 1870. 

Oldest son Michel Raphaël or Raphaël Michel married cousin Alzire Apolline dite Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Corentin LeBlanc and Phelonise Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1844.  Their children, born in the river, included Auphelia or Ophelia near St. Gabriel in November 1845; and Michel Dosilia in Acension Parish in December 1847 but, called Michel Damas, died there the following April.  Michel Raphaël remarried to Marie Tarsile, called Tarsile, daughter of Antoine Léon Duplessis and his Acadian wife Céleste Dupuis, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1853.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Maxine Cora in May 1854; Marcelus Malcour in December 1855; Guillemine Tersilia in January 1857; Marie Cécilia in November 1858; Rigobert Nelville in January 1861; Bertin Raphaël in September 1862; Joséphine Elmira in August 1864; Relique Sylvère near Gonzales in June 1866; Victorine Aurela in July 1868; ...  Daughter Ophelia, by his first wife, married into the Breaux family by 1870.  None of Michel Raphaël's sons married by then. 

Claude Raphaël's second son Denis Dosile, called Dosile or Dozilia, at age 42, married Malvina, daughter of Joseph Delmaire Lavergne and his Acadian wife Eléonore Breaux, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in December 1865.  Their children, born near Gonzales, included Joseph Denys in September 1866; Paul Johnny in January 1870; ...

Joseph dit Dios (c1754-1782) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Joseph dit Dios, elder son of Pierre Babin and Anne Forest, born probably at Pigiguit in c1754, was taken by his family to Maryland.  He came to Louisiana in 1766 with his widowed mother and younger brother Charles and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  Their mother remarried at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony but returned to Cabahannocer.  Joseph dit Dios married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Landry, at Ascension above Cabahannocer in February 1775.  A few years later, they were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension.  Their children, born on the river, included Paul-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, at Ascension in November 1775; Charles in May 1777 but died at age 2 in December 1779; Benjamin baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in July 1778; and Jérôme baptized, age not recorded, in May 1780--four children, all sons, between 1775 and 1780.  Joseph dit Dios died at Ascension in February 1782, age 28.  Two of his sons married, but only one of them produced a family line that endured.  In spite of the son's early death, it became a substantial one in what became St. James and Ascension parishes.  

Oldest son Paul-Hippolyte married first cousin Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Marie-Anne Arceneaux, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in June 1796; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled at Cabahannocer but may have lived briefly on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born on the river and the upper bayou, included Eugène at Cabahannocer in March 1797 but died at the home of Rosémond LeBlanc at Fausse Pointe, St. Martin Parish, age 25, in June 1822; Anne-Clémence, called Clémence, born in May 1799 but died at age 6 in July 1805; Antoine born at Assumption in November 1800 but died at the home of Widow Rosémond LeBlanc at Fausse Pointe, age 26, in September 1826; Arthémise born at Cabahannocer in September 1802 but died at age 17 1/2 in March 1820; and Désiré born at St. James in June 1805 but died at age 6 in September 1811--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1797 and 1805.  Hippolyte died in St. James Parish in August 1811.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Hippolyte was age 27 when he died.  He was 35.  Neither of his daughters married, nor either of his remaining sons, who moved to lower Bayou Teche and died there in their mid-20s, still bachelors.  This line of the family, then, including its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Joseph dit Dios's third son Benjamin married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Marie Richard and Rose Bourgeois, at the St.-Jacques de Cabahanncoer church in May 1797.  Their children, born at Cabahannocer, included Joseph in March 1799; Adélard in January 1801; Marie-Josèphine, called Joséphine, in June 1803; Marie Doralise, called Doralise, in January 1806; Benjamin Ursin, called Ursin, in August 1808; and Nicolas in April 1810--six children, four sons and two daughters, between 1799 and 1810.  Benjamin, père died in St. James Parish in September 1811, age 33.  Daughters Marie Joséphine and Doralise married into the Richard and LeBoeuf families.  All of Benjamin'd sons married. 

Oldest son Joseph married Théotiste Basilise or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Éloi Landry and Marie Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1827.  They settled near Convent, St. James Parish.  Their children, born there, included Benjamin Rigobert in January 1828; Philias Constant, called Constant, in February 1829; Marie Madeleine Octavie in January 1831; Henriette Félicité, also called Marie Félicité, in August 1832; Joseph, also called Joseph Landry and Landry, in 1834 and baptized at age 1 year, 26 days in October 1835; Nicolas le jeune born in May 1837; Marie Doralise in January 1840; and Elizabeth in July 1842 but, called Éliza, died at age 2 (the recording priest said 3) in September 1844--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1828 and 1842.  Daughters Marie Félicité and Marie Doralise married into the Theriot and Falgout families by 1870.  Two of Joseph's sons also married by then, but only one of the lines endured. 

Second son Constant married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Gaudin and Scholastique Hébert, at the Convent church in January 1851.  Did they have any children? 

Joseph's third son Joseph Landry married Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Félix Arceneaux and his Creole wife Virginie Minvielle, at the Convent church in June 1859.  They lived in St. James Parish before and during the War of 1861-65 and moved upland into the area around Gonzales, Ascension Parish, after the war.  Their children, born on the river, included Marie Théotiste near Convent in August 1860; Marie Félicité in October 1863; Louis Joseph Landry in June 1865; Marie Doralice near Gonzales in July 1867; ... 

Benjamin's second son Adélard married Henriette Elise or Lise, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Melançon and Apollonie LeBlanc, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in June 1820.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Félicité in April 1821 but died at age 1 in July 1822; Marguerite born in July 1822 but died in October; Marie Elvina, called Elvina, in c1823; Marie Zulma born in December 1825 but died at age 10 months in October 1826; Simon Oscar, called Oscar, born in February 1828 but died died "age ca. 25 years" in January 1853; and Adélard, fils died several days after his birth in August 1831.  Adélard remarried to Célanie, Céline, or Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Breaux and Élise Breaux, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1835.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included a newborn, name unrecorded, died in October 1836; Pierre Adélard born in March 1838; and Mary Amanda, called Amana, in August 1838[sic, probably 1839]--eight children, at least four daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1821 and 1839.  Adélard, père died in Ascension Parish in November 1839, age 39.  Daughters Elvina and Amanda, by both wives, married into the Breaux and Poché families by 1870.  Adélard's remaining son did not marry by then. 

Benjamin's third son Benjamin Ursin, called Ursin, married Marie Adèle or Odile, called Odile, Berteau probably in Ascension Parish in the early 1830s.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, in July 1834; Joseph Ursin or Ursin Joseph in October 1836; Marie Aselina in September 1838; Fortunat, perhaps theirs, despite his name, died hours after his birth in July 1840; Laura Félicité born in December 1842; Joseph died at age 9 days in June 1845; Joséphine Camille born in September 1848; Rosalisa in August 1852; and Joanna Mathilde in June 1854--nine children, six daughters and three sons, between 1834 and 1854.  Daughter Madeleine married into the Gautreaux and Landry families by 1870.  Benjamin Ursin's remaining son also married by then, during his war service. 

During the War of 1861-65, oldest son Joseph Ursin or Ursin Joseph, called Ursin in Confederate records, served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi.  Ursin was a plasterer, with a dark complexion, light-colored hair, and gray eyes, standing 5 feet 11 inches tall, when he enlisted as a sergeant at New Orleans in May 1861, age 24.  He was his company's first lieutenant when he was captured at Iuka, Mississippi, in September 1862.  Later that month, the Federals sent him to Corinth, Mississippi; to Camp Douglas, Illinois, a prisoner-of-war camp near Chicago; and then to the exchange depot at Cairo, Illinois.  He was exchanged aboard the steamer Esmerelda near Vicksburg, Mississippi, in early November 1862, returned home, and married cousin Marie Élise, daughter of Luc Lesassier and his Acadian wife Aveline Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, later that month.  Ursin returned to his company and was captured and paroled at Vicksburg in July 1863.  After his exchange, he returned to his unit.  In early 1865, he transferred to Company H of Ogden's Regiment Louisiana Cavalry and served as the company's captain.  His command operated in eastern Louisiana along the Amite River and in the Baton Rouge area and surrendered with General Richard Taylor's army at Gainesville, Alabama, in May 1865, Ursin among them.  His and Marie Élise's children, born in Iberville Parish, included Joseph Georges in October 1864 when Ursin was waiting to be exchanged; Charles Samuel in March 1866; Paul Ursin in November 1867; Marie Odile in February 1870; ... 

Benjamin's fourth and youngest son Nicolas married Marie Antoinette, called Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Breaux and Marguerite Richard, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1837.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Jean Baptiste Théodore in April 1837; Joseph Alexandre, called Alexandre, in March 1838; Louis Albert in August 1839; and Joseph Nicolas in April 1842 but died at age 3 1/2 in December 1845--four children, all sons, between 1837 and 1842.  Nicolas died in Ascension Parish in January 1842, age 31.  One of his sons married by 1870. 

Second son Joseph Alexandre married Avelina or Evelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Landry and Élisabeth Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church in April 1860.  Their son Paul Oscar was born in Ascension Parish in December 1864; ... 

Charles (c1760-1783) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Charles, younger son of Pierre Babin and Anne Forest, born probably in Maryland in c1760, came to Louisiana in September 1766 with his widowed mother and older brother Joseph dit Dios.  Charles died at Ascension in January 1783, age 22.  He probably did not marry.  

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At least 20 more Babins, including a large extended family, arrived from Maryland in July 1767.  Spanish officials sent them to the new Acadian community of San Gabriel d'Iberville on the river above Cabahannocer, where several new family lines emerged, though not all of them endured.  One member of the family followed an older married sister to the Attakapas District and created a western branch of the family there: 

Joseph (c1713-?) à Antoine Babin

Joseph, fourth son of Vincent Babin and Anne Thériot, born at Minas or Pigiguit in c1713, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marguerite Forest, at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, probably in c1730.  Anne-Marie gave Joseph many children there:  Dominique born in c1731; Pierre dit Pitre in c1732; Étienne in c1736; Joseph in c1739; Anne-Élisabeth in c1743; another Étienne in c1749; and Cyprien in c1750--six sons and a daughter, between 1731 and 1750.  Older sons Dominique and Pierre married into the Boudrot and Forest families at Minas and Pigiguit.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported Joseph, wife Anne-Marie, daughter Anne-Élisabeth, unmarried sons Étienne and Cyprien, and married sons Dominque and Pierre and their families to Maryland with dozens of their Babin cousins.  In 1767, Joseph, now a 54-year-old widower, three of his unmarried younger children, two sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland.  Joseph, père did not remarry in the colony.  Daughter Anne-Élisabeth married twice into the Hébert family in the Spanish colony.  One of Joseph père's younger sons also created his own family there, but the line did not endure.  Joseph, père's married sons Dominque and Pierre died in Maryland before 1766.  Pierre's sons Joseph dit Dios and Charles followed their widowed mother, Anne Forest, to Louisiana in 1766; and Dominique's seven children, four sons and three daughters, having also lost their mother in Maryland, followed their paternal grandfather and other relatives to Louisiana in 1767, two of them with families of their own.  All of the grandsons, including the one who had come to the colony earlier, married, one of them on the western prairies, so this large family line endured. 

Fifth son Étienne followed his family to Maryland and his widowed father and siblings to Louisiana in 1767.  He married a woman perhaps at San Gabriel whose name has been lost to history.  Evidently she gave him two sons, names unrecorded, who did not survive childhood.  Étienne remarried to Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure LeBlanc and Marie Thériot, at Cabahannocer downriver from San Gabriel in January 1778.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Joseph in October 1778 but died at age 10 months in 1779; Isaac born in September 1780 but died in Iberville Parish, age 64 (the recording priest said 63), "unmarried," in September 1844; Joseph-Bénoni born in December 1781 but died at age 3 in October 1784; Marie-Madeleine born in March 1784; Augustin in March 1786 but died in Iberville Parish, age 41, in May 1827; Françoise in November 1787[sic]; Louis-Raphaël in January 1788[sic]; and Dorothée born perhaps in the 1780s--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, by two wives, between the 1760s and 1788.  Étienne died at San Gabriel in December 1788, age 39.  Daughters Dorothée and Marie Madeleine, by his second wife, married into the Seguinaud, Lacave, and Lopez families.  None of Étienne's remaining sons seems to have married, so this branch of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Joseph's sixth and youngest son Cyprien followed his family to Maryland, his widowed father and sibling to Louisiana in 1767, and settled with them at San Gabriel.  In the late 1700s or early 1800s, he moved upriver to the Baton Rouge area, where he died in January 1814.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Cyprien was age 70 when he died.  He was closer to 64.  He never married.   

Jean-Baptiste (c1739-?) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Jean-Baptiste, oldest son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot and grandson of Joseph, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1739, followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Isabelle- or Élisabeth-Marguerite LeBlanc, in the late 1750s or early 1760s.  She gave him two children there:  Marguerite in c1765; and Pierre in January 1767.  Jean-Baptiste, Isabelle, their two children, and a 3-year-old Babin orphan followed his paternal grandfather, uncles, and aunt to Louisiana in 1767 and settled on the "right back ascending" [the east bank] at San Gabriel.  Son Pierre evidently died there, if he survived the crossing from Maryland.  Isabelle gave Jean-Baptiste more children at San Gabriel, including Grégoire in c1768; Joseph-Casimir in c1773; Senateur, called Nateur, Nator, and Joseph-Senateur, in September 1774; Pierre-Olivier, called Olivier, baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in June 1777 but died at San Gabriel at age 10 in March 1787; Jean-Pierre born in November 1778 but died near St. Gabriel, age 47, in September 1826; Félix-Simon, called Simon, born in May 1781; Paul in June 1783; and Marie-Anne in March 1786--10 children, two daughters and eight sons, between 1765 and 1786, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Daughters Marguerite and Marie Anne married into the Allain, Breaux, and LeBlanc families.  Five of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married and settled on the river. 

Second son Grégoire married Marie-Anne, called Manette, Marine, or Marinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at San Gabriel in May 1800.  Their children, born there, included Marieline or Marceline in July 1801; Marie-Félonise in June 1803; Sylvère or Sylvestre in December 1804; Élisabeth in September 1806; Marine in June 1808; Grégoire Napoléon, called Napoléon, in April 1810; Marguerite Adeline in April 1812; Balthazar in September 1814; and Édouard Marcellin in October 1816--nine children, five daughters and four sons, between 1801 and 1816.  Grégoire died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1828.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Grégoire was age 60 when he died.  Daughters Marceline and Marguerite married into the Comeaux and LeBlanc families.  Three of Grégoire's sons also married and settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Oldest son Sylvère or Sylvestre married Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Hébert and his second wife Adélaïde Dupuy of West Baton Rouge Parish, probably at St. Gabriel in the early 1830s.  Their son Telesphore was born near Baton Rouge in December 1834.  Sylvestre remarried to Ameline, Amelina, or Melvina, another daughter of Bénoni Hébert and Adélaïde Dupuy, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1838; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of affinity in order to marry.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Antoine Omer in September 1838; Édouard in July 1842; Zoé Adélaïde baptized, age unrecorded, in June 1840; Joseph Buffington, called Buffington, in November 1843; Edgar in September 1845; Aloysia in March 1847; Jean Baptiste Forester in November 1850; and Marie Aurelia posthumously in April 1852--nine children, six sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1834 and 1852.  Sylvestre died near Baton Rouge in November 1851, age 46 (the recording priest said 48).  Daughter Marie Aurelia, by his second wife, married into the Langlois family by 1870.  One of Sylvestre's sons also married by then. 

Fourth son Buffington, by second wife Ameline Hébert, married Mazelia, daughter of François Xavier Zimmer and Célestine Grose, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1869. ...

Grégoire's second son Napoléon married fellow Acadian Marie Virginie, called Virginie, Hébert perhaps in West Baton Rouge Parish by the early 1840s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Domitille Alexine in August 1846; Joseph le jeune in December 1849; Jean Baptiste Winfield Scott in November 1852; Odile Geneviève in June 1855; Albert in February 1859; Jean Charles in December 1862; ...  None of Napoléon's children married by 1870. 

Grégoire's third son Balthazar married Martha, daughter of Louis Buckner and Marie Treger, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1853.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Mary in March 1864; Martha in September 1867; ...

Jean-Baptiste's third son Joseph-Casimir married Anne or Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Hébert and Anne Landry, at San Gabriel in October 1798.  Their children, born there, included Madeleine, also called Anne Madeleine, in July 1799; Marguerite-Eugènie in November 1801; Joseph-Casimir, fils, called Casimir, in March 1803 but died at age 7 1/2 in December 1810; Jean Baptiste le jeune born in May 1804; François Napoléon Théophile, called Théophile, in April 1806; twins Derosin or Drosin and Jean Pierre in June 1808, but Jean Pierre died at age 7 1/2 in February 1816; François Célestin, called Célestin, born in October 1810; Marie Euphémise or Euphémie in February 1813 but died in August; Henry Wallmond or Valmond, called Henry V. and H. V., born in September 1814; Jean Baptiste Joseph Marcellin, called Joseph Marcellin, in February 1818; Marie Virginie in February 1820 but, called Virginia, died near Baton Rouge, age 31 (the recording priest said 30), in September 1851 and was buried in Highland Cemetery; and Élisabeth Florestine born in November 1822--13 children, five daughters and eight sons, including a set of twins, between 1799 and 1822.  Joseph Casimir may have been the Joseph Babin who died near Baton Rouge in May 1830, age 55.  If so, he would have been in his late 50s at the time of his passing.  Daughters Anne Madeleine, Marguerite Eugénie, and Élisabeth married into the Thomas, Provenché, Philips, and Aubin families.  Six of Joseph's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Second son Jean Baptiste le jeune married Judith, daughter of French Canadian David Provenché and his Acadian wife Anne LeBlanc, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1828; Judith's brother married one of Jean Baptiste's sisters.  Jean Baptiste le jeune and Judith's children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Eziloa in June 1830; Jean Baptiste, fils died eight days after his birth in March 1832; and Eugénie Audile or Odile, also called Marie Odile, born posthumously in August 1834[sic, probably 1833]--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1830 and 1833.  Jean Baptiste le jeune evidently was the "Jeane Bte. [Babin]" who died near St. Gabriel in June 1833.  The recording priest, who gave no parents' names or mentioned a wife, said he died at age 32.  He was 31.  Daughter Odile married an Hébert cousin, but her early death, probably from childbirth, meant that not even the blood of this family line may not have endured.   

Joseph Casimir's third son Théophile married cousin Phelonise, daughter of Bénoni Hébert and his second wife Adélaïde Dupuy of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1827.  She evidently gave him no children.  Théophile remarried to Victorine, daughter of François Souchon Aubin and his Acadian wife Mélanie Daigre and widow of Théophile's youngest brother Joseph Marcellin, at the Baton Rouge church in December 1848.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Théophile Joseph or Joseph Théophilus in December 1849; Palmire in June 1852; Mary Victoria in September 1854; Emma Dora in March 1857; Henriette Aloysia in June 1859; Antoinette Loelia in January 1862; Olivia Elvina in August 1867; ...  None of Théophile's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did.

Only son Joseph Théophilus, by second wife Victorine Aubin, married Virginia, daughter of Jean Baptiste Fuentes and Marie Navarre, at the Baton Rouge church in November 1869. ...

Joseph Casimir's fourth son Derosin or Drosin, a twin, married Catherine Bouillon probably at Baton Rouge in the early 1830s.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marianne Madeleine dite Mary in April 1834; Gilbert Derosin in February 1835; Élizabeth in c1839; Jane Lavinia in July 1840 but, called Lavinia, died at age 10 1/2 (the recording priest said 12) in June 1851; Joseph Théophile born in February 1843; Francis or François le jeune in February 1845; Esthelle in c1847; and Mary Agnès in September 1851--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1834 and 1851.  Daughter Élizabeth married into the Aubin family by 1870.  None of Derosin's sons married by then. 

Joseph Casimir's sixth son François Célestin, called Celestin, married Marie Éloise, Héloise, or Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Rémi Doiron and Julie Richard, at the Baton Rouge church in July 1836.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included Marie Julia Odilia in August 1838; Palmiro Marien, also called Mary Anne Palmyra, in May 1841; François Célestin, fils in February 1843; Zépherine Élodie, called Élodie, in October 1844; Apollinaire in January 1851 but died at age 14 (the recording priest said 13) in February 1865; and Emma Lousinga born in September 1856--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1838 and 1856.  At age 55, François Célestin, père remarried to Caroline, daughter of Luke Blount and Sarah Powers and widow of Louis Powers, at the Baton Rouge church in May 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for "difference of religion" in order to marry.  Did she give him anymore children?  Daughters Marie Julia Odilia, Mary Anne Palmyra, and Élodie, by his first wife, married into the Oldham, Bradshaw, Heroman, and Grear families by 1870.  None of Célestin's sons married by then. 

Joseph Casimir's seventh son Henry Valmond, called Henry V., while living in West Baton Rouge Parish, married fellow Acadian Faustine or Florestine Trahan of West Baton Rouge Parish at the Baton Rouge church in June 1838.  Daughter Malvina was born probably near Baton Rouge in c1842.  Henry V. served as sheriff of East Baton Rouge Parish from 1851 to 1864.  Daughter Malvina married into the Haynes family.  Henry V. and his wife evidently had no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, may not have endured. 

Joseph Casimir's eighth and youngest son Joseph Marcellin married Victorine, daughter of François Souchon Aubin and his Acadian wife Mélanie Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church in January 1844.  Their children, born near Baton Rouge, included François Jean Baptiste in October 1845; and Ernestine Adonia, also called Émiline, in October 1847.  Joseph Marcellin died by December 1848, when his widow remarried to his older brother Théophile.  Neither of Joseph Marcellin's children married by 1870. 

Jean-Baptiste's fourth son Senateur, called Nateur and Nator, married, at age 24, 24-year-old Élise, Éloise, or Héloise, another daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at San Gabriel in April 1799.  Their children, born there, included Isabelle-Adeline, called Adeline, in March 1800 but died at age 2 in February 1802; Senateur-Victor or Victor-Senateur born in August 1801; Joseph Neville in August 1803 but died at age 10 months in June 1804; Adeline born in June 1805; Marie Thirside or Telcide in November 1807; Joseph or William Neuville, called Neuville, in December 1809; Marie Céline or Celina in December 1812; and Marie Adeline or Advelina, called Advelina, in February 1815--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1800 and 1815.  Senateur died near St. Gabriel in March 1821.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Senateur was age 40 when he died.  He was 46.  Daughters Adeline, Marie Telcide, Marie Celina, and Advelina married into the Joly, Dupuy, and Lesassier families, including two Joly brothers.  Senateur's remaining sons also married and settled at St. Gabriel. 

Oldest Senateur Victor or Victor Senateur married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon and widow of Victorin Chiasson, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in December 1826.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Michel Adolphe, called Adolphe, in September 1827; Élise in December 1831 but, called Eliza, died at age 21 (the recording priest said 22) in September 1853; and Marie Myrza, called Myrza, born in August 1838--three children, a son and two daughters, between 1827 and 1838.  Victor Senateur died near St. Gabriel in July 1844, age 42.  Daughter Myrza married into the Berry family.  Victor's son also married by 1870. 

Only son Michel Adolphe, called Adolphe, married Léocade, daughter of Venance St. Amant and Marianne Joly, at the St. Gabriel church in March 1851.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marianne Hermine in December 1851; Eliza in January 1853; Victor Alfred in January 1856; Michel Adolphe, fils in April 1858; Marie Adèle in June 1860; Euphrasie in May 1862; Paul Firmin in September 1866; ...  None of Adolphe's children married by 1870. 

Senateur's third and youngest son Neuville married Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Part and his Anglo-American wife Constance Henderson, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1836.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Irma in December 1836; Louis Senateur in June 1838; Emma in September 1840; Michael Oscar, called Oscar, in September 1842; Marie Myrza in November 1844 but died at age 7 1/2 in June 1852; Alexandre Neuville born in October 1847; Lucien Arthur in April 1849 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1851; Alphonse born in October 1852; Joseph in September 1854; and Marie Alice in June 1857--10 children, four daughters and six sons, between 1836 and 1857.  Daughters Marie Irma and Emma married the same Boissac by 1870.   Two of Neuville's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Louis Senateur married Mary Odile, called Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard LeBlanc and Lucille Allain, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1868.  Their son Henry Édouard had been born in Iberville Parish in October 1868 and was baptized perhaps on the day of his parents' wedding; ... 

Neuville's second son Oscar married Marie Louise, daughter of Timoléon Boissac and his Acadian wife Odile LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1869; two of Marie Louise's brothers married two of Oscar's sisters. ...

Jean-Baptiste's seventh son Félix Simon, called Simon, married cousin Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Landry and Devine Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1804.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Henriette Zenolie in October 1805 but, called Fannelly, died at age 44 (the recording priest said 45) in June 1850; Simon Eugène, called Eugène, born in April 1807; Célestine in February 1809; Marie Joséphine in May 1811 but, called Joséphine, died at age 44 (the recording priest said 40) in September 1855; Simon Rosémond, called Rosémond, born in September 1813; Henriette Séraphine in January 1814[sic, probably 1816]; Jean Baptiste Dorville or Dorval, called Dorval, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1818; Jean Adolphe born in December 1820; Marie Melidas in May 1822; and Madeleine Séraphine, called Séraphine, in August 1825 but died at age 3 in September 1828--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1805 and 1825.  Simon may have died near St. Gabriel in June 1826.  The priest who recorded the burial, and did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Simon was age 40 when he died.  Félix Simon à Jean Baptiste would have been age 45.  Daughters Célestine and Henriette Séraphine married into the Desbains and Christen families.  Félix Simon's sons also married, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Eugène married double cousin Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Henri Babin and Marie Louise Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in April 1845.  Eugène died near St. Gabriel in November 1852, age 45.  His line of the family probably died with him. 

Félix Simon's second son Simon Rosémond, called Rosémond, married Hermina, daughter of Firmin Duplessis and Louise Tusson, at the St. Gabriel church in November 1843.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Anthony in November 1846 but died at age 1 in December 1847; Eliza born in December 1847; Marie Olivia in May 1849; a daughter, name unrecorded, in c1850 but died at age 3 in October 1853; and George Dallas born in October 1851--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1846 and 1851.  Rosémond died near St. Gabriel in October 1853, age 40 (the recording priest, who called him Simon Rosémond and named his wife and parents, said 41).  None of Rosémond's remaining children married by 1870. 

Félix Simon's third son Jean Baptiste Dorval, called Dorval, married double cousin Marie Alazida or Alzida, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Babin and Sidalise Babin of Ascension Parish, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1844.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Alcesse or Alcée Elphége in July 1846; Austin in June 1848; and Léonard Lorenz in November 1852--three children, all sons,  between 1846 and 1852.  None of Dorval's sons married by 1870. 

Félix Simon's fourth and youngest son Jean Adolphe may have married cousin Elvina Babin and settled in Ascension Parish by the early 1840s.  Did the family line endure?

Jean-Baptiste's eighth and youngest son Paul married Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of Frenchman Jean Pierre Cullere or Dulaire and his Acadian wife Madeleine LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1813.  Their children, born at St. Gabriel, included Marie Azélie, called Azélie, in January 1814; and Pierre Paul, called Paul, fils, in May 1816.  Daughter Azélie married into the Brasset and Duplessis families.  Paul's son also married. 

Only son Pierre Paul, also called Paul, fils, married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Paul LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1837.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Emma in May 1837 but, called Mathilde, may have died near Baton Rouge, age 7, in July 1844; Pierre Paul, fils born in October 1838; and Jean Numa in January 1843 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1844--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1837 and 1843.  Paul, fils died near St. Gabriel in December 1845 "of blows received the preceeding[sic] day in a battle with Adams and others."  Paul, fils was age 29.  One wonders what caused the altercation "with Adams and others" and who was Adams.  Paul, fils's remaining son married by 1870. 

Older son Pierre Paul, fils married Rosalie Amilisser, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doiron and Rosalie Bourg, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1864. ...

Ignace (c1741-1791) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Ignace, second son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1741, followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Breau, date unrecorded.  She gave him a son, Paul le jeune, there in December 1766.  They followed his paternal grandfather and brothers to Louisiana soon after their son's birth and settled at San Gabriel on the river, where they had more children, including Joseph in December 1768; and Anne in c1776.  Ignace remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie-Josèphe Comeau and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at Cabahannocer downriver from San Gabriel in February 1778.  They settled at San Gabriel, where Marie-Josèphe gave Ignace another son, Pierre-Paul, baptized at San Gabriel, age unrecorded, in December 1779 but died at age 17 in January 1797--four children, three sons and a daughter, by two wives, between 1766 and 1779, in Maryland and Louisiana.  Ignace died at San Gabriel in November 1791, age 50.  Daughter Anne, by his first wife, married into the Moreau family and settled at Attakapas west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Ignace's sons did not marry, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son Paul le jeune, by first wife Marguerite Breau, may have been the Paul Babin who died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in April 1815.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Paul was age 45 when he died but did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  This Paul would have been age 48.  The priest said nothing of a wife. 

Paul (c1751-1802) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Paul, third son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1751, followed his family to Maryland in 1755.  He came to New Orleans in 1767 with the family of kinsman Pierre Babin, fils and followed them, his paternal grandfather, and other relatives to San Gabriel, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Brasseux and Élisabeth Richard, in February 1784.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Paul-Henri, called Henri or Henry, in March 1785; Pierre in May 1786; Anne-Marine, called Marine, in May 1788; Dorothée-Adélaïde in July 1789; Marie-Claire or Clarisse, called Clarisse, in February 1794; Hubert in July 1796 but died near St. Gabriel, age 30, in April 1827; Euphrosine or Froisine born in January 1799 but died at age 7 in March 1806; and Victor born in June 1801 but died at age 15 months in October 1802--eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1785 and 1802.  Paul died at San Gabriel in January 1802, age 50.  Daughters Marine, Dorothée Adélaïde, and Clarisse married into the Hébert, Thibodeaux, Landry, Gomes, Seguinot, and LeBlanc families, one of them, Marine, three times, another, Clarisse, twice.  Two of Paul's sons also married and settled in what became Iberville Parish. 

Oldest son Paul Henri, called Henri or Henry, married cousin Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Landry and Brigitte Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1809.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Paul Célestin, called Célestin, in June 1810 but died at age 28 in January 1839; Marie Adèle, called Adéle, born in December 1811 but died at age 19 (the recording priest said 20) in April 1831; Marie Clarisse born in February 1817 but died at age 3 1/2 in June 1820; Marie Artémise or Arthémise, called Arthémise, born in December 1820; and Jean Charles, called Charles, in November 1824--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1810 and 1824.  Daughter Arthémise married a Babin cousin.  Paul Henri's remaining son also married. 

Younger son Jean Charles, called Charles, married cousin Marguerite Élise, Élisa, Éliza, or Élysa, daughter of Edmond Joly and his Acadian wife Adeline Babin, at the St. Gabriel church in May 1855.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Marie Olympe in March 1856; Marie Adeline in January 1858; Edmond Henri in September 1859; Charles Joseph in July 1861; Louis Florian in September 1863; Gabriel Ignace in July 1866; Marie Louise in February 1868; Cyrille in January 1870; ...

Paul's second son Pierre married cousin Marine or Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Chiasson and Madeleine Richard, at the St. Gabriel church in February 1811.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Pierre Ursin in November 1811; a son, name unrecorded, died a few days after his birth in December 1813; Adeline, also called Adèle, born in January 1815; Jean Trasimond, called Trasimond, in April 1818; Marie Apollonie dite Pauline in January 1821; Marine in October 1824; and Adolphe, also called Adolphe Pierre and Pierre Adolphe, in August 1827--seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1811 and 1827.  Pierre died near St. Gabriel in June 1851, age 65.  Daughters Adèle, Marine, and Pauline married into the Ross, Brown, and LeBlanc families, all of them non-Acadians.  Two of Pierre's sons also married. 

Third son Jean Trasimond, called Trasimond, married Domitille, daughter of Antoine Lopez and his Acadian wife Élisa Comeaux, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1848.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Magloire in October 1848; Antonio Oscar in January 1850 but died the following July; Pierre Alexandre born in June 1851; Delphine Laurenza in December 1853; Marie Élise in June 1856; Philippe de Osselis in August 1858; Marcel Alonzo in November 1860; Joseph Dhema in November 1865; Trasimond, fils in November 1867; ...  None of Trasimond's children married by 1870. 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Adolphe Pierre or Pierre Adolphe married Carmélite Telcide, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Augustin Hébert and his Creole wife Carmelite Gareuil, at the St. Gabriel church in January 1854.  Their children, born in Iberville Parish, included Paul Ostere in November 1854; Pierre Enos in August 1857; Henry Alphonse in July 1860; Alfred in March 1863; Marie Eliska in January 1865; twins Amédée and Émile in February 1867; Joseph Armand in November 1869; ...  None of Adolphe Pierre's children married by 1870. 

Joseph le jeune (c1755-1820) à Joseph à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Joseph le jeune, fourth and youngest son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, born in Maryland in c1755, came to Louisiana probably in 1767 with his paternal grandfather and his older brothers.  If so, he likely would have followed them to San Gabriel on the river before moving to the Attakapas District, where he first appeared in the general census of 1771 as a 16-year-old living in the household of Claude Martin and Marie Babin, probably his older sister and brother-in-law.  Joseph appeared again on an Attakapas District militia list in January 1773.  He was the first Babin male to remain on the western prairies and the only one to settle there during the colonial and antebellum periods.  He married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Melançon and Marie Breaux, at Attakapas in February 1778.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born on the upper Teche, included Adélaïde baptized, age 5 months, in May 1779; Joseph, fils in September 1783 but likely was the Joseph Babin who died in St. Martin Parish in May 1834, age 50 (the recording priest said 53), whose succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1836; Julien born in September 1786; Pierre-Alexandre or Alexandre-Pierre in October 1792; Louise-Céleste in February 1795; a daughter, unnamed, died a day after her birth in August 1799; and Marcelline- or Marcellite-Arthémise born in July 1802--seven children, three sons and four daughters, between 1779 and 1802.  Joseph, père died at his home at La Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in October 1820.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died at "age about 60 years."  He was closer to 65.  His succession, which calls him "widr. of Anastasie Melançon," was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in April 1821 (so why was Anastasie's succession record not filed at the St. Martinville courthouse until July 1828?).  Daughters Adélaïde, Marcellite Arthémise, and Louise Céleste married into the Savoy, LeBlanc, and Sonnier families.  Two of Joseph le jeune's sons also married and settled along the middle Teche.  His youngest son's family line was especially vigorous. 

Second son Julien married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1807.  Their children, born at La Pointe, included Jean or Julien Nelson, called Nelson, in October 1809; Madeleine Uranie or Urasie in March 1812; Marie Uranie, called Uranie, in October 1814; and a son, name unrecorded, died at his parent's home at La Pointe 17 days after his birth in January 1819--four children, two sons  and two daughters, between 1809 and 1819.  Julien, père died at his home at La Pointe in October 1819, age 33, and was buried "in the parish cemetery."  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in September 1821.  Daughters Madeleine Urasie and Uranie married into the Hébert and Decuir families.  Julien's remaining son also married. 

Older son Jean or Julien Nelson, called Nelson, married Marcellite Arthémise, also called Marguerite, daughter of Charles Cohem, Cohen, Comb, Combe, Come, or Comme and Marie Laviolette, at the St. Martinville church in July 1834.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included a son, name unrecorded, in May 1835 but died three days after his birth; Julien Fostin, perhaps also called Jules N. and Jean Baptiste, born in August 1836; Eudgar Numa, called Numa, in March 1838; Marguerite Aima or Emma, called Emma, in February 1840; Charles Orel in October 1842; Victoire or Victoria in October 1844; Omer baptized, age unrecorded, in August 1848; and Jean born in March 1850--eight children, six sons and two daughters, between 1835 and 1850.  Nelson's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1867.  He would have been age 58 that year.  Daughters Emma and Victoria married into the Hébert and Romero families by 1870.  Two of his sons also married by then. 

Second son Julien Foster/Jules N./Jean Baptiste married Agnès Victorine, called Victorine, daughter of Bernard Romero and Lise Caroline Feignant, in a civil ceremony in St. Martin Parish in August 1857.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Jules Aubin in February 1859 but probably died at age 9 1/2 in October 1868; Léonce Numa born in January 1861; Léonard in June 1863 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 2) in May 1865; Eugènat born in January 1866 but died the following August; Adam Omer born in August 1867 but, called Adam, died at age 2 in September 1869; Lucas born near Breaux Bridge in December 1869; ...  A succession for Jules Babin was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1867.  If this was Julien Fostin, a.k.a. Jean Baptiste, he would have been age 31 that year.  Judging by the birth of one of his sons, it would not have been a post-mortem succession. 

Nelson's third son Eudgar Numa, called Numa, married  Marie C. Romero, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Numa Euzèbe was born near Breaux Bridge in April 1863; ... 

Joseph le jeune's third and youngest son Pierre Alexandre or Alexandre Pierre, called Alexandre, married Marie Tarsille, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Thibodeaux and Félicité Bernard of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church in February 1817.  Their children, born at La Pointe, included Alexandre, also called Pierre-Alexandre, fils, in December 1817 but, called Pierre, died at age 8 1/2 in January 1830; Placide, also called Jules, born in March 1819; Joseph, fils, also called Joseph Dermancourt or Dermancourt, in November 1820; Charles, also called Charles Sidné, in August 1822; Anastasie in April 1824; Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, perhaps theirs, in c1825; Julien le jeune in January 1826 but died at age 38 in May 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); Jean Omair or Omer, called Omer, Homère, and also Amédé, born in October 1827; Michel in September 1829; Marie Célestine, called Célestine, in September 1831; Alexandre, fils in March 1833, but, called Orelle, died at age 3 1/2 in October 1836; Placide Émile, called Émile, born in January 1835; Irène Théogène, called Théogène, in March 1837; Marguerite Léontine, called Léontine, in May 1839; Olymphe Delphine in December 1840; Marie Anaïse, called Anaïs, in October 1842; Félicité or Félicie in June 1844; and Amorilda, also called Marie and Ada, in August 1846--18 children, 10 sons and eight daughters, between 1817 and 1846.  Alexandre, père died probably at La Pointe in December 1855, age 63.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following February.  Daughters Arthémise, Célestine, Léontine, Anaïs, Félicie, and Ada married into the Broussard, Mouton, Cormier, Guilbeau, and Hébert families, and perhaps into the Melançon family as well, one of them, Anaïs, twice, and two of them, Célestine and Anaïs, to Broussards, by 1870.  Six of Alexandre's sons also married by then. 

Second son Placide may have died near Lydia, Iberia Parish, in December 1870.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that P. Babin died "at age 50 yrs."  Placide/Jules à Pierre Alexandre would have been age 51.  One wonders if he married.  

Alexandre's third son Joseph Dermancourt, called Dermancourt, married Marguerite Cléonise or Cléonide, daughter of Joseph Allegre and his Acadian wife Marguerite Cormier and widow of Achille Sonnier, at the St. Martinville church in April 1853.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Alice in March 1853; Ubalde in May 1854; Marie Ludivine in March 1856; Albert in March 1858; Marie Ersilie in March 1862; Odile in January 1864; Jeanne Ida in December 1867; ...  None of Dermancourt's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's fourth son Charles Sidné married cousin Marie Léomire or Louise, also called Marie Henri, daughter of fellow Acadians Colin LeBlanc and Marcellite Arthémise Babin, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, April 1844.  They settled up bayou near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Marie Cecilia in March 1845; Charles, fils baptized, age unrecorded, in January 1848; Cécile born in April 1849 and may have died in St. Martin Parish, age 18 (the recording priest said 17), in July 1867; Pierre Egmard born in January 1852; Rose Arthémise in March 1854; Élodie in April 1856 but died at age 6 1/2 in June 1863; Marie Elmire born in July 1858 but, called Elmira, died at age 4 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in June 1863; Marie Blanche born in February 1862 but, called Blanche, may have died at age 2 1/2 in January 1865; Joseph Gaston born in November 1864; Luc in October 1868; ...  None of Charles Sidné's children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's sixth son Jean Omer, called Omer and also Amédé, married cousin Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élisée Paul Thibodeaux and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church in January 1851.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their children, born there, included Omer, fils in December 1851; Élise in July 1853; Alicia in June 1855; Marie in July 1858; Élizée in May 1860 but, called Élisée, died at age 1 1/2 in December 1861; Honoré born in October 1862; Oser in January 1865 but died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 10 months) in June 1866; and Elmire born in May 1867, six months before her father's death--eight  children, four sons and four daughters, between 1851 and 1867.  Omer died in St. Martin Parish in November 1867.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mention a wife, said that Omer died "at age 37 yrs."  He was 40.  His succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's seventh son Michel married Marie Azéma, called Azéma, another daughter of Joseph Allegre and Marguerite Cormier, at the St. Martinville church in February 1853.  Their children, born in St. Martin Parish, included Gabriel in August 1855; Ernest in November 1855[sic]; Alexandre le jeune in March 1858; Michel Alcibiade in December 1860; Sidonie Blanche in August 1862 but, called Blanche, may have died at age 2 1/2 in January 1865; Marie Eucharis born in September 1864; ...  Michel's succession, naming his wife, was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1867.  He would have been age 38 that year.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Alexandre's ninth son Placide Émile, called Émile, married Joséphine Letitia, called Letitia, daughter of Joseph Baptiste Castille and Adeleine Nerault and widow of Alexandre Girard, at the St. Martinville church in December 1860.  Daughter Marie Eudolie in September 1861. Wife Letitia died in August 1863, age 26.  One wonders if her death was war-related. 

Alexandre's tenth and youngest son Iréné Théogène, called Théogène, married Mathilde, daughter of Lucien Decuir and his Acadian wife Cléonise Breaux, at the New Iberia church in January 1861.  Their son Joseph Alcide was born near New Iberia in January 1866; ...   

Pierre, fils (c1723-?) à Charles à Antoine Babin

Pierre, fils, son of perhaps Pierre Babin and Madeleine Bourg of Minas, born probably at Minas in c1723, married Madeleine, daughter of perhaps Joseph Richard and Mare LeBlanc of Minas, probably at Minas in the early 1750s.  Madeleine gave Pierre, fils a daughter, Louise-Ludivine, born there in c1754.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  The couple with their daughter appeared on a repatriation list at Upper Marlborough in July 1763.  Son Simon-Pierre or Pierre-Simon was born there in c1764.  Pierre, fils, Madeleine, their two children, and a teenaged Babin orphan went to Louisiana in 1767 and followed their fellow passengers to San Gabriel.  They remained on the river, where they had more children, including Joseph-Dosité born in January 1774; and Madeleine-Adélaide, called Adélaïde, baptized, age unrecorded, in May 1777--four children, two daughters and two sons, between 1754 and 1777, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana.  In March 1777, they were living on the "right bank ascending," that is, the left or east bank, of the river at San Gabriel.  Pierre died by April 1778, in his early 50s, when his wife remarried to a Dugas downriver at Cabahannocer.  Daughters Louise-Ludivine and Marie-Adélaïde married into the Landry and Pujol families.  Both of Pierre, fils's sons also married.  His older son settled on the west bank of the river near the boundary of what became Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes, where most of his sons died young or did not marry.  One of them, however, did create a family of his own and became a prosperous sugar planter in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Pierre's younger son remained in St. Gabriel, but his line died out despite two marriages.  

Older son Simon-Pierre or Pierre-Simon married cousin Marguerite-Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Anne Landry, at San Gabriel in April 1795.  Their children, born at San Gabriel, included Simon in December 1796 but may have died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 29 (the recording priest said age 40), in June 1826; Simon-Pierre, fils, also called Vernon-Pierre, born in August 1801 but died at age 33 (the recording priest said 35) near St. Gabriel in January 1835; Joseph-Valéry, called Valéry, born in May 1803 but died at age 19 in February 1822; twins Apollonie and Emérante born in April 1805, but Apollonie died the following September; Marie Joséphine born in August 1806; Geneviève Victorine, called Victorine, in January 1808 but died the following July; Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, born in March 1809 but died in West Baton Rouge Parish, age 22, in August 1831; and Pierre Paul or Paul Pierre born posthumously in June 1810--nine children, four sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, between 1796 and 1810.  Simon Pierre died near St. Gabriel in December 1809.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon Pierre was age 50 when he died.  He was closer to 45.  Evidently none of his daughters married.  Only one of his sons married and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish, where he became a major planter. 

Fourth and youngest son Pierre Paul or Paul Pierre, called Paul, at age 26, married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Élisabeth Hébert of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in May or June 1836.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Emma, called Emma, probably in the late 1830s; Frances in c1838; Ernest, also called Franklin, in July 1840; Thomas W. in c1842; Marie Henriette in February 1846; and Marie Estelle in May 1848--six children, four daughters and two sons, between 1838 and 1848.  In 1860, Paul P. Babin, as he was called, owned 1,400 acres, 800 of them "improved," in West Baton Rouge Parish; 110 slaves worked his plantation and its steam-powered sugar mill, making him one of the state's "great planters."  Daughter Marie Emma married into the Blanchard family by 1870.  Paul's sons evidently did not marry by then. 

Pierre, fils's younger son Joseph-Dosité, called Dosité, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Anne Landry, at San Gabriel in October 1798; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  She evidently gave him no children, at least none who survived infancy.  At age 45, Dosité remarried to cousin Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Daigre and Marie Jeanne Richard and widow of Augustin Templet, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1819.  Dosité died in Ascension Parish in January 1857.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or mentioned a wife, said that Dosité died at "age 90 years."  He was 83.  He evidently produced no children by either of his wives, so his line of the family died with him.  

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Twenty more Babins, including three brothers, came to Louisiana with the Breau party from Port Tobacco, Maryland, in February 1768.  Spanish Governor Ulloa insisted that they go to the new outpost-settlement at San Luìs de Natchez, across from British Natchez and far upriver from the other Acadian settlements.  Like most of their fellow passengers, the Babins hoped to live among their relatives at Cabahannocer, Ascension, or San Gabriel, so they settled only reluctantly at the isolated outpost.  The following year, after suppressing a French-Creole-led rebellion against Ulloa at New Orleans, Spanish Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly, Ulloa's successor, allowed the Fort San Luìs Acadians to abandon the post and settle where they wanted.  Most of the Babins at Fort San Luìs resettled at Ascension on the Acadian Coast and in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, where two more vigorous family lines emerged: 

Joseph l'aîné (c1730-late 1760s or early 1770s) à ? à Antoine Babin

Joseph Babin l'aîné, born at Minas in c1730, married cousin Rosalie, daughter of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, probably in Maryland.  Colonial officials counted them with a son at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  They came to Louisiana in February 1768 with two young children--Simon, age 5; and Marie-Rosalie, age 2--and Joseph's younger brother Joseph le jeune, and followed their fellow passengers to Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  After the Acadians were allowed to leave the outpost in 1769, Joseph evidently took his family to San Gabriel.  He died there by January 1773, when wife Rosalie remarried to an Hébert widower.  His son died at San Luìs de Natchez soon after reaching Louisiana, and his daughter also may have died young, so this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Joseph le jeune (c1754-?) à ? à Antoine Babin

Joseph Babin le jeune, born at Minas in c1754, came to Louisiana in February 1768 with the family of his older brother Joseph l'aîné, who was old enough to be his father.  Joseph le jeune followed them to Fort San Luìs de Natchez and perhaps to San Gabriel after 1769.  He does not seem to have married.

François-Marie (c1742-1796) à Vincent à Antoine Babin

François-Marie, eldest son of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born at Minas in c1742, followed his family to Maryland, where he married Marguerite-Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of Amand Breau and Marie Landry of Pigiguit in c1763.  Hélène gave him two sons in the colony:  Charles born in c1765; and Paul in August 1767.  Soon after their second son's birth, the family, along with two young Babin orphans, François-Marie's widowed mother, and a younger brother, followed the Breaus to Spanish Louisiana.  They were forced to settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez and, after the Acadians were allowed to leave, resettled at Ascension on the Acadian Coast, where they had more children, including Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in December 1771 and baptized at New Orleans the following April; François, fils born at Ascension in May 1774; and Marguerite-Isabelle or -Élisabeth baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1777--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1765 and 1777, in Maryland and Louisiana.  François died at San Gabriel in October 1796, age 54.  Daughters Madeleine and Marguerite Éisabeth married into the Rivet and LeBlanc families.  François-Marie's three sons also married, but not all of the lines endured.  His oldest son remained on the river, though two of his sons settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His youngest son left the river and moved to Terrebonne Parish.  

Oldest son Charles married Madeleine-Angélique, called Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Paul Foret and Marguerite Orillion dit Champagne of Ascension, at San Gabriel above Ascension in January 1801.  They lived near the boundary between those districts.  Their children, born there, included Charles-Édouard, called Édouard, in October 1801; Marie-Adeline in March 1803; twins Joseph Arsène, called Arsène, and Marguerite Séraphine in January or February 1805; twins, names unrecorded, died a day after their birth in November 1806; an infant, name and age unrecorded, died in October 1809; Marie Isabelle born in March 1811; and Zéphirin Napoléon in August 1812--nine children, at least three sons and three daughters, including two sets of twins, between 1801 and 1812.  Charles, père died in Ascension Parish in December 1826, age 61.  Daughter Marie Adeline married into the Dugas family.  Two of Charles's sons also married and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Charles Édouard, called Édouard, at age 24, married cousin Mathilde, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dugas and Rosalie Foret, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1825; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled at Bruly on the west side of the river in Ascension Parish near the boundary with Assumption Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Berthilde Marcellite, called Marcellite, in November 1825; Joseph Michel in September 1827 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1831; Joseph Achille, called Achille, born in October 1829; Joseph Édouard, called Édouard, fils, in February 1832; Joseph Napoléon in April 1833 but died at age 15 1/2 in January 1849; and Joseph Dernon born in July 1835.  Édouard remarried to Marie Domitille, daughter of Jean Baptiste Gros and Marie Englehardt, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1838.  They settled near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish.  Their children, born there, included Marie Hélène, called Hélène and Helena, in August 1839; Joseph Mélite in July 1847; and Joseph Anatole, called Anatole, in April 1849--nine children, two daughters and seven sons, by two wives, between 1825 and 1849.  Charles Édouard died near Paincourtville in January 1852, age 50 (the recording priest said 51).  Daughters Marcellite and Helena, by both wives, married into the Hébert and Gautreaux families by 1870.  Four of Charles Édouard's sons also married by then.  His youngest son settled on lower Bayou Teche after the War of 1861-65, but the others remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

Second son Joseph Achille, called Achille, from first wife Mathilde Dugas, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Godefroi Breaux and his Creole wife Rosalie Copelle, at the Paincourtville church in January 1853.  They settled in Assumption Parish between Paincourtville and Pierre Part.  Their children, born there, included Marie Camilla in May 1854; Joseph Camille in March 1856 but, called Camille, died at age 7 in January 1864; Joseph Théophile born in April 1858; Neré Lusignant in May 1861; ... None of Achille's children married by 1870. 

Édouard's third son Joseph Édouard, called Édouard, fils, from first wife Mathide Dugas, married Laura Angéline, called Angéline, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Eléonore Giroir, at the Paincourtville church in February 1854.  They also settled between Paincourtville and Pierre Part.  Their children, born there, included Angéline in April 1855; Joseph Édouard, fils in August 1856; and Marie in August 1858--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1855 and 1858.  Édouard, père died near Paincourtville in January 1860, age 27.  None of his children married by 1870. 

Édouard's fifth son Joseph Dernon, called Dernon, from first wife Mathilde Dugas, married cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Landry and Françoise Landry, at the Paincourtville church in January 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for third or fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Joséphine Emma in March 1863; Jannette Florvilla in July 1866; ...

Édouard's seventh and youngest son Joseph Anatole, called Anatole, from second wife Marie Domitille Gros, married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Broussard and Cléorie Louvière and a widow, at the New Iberia church, Iberia Parish, in January 1868.  Their son Joseph Catoire was born near New Iberia in September 1868; ... 

Charles's second son Joseph Arsène, a twin, married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of François Constant Peignier and Rosalie Foutelet, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1837.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their children, born there, included Marie Octavie in June 1840; Joseph Félix, called Félix, in August 1842; Marie Emelina in April 1844 but, called Marie Amelina, died at age 2 in May 1846; and Marie Malvina born in August 1846--four children, a son and three daughters, between 1840 and 1846.  Joseph Arsène, called Arcène by the recording priest, died near Paincourtville in January 1847, age 42 (the recording priest said 43).   None of his daughters married by 1870, but his son did and settled in Ascension Parish, perhaps on the upper bayou. 

Only son Félix married cousin Amelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Casimir Babin and Nanette Boudreaux, at the Donaldsonville church in December 1868. ...

François-Marie's second son Paul married Marguerite-Pélagie, another daughter of Michel Dugas and Rosalie Foret, at Ascension in April 1802.  They settled near the boundary of what became Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their children, there, included Henriette Félonie in February 1803; Valéry Joseph or Joseph Valéry in April 1804 but died at age 19 in January 1824; Jean or Paul Laurent born in August 1806 but died at age 7 in August 1813; Eulalie Clotilde born in March 1809 but died 12 days after her birth; and Marie Eugénie, called Eugénie, born in October 1810--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1803 and 1810.  Daughters Henriette Félonise and Marie Eugénie married into the Babin and L'Alemand families, including two Babin brothers.  Neither of Paul's sons were able to marry, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure. 

François-Marie's third and youngest son François, fils married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Broussard and Madeleine Landry, at Ascension in April 1799.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and San Gabriel.  Their children, born there, included Françoise-Séraphine, called Séraphine, in March 1800 but died at age 3 in May 1803; Louis-Étienne born in October 1801; Firmin Henri in July 1804; Marguerite Eugénie dite Jeanne in April 1806; and François Maximilien, called Maximilien, in the mid- or late 1800s.  At age 35, François, fils remarried to Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clouâtre and Marie Thibodeaux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October 1809.  By the early 1820s, Francois, fils moved his family to what became Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the river and in Terrebonne, included Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, at St. Gabriel in September 1810; Joseph Dorville, called Dorville and perhaps also Huberville, in December 1811; Pierre Achille, called Achille, in March 1813; Marie Josèphe or Joséphine Hellena dite Élinor in August 1815; Dreville Adrien in March 1817; Élie Napoléon, called Napoléon, baptized at St. Gabriel, age 9 months, in May 1819; Marie Madeleine Lorenza born probably in what soon became Terrrebonne Parish in August 1821; Louis Théodule in January 1824; Marie Oreline in May 1826; and Jacques in July 1828--15 children, six daughters and nine sons, by two wives, between 1800 and 1828.  François, fils died in Terrebonne Parish in January 1850, age 75, a widower.  His succession inventory, naming his deceased second wife and listing his children and his daughter's spouses--Joseph Dorville, Pierre Achille, Firmin Henry, Maximilien, Napoléon, Jacques, Jeanne and her husband, Marie Marcellite and her husband, Élinor and her husband, Madeleine Lorenza and her husband, and Mazee Oreline and her husband--was filed at the Houma courthouse in February.  Daughters Marguerite Eugénie, Marcellite, Marie Joséphine Hellena, Marie Oreline, and Marie Madeleine Lorenza, from both wives, married into the Foret, Chatanier, Pitre, Pye, Olivier, and Crochet families.  Six of François, fils's sons also married.  His older sons settled in Ascension Parish, but his younger ones remained on the southeastern bayous in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Three of his sons married Babin cousins who were sisters!

Second son Firmin Henri, by first wife Henriette Broussard, married cousin Renée or Rosalie Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in February 1830; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They remained in Ascension Parish on or near the river.  Their children, born there, included Henri Joseph in July 1831 but, called Henry Joseph, died at age 17 in August 1848; Henriette Dothilde born in April 1833 but, called Dotila, died in May 1865, age 32, 15 days before her mother died; Marie Adélaïde born in March 1835 but died the following October; Vincent Telesphore, called Telesphore, born in March 1836 but died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, at age 28 in April 1864 (one wonders if his death was war-related); François Dorville, called Dorville, born in February 1839; Marie Aimée in April 1841; Eugène Hilarion in October 1844 but died near Gonzales, age 21 (the recording priest said 18), in August 1865 (was Eugène Hilarion's death war-related?); and Jacques born in c1847 but died at age 3 in October 1850--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1831 and 1847.  Wife Rosalie died near Gonzales in May 1865.  The priest who recorded her burial said she died at "age 64 years, 9 months."  Evidently none of her and Firmin's children married by 1870. 

Third son François Dorville, called Dorville, seems to have served in Company D of the 14th Regiment Confederate Cavalry and Company A of Ogden's Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, raised in Ascension Parish, which fought in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama during the War of 1861-65.  Confederate records called him Dorvalle.  Did he survive the war and return to his family?  If he did, he did not marry by 1870. 

François, fils's third son François Maximilien, called Maximilien, from first wife Henriette Broussard, married cousin Adélaïde, another daughter of Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church in June 1836.  They remained in Ascension Parish.  Their children, born there, included Joseph Maximilien in March 1837; Marie Joséphine in September 1839; Henriette Séraphine in December 1841; Marie Madeleine in January 1843; Eve Rosalie in December 1849; and François Xavier in March 1854--six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1837 and 1854.  A Maximiliani Babin died near Gonzales in February 1864.  One wonders if this was François Maximilien.  If so, he would have been in his late 50s at the time of his death.  None his children seems to have married by 1870, at least not in South Louisiana. 

François, fils's fourth son Joseph Dorville, called Dorville, from second wife Marcellite Clouâtre, married cousin Rosalie Mathilde, called Mathilde, yet another daughter of Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Matilde Mélanie, called Mélanie, in November 1839; Joseph Treville in February 1843; and Adam Marc in April 1845--three children, a daughter and two sons, between 1839 and 1845.  Daughter Mélanie married into the Robichaux family by 1870.  Neither of Joseph Dorville's sons married by then. 

François, fils's fifth son Pierre Achille, called Achille, from second wife Marcellite Clouâtre, married Marie Angelina, called Angelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Ambroise Pitre and his Creole wife Rose Adélaïde Lirette, at the Thibodauxville church in May 1836.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Achille Pierre in February 1837; Olésime, also called Onésime Lloyd, James, and Lesin, in October 1838; Marie Zeluma in December 1840; Marie Emma, called Emma, in May 1845; Damase d'Orvil in Terrebonne Parish in August 1848; Joséphine in April 1851; Mathilde Eurelia in March 1854; and Rose Elvina in September 1858--eight children, three sons and five daughters, between 1837 and 1858.  Daughters Emma and Joséphine married into the Bonvillain and Babin families by 1870.  Two of Achille's sons also married by then. 

Oldest son Achille Pierre married Luvinia, daughter of Narcisse Marcel and Celestin Rhodes of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1859.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Graziane in January 1860; Éloise Euzelia in May 1862; ...

Achille's second son Onésime, also called James, married Elvire, daughter of fellow Acadian Léonard Crochet and his Creole wife Élise Pichoff, at the Houma church in December 1860.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Susanne inm August 1862; Adam Aubin in March 1864 but, called Adam, died at age 2 1/2 in November 1866; Urselia born in October 1866; Eve Cécilia in January 1870; ... 

François, fils's seventh son Élie Napoléon, called Napoléon, from second wife Marcellite Clouâtre, married double cousin Marie Sylvanise, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Babin and Céleste Babin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1847, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in March 1848.  Daughter Marie Clémentine was born near Houma in November 1847 and married into the Cadière family by 1870. 

François, fils's ninth and youngest son Jacques, by second wife Marcellite Clouâtre, married Marianne, daughter of Jacques Labit and his Acadian wife Henriette Roger, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in September 1853, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in June 1854.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Henriette, called Mary, in December 1853; Jacques Justilien in January 1855; François Eugène in November 1856; Marianne Jacqueline in September 1857; Franklina in September 1860; Jean Marie in November 1862; Surville Privat in October 1864 but, called Privat, died at age 3 (the recording priest said 2) in November 1867; Eve Laura born in March 1869; Eveline Mélasie in December 1870; ...  None of Jacques's children married by 1870. 

Firmin (c1747-1790s) à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Firmin, second son of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother and brothers to New Orleans and Fort San Luìs de Natchez, where he married Bibianne, another daughter of Amand Breau and Marie Landry, in January 1769; she was the sister of Firmin's older brother François-Marie's wife Hélène.  After the Acadians were allowed to leave Fort San Luìs, Firmin and Bibianne followed his family to Ascension on the Acadian Coast.  Their children, born on the river, included Paul-Firmin at Fort San Luìs in c1770; Marianne in the 1770s; Joseph-Bénoni, called Bénoni and Bélonie, at Ascension in January 1774; Pierre-Firmin, called Firmin, fils, in December 1775 but died at age 17 in October 1792; and Marie-Madeleine-Anastasie, called Anastasie, baptized at Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in February 1778.  Firmin remarried to Isabelle, daughter of Arche Brousse or Brusse and Isabelle ____, at Ascension in November 1781.  In January 1788, they were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension.  Their children, born there, included Simon-Théodore in December 1782; François le jeune in March 1785; Isabelle-Cécile baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1787; and Joseph-Toussaint in November 1789 but died at age 1 in September 1790--eight children, six sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1770 and 1790.  Firmin died at Ascension by January 1792, when his wife remarried there.  He would have been in his mid-40s that year.  Daughters Marianne, Anastasie, and Isabelle Cécile, from both wives, married into the Landry, Lavergne, Hébert, and Dugas families.  Four of Firmin's sons also married.  His two oldest sons settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but his younger sons remained on the river.  

Oldest son Paul-Firmin, by first wife Bibianne Breau, married Dorothée, daughter of Joseph Pichoff and Marguerite Bilique of the upper German Coast, at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in May 1802.  Their children, born there, included Marie-Susanne in April 1803; Michel Eugène, called Eugène, in May 1805; Marcellin in August 1808 but died at age 2 in October 1810; Paul Victorin, called Victorin, born in October 1811; Pierre Destival, called Destival, in February 1815; and Auguste Alexandre in February 1818--six children, a daughter and five sons, between 1803 and 1818.  Paul Firmin's daughter did not marry by 1870, if at all.  Four of his sons did marry by then.  One of his sons and a grandson "returned" to the river.  Another son and a grandson settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son Michel Eugène, called Eugène, married first cousin Marie Célesie, Céleste, or Célestin, called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, his uncle and aunt, and widow of Zénon LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1830; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included twins Marie Sylvanie and Joseph, but Joseph died five days after his birth in October 1830; Joseph Paul born in September 1832; Pierre Derosin, called Derosin, in February 1835; Marie Aspasie, called Aspasie, in January 1837; and Céleste Zoé in July 1839 but, called Marie Céleste Zoé, died at age 1 in May 1840--six children, three daughters and three sons, between 1830 and 1839.  Eugène may have died in Lafourche Parish in September 1853 "during [a] yellow fever epidemic."  If so, he would have been age 48 at the time of his death.  Daughters Marie Sylvanie and Aspasie married into the Babin and Villeneuve families by 1870.  One of Eugène's remaining sons also married by then. 

Third and youngest son Derosin left the upper Lafourche valley and married Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore, daughter of Norbert Villeneuve and his Acadian wife Marcellite Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1856.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their children, born there, included Eugène in September 1857; Alzide N. in July 1859; Bathilde in January 1863; Adam near Gonzales in June 1865; Ulger in February 1868; ...  

Paul Firmin's third son Paul Victorin, called Victorin, married Marie Marcelline or Marcellite Frosite, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Bergeron and his Creole wife Euphroisine Bellanger of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1833.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Mérante or Emérante Marie in April 1834; Susanne in April 1839; and Télesphore in September 1841--three children, two daughters and a son, between 1834 and 1841.  Daughters Emérante and Susanne married into the Agnelly and Lalonde families and settled in St. Landry Parish on the prairies.  Victorin's son also married but settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

During the War of 1861-65, only son Télesphore served in Company H of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He survived the war, returned to his family, and married Marguerite Paola, daughter of Alexis Jolet and Marie Azélie Falgout, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1866.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Jean Franklin in July 1868; Joseph Ferdinand in July 1870; ...

Paul Firmin's fourth son Pierre Destival, called Destival, married Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Angèle Landry and widow of Placide LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1844.  They remained on the river.  Son Blaise Félix was born in Ascension Parish in February 1847 and did not marry by 1870. 

Paul Firmin's fifth and youngest son Auguste Alexandre married Eléonore, another daughter of Alexandre Bergeron and Euphroisine Bellanger, at the Thibodaux church in May 1839.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Lufroy or Leufroi in February 1840; and Marie Eve in December 1841.  Auguste remarried to Félicité, also called Émelie, 19-year-old daughter of Jacques Bonvillain and his Acadian wife Émelie Crochet, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1849, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in June 1850.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Auguste Adams in April 1850; Émelia or Émelie Evelia in October 1851; Aimée Lexigna, evidently called Lovinia, in December 1853; and Edwin in May 1856--six children, three sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1840 and 1856.  Auguste, père died in Terrebonne Parish in July 1858, age 40.  Daughters Émelie and Lovinia, by his second wife, married into the Bacon or Baron and Lester families by 1870.  None of Auguste's sons married by then, at least not in South Louisiana. 

Firmin's second son Joseph-Bénoni, called Bénoni or Bélonie, from first wife Bibianne Breau, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc, at Ascension in July 1800.  They lived near the boundary between the Ascension and Valenzuela districts before moving down bayou.  Their children, born on the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Anne in April 1801; Marie-Silesia or Célesie, also called Célanie, in December 1802; Rosalie Reine, called Reine, in January 1805; Henriette Bibianne in June 1807; Joseph in October 1809 but evidently died in June 1833, age 23 (the recording priest, who called him Joseph Bélloni, said 19); Eugène le jeune born in January 1817; Valentine, a son, in April 1820; and Rosalie Mathilde in October 1822--eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1801 and 1822.  In the 1820s, they moved down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish, where their children also settled close to their cousins.  Joseph Bénoni died in Ascension Parish in December 1836.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Bénoni was age 75 when he died.  He was 62.  Daughters Célesie, Reine, and Mathilde married into the LeBlanc, Babin, and Lambert families, one of them, Célesie, three times.  Two of Joseph Bénoni's sons also married, but one of the lines may not have endured. 

Second son Eugène le jeune married Céleste, another daughter of Alexandre Bergeron and Euphroisine Bellanger, at the Thibodaux church in September 1838.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Joseph Alexandre in June 1839; Valentin le jeune in November 1841; Lufroid or Leufroi Homère in Terrebonne Parish in October 1847; and Eugène Adam in September 1854--four children, all sons, between 1839 and 1854.  Two of Eugène le jeune's sons married by 1870, one of them after his Confederate service. 

Oldest son Joseph Alexandre married Marie Elfreda or Elfrida, daughter of Auguste Chete, Echete, or Eschete and Héloise Bellanger of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church in January 1864.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Alida in November 1864; Ernest Leufroi in December 1866; François Xavier in April 1869; ... 

During the War of 1861-65, Eugène's second son Valentin le jeune served in Company E of the 1st (Dreux's/Rightor's) Battalion Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought in Virginia during the first year of the conflict.  Valentin married cousin Elvina, daughter of fellow Acadians Justin Hébert and Azélie Bergeron, at the Houma church in March 1863 after he returned from Virginia.  Their children, born in Terrebonne Parish, included Eugène Augustin in December 1864; Eugénie Aurelie in January 1867; Joseph Albert in November 1868; ... 

Bénoni's third and youngest son Valentine married Anne Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clouâtre and Marie Élisabeth Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church in June 1840.  One wonders if they had any children, at least any who survived childhood. 

Firmin's fourth son Simon Théodore, by second wife Isabelle Brousse, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marie Babin, at Ascension in February 1805.  Their children, born there, included Raphaël Simon or Simon Raphaël in September 1806 but died at age 2 in July 1809; Madeleine Clothilde born in October 1809; and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in October 1811.  Simon Théodore remarried to cousin Henriette, also called Sidalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Olide LeBlanc and widow of Firmin Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1815.  Their children, born at Ascension, included Ursule Delphine in March 1816 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1819; Marie Aureline born in February 1818 but died at age 29 (the recording priest said 30) in December 1847; Marie Hélène in August 1819 but died at age 2 in September 1821; Mathilde born in October 1821; François Gédéon, called Gédéon, in October 1824; and Marie Alzida in the 1820s--nine children, three sons and six daughters, by two wives, between 1806 and 1820s.  Simon Théodore died in Ascension Parish in November 1842.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon died at "age 66 yrs."  He was 59.  Daughters Madeleine Clothilde, Mathilde, and Marie Alzida, by both wives, married into the Landry, Lamare or Lamarre, and Babin families.  Simon Théodore's remaining son also married. 

Third and youngest son son François Gédéon, called Gédéon, from second wife Henriette Babin, married fellow Acadian Clémence Guidry probably in Ascension Parish in the late 1840s.  Their children, born in Ascension Parish, included Marine Eliska in March 1850; François Numa in April 1851; Albert Séverin in October 1853; Pierre Dorza in December 1855; and Alexandre in March 1858--five children, a daughter and four sons, between 1850 and 1858.  None of Gédéon's children married by 1870. 

Firmin's fifth son François le jeune, by second wife Isabelle Brousse, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breaux and Monique Guidry, at the St. Gabriel church in October 1813.  Their children, born near St. Gabriel, included Marie Euphèmise in September 1815; Marie Elmire in November 1816; an infant, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in August 1818; Joseph Pierre born in June 1819; Simon Missael or Marcellus, called Marcellus, in January 1823; Henri Dreville or Treville in March 1825 but died at age 3 in July 1828; and Madeleine died at age 3 months in May 1827--seven children, at least three daughters and three sons, between 1815 and 1827.  François le jeune died near St. Gabriel in June 1835.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents'  names or mention a wife, said that François was age 45 when he died.  He was 50.  Neither of his remaining daughters married by 1870, if they married at all.  Only one of his remaining sons married by then and remained on the river.

Second son Simon Missaël or Marcellus, called Marcellus, married Marie Amenaïde, called Amenaïde, daughter of Alexandre Reine and Marguerite Poché, at the St. Gabriel church in June 1841.  They lived on the river near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their children, born there, included Adélaïde in May 1843; Joseph, also called Joseph Marcellus, in February 1845; Louisa Émeline in September 1846; Marguerite Laura Laurent in January 1851 but, called Laurent, died at age 1 1/2 in April 1852; Marie Aloisia born in 1854; Joséphine[sic] Calixte, a son, in October 1859; Marie Eve near Gonzales in February 1865; ...  None of Marcellus's daughters married by 1870, but one of his sons did. 

Oldest son Joseph Marcellus married Marie Lezida, called Nizida, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Breaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in February 1869.  Their son Pierre Amilcar was born near Gonzales in August 1870; ...

Charles (c1750-1773? 1779?) à Vincent à Antoine Babin

Charles, third and youngest son of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother and older brothers to Fort San Luìs de Natchez and Ascension.  He may have been the Charles Babin who died, probably from drowning, in June 1774, or the Charles Babin who died at Ascension in December 1779. The priest who recorded the 1779 burial did not give Charles's age or his parents' names, nor did he mention a wife. 

Olivier (c1750-?) à ? à Antoine Babin

Olivier Babin, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family or relatives to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He came to Louisiana from Maryland in February 1768 as an 18-year-old orphan with the family of Pierre Guédry, followed his fellow exiles to Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and resettled with some of them downriver at San Gabriel, where he married fellow Acadian Marie Breau, date unrecorded.  Marie gave Olivier at least two sons on the river:  Jacques at New Orleans in February 1770; and Jean-Baptiste-Olivier at San Gabriel in March 1773.  One wonders if the family line endured.

Younger son Jean Baptiste Olivier may have been the Jean Baptiste Babin, "widower," who died in Terrebonne Parish in January 1850, age 77.  Jean Baptiste Olivier would have been exactly that age that year.  If this was him, who had he married, and who were his children, if he had any?

Mathurin (c1756-?) à ? à Antoine Babin

Mathurin Babin, born in Maryland in c1756, came to Louisiana in February 1768 as a 12-year-old orphan with his younger sister Anne and the family of kinsman Francois-Marie Babin.  He followed them to Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  If he survived childhood, there is no evidence in local church and civil records that he created his own family. 

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Another young Babin came to Louisiana from Maryland during the late 1760s, but no new family line came of it:

Étienne (c1754-?) à ? à Antoine Babin

Étienne Babin, born probably at Minas in c1754, came to Louisiana by March 1777, when Spanish officials counted him on the "left bank ascending" at San Gabriel.  He was age 23 and still a bachelor.  One wonders what became of him. 

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Five more Babins came to Louisiana aboard three, perhaps four, of the Seven Ships from France in 1785.  Two of them, a sister and brother, crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in late July.  They settled first on the river before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the sister remarried and the brother created a new center of Babin family settlement: 

François-Marie (c1766-1810s) à Jean à Charles à Antoine Babin

François-Marie, younger son of Simon Babin and his first wife Anastasie Thériot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in November 1766, followed his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773 and his widowed father and siblings to the lower Loire port of Nantes in November 1775.  His father, a sailor, died at sea in October 1780, when François-Marie was in his early teens.  He came to Louisiana with his older sister Marie, her husband Louis-William Stebens, and their three children and followed them to Manchac, on the river below Baton Rouge, where, at age 21, he married Marie-Anne, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Ignace Usé and his second wife Cécile Bourg, in December 1786.  Marie-Anne, also a native of St.-Servan, like François-Marie had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, so they may have known one another since childhood.  They were still living at Manchac in July 1788, but, soon after, they joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, the first Babin family to settle there.  Their children, born on the river and the upper Lafourche, included Marie-Madeleine, called Marie, at Manchac in October 1787; Anne-Émelie dite Milite in December 1789; François-Auguste, called Auguste and Augustin, at Ascension in January 1792; Marie-Scholastique, called Scholastique, at Assumption on the upper bayou in February 1793; Jean-Baptiste in July 1797; François, fils in October 1799; and Raphaël-Édouard, called Édouard, in January 1803--seven children, three daughters and four sons, between 1787 and 1803.  François-Marie's succession inventory and inventory of propery--which mentioned children Marie, then age 29 and nine years married; Émilie dite Milite, age 26 and six years married; Auguste, age 24; Scholastique, age 23 and several months married; Jean Baptiste, age 19; François, fils, age 16; and Édouard, age 13--was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1816.  François Marie would have been age 50 that year.  Daughters Marie, Milite, and Scholastique married into the Comte or Lecompte, Robichaux, and Toups families, two of them, Marie and Scholastique, to the same man, Eugène Toups.  Three of François Marie's sons also married on the Lafourche.  Some of his grandsons settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Oldest son François Auguste, called Auguste and Augustin, at age 30, married Justine, 22-year-old daughter of André Toups and Marie Dervin and widow of Charles Rome, at the Thibodauxville church in February 1822.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Marie Justine, called Justine, in July 1822; Éliza in c1824, Toussaint Marcellin in November 1825; Scholastique in April 1828; Auguste, fils in December 1830; Séraphine in March 1832; Marceline in March 1834; Justin in February 1837; Amédée in March 1838; and Aurelie in February 1841--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1822 and 1841.  Daughters Éliza, Justine, Scholastique, and Marceline married into the Pertuit, Robichaux, Martin, and Grabert families.  François Auguste's sons also married on the Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Toussaint Marcellin married Carmélite Grabert probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1840s.  Their children, born in Lafourche Interior Parish, included Auguste le jeune in May 1847; and Anasthasie in April 1849.  Toussaint remarried to Marie Ernestine, called Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Melicère Bourgeois, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1854.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Eulalie Uranie in October 1855; Marie Phroisine in July 1858; Pierre Froisin in November 1862; Joseph baptized at Raceland, age unrecorded, in January 1865 but died the following day; Marie Meloe born in February 1867; Joseph Melous in July 1869; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Toussaint served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia and, along with most of his unit, was captured at Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish in late October 1862; he was a month shy of age 37.  The Federals released him in early November, and he returned to his family, perhaps in time to witness the birth of one of his sons.  None of Toussaint's children married by 1870. 

Auguste's second son Auguste, fils married Émelia, daughter of Léonce Walker and Aimée Price, at the Raceland church in March 1855.  Auguste, fils died near Raceland the following July, age 24.  His line of the family evidently died with him. 

Auguste, père's third son Justin married Alexina, daughter of Hippolyte Laneuville and Anaïs Texier, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1866.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Robert died at age 2 months in September 1866[sic]; Justine Alida born in November 1866[sic]; Richard in September 1869; ...

Auguste, père's fourth and youngest son Amédée married French Creole Julie Zulma or Zulema Folse in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in November 1858.  Their children, born near Raceland, included Marie Amanda in October 1859; Marie Catherine in October 1861 but died at age 3 1/2 in May 1865; Palmire born in October 1863; Amédée, fils in December 1865; Marguerite Ofelia in April 1868; Julie in October 1870; ...  During the War of 1861-65, Amédée may have served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia with brother Toussaint.  If so, he, too, was released by the Federals after most of his unit was captured at Labadieville in October 1862 and returned to his family.

François-Marie's second son Jean-Baptiste married Marie Aglaé, called Aglaé, 21-year-old daughter of Pierre Gisclard and Françoise Mayer, at the Thibodauxville church in November 1828.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Jean Baptiste, fils in September 1829; and François le jeune in July 1832.  Both of Jean Baptiste's sons married and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Older son Jean Baptiste, fils married Roseline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin LeBlanc and Marie Lejeune, at the Thibodaux church in August 1854; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  Their children, born on the Lafourche and in Terrebonne Parish, included Marie Camelia in Terrebonne Parish in May 1855; Clémence Aglaé in March 1857; Jean Baptiste III in Lafourche Parish in December 1858; Esilda Emma in April 1860; François in c1860 or 1861 but died at age 3 in April 1864; Joseph Collin born in October 1861; Joséphine Lovencie, probably theirs, in October 1866; Léo Joseph near Montegut, in the coastal marshes of Terrebonne Parish, in March 1870; ...  None of Jean Baptiste, fils's children married by 1870. 

Jean Baptistes's younger son François le jeune married Rosa, daughter of François Picou and his Acadian wife Irma Aucoin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in April 1854.  They settled near Montegut.  Their children, born there, included Anatole in July 1855; Justine Odillia in March 1857; Célestine Aglaé in January 1859; Jean Baptiste Arthur in August 1860; Théophile Gustave in October 1862; Augustin Henri in September 1864; Laurina Marie Malvina in October 1866; Joseph Edwin in August 1868; François Hamilton in October 1870; ...  None of François le jeune's children married by 1870. 

François-Marie's third son François, fils married Élise Euphrosine dite Frosine, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Martin and his Creole wife Marie Charpentier, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1821, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodauxville church the following February.  Their children, born on the Lafourche, included Joseph François in January 1822; twins Euphrosine Séraphine and Louis in November 1823; Édouard in February 1827; and Guillaume or William Marcelin in March 1829--five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1822 and 1829.  François, fils's daughter did not marry, at least not by 1870, and only one of his sons seems to have done so. 

François, fils's fourth and youngest son Guillaume or William may have married Victoria Ordalie ____, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Joseph William was born near Lockport, Lafourche Parish, in January 1864; ...   

François-Marie's fourth and youngest son Raphaël Édouard may have been the Édouard Babin of Ascension Parish who "drowned in [the] Mississippi River" in May 1845 and was buried near Convent, St. James Parish.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Édouard was age 43 when he died but did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  Raphaël Édouard would have been age 42. 

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An older brother of François-Marie Babin of Le Bon Papa came to Louisiana from France aboard L'Amitité, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early November 1785.  He settled at Baton Rouge near his kin before moving on to Bayou Lafourche, but his many children remained on the river:  

Magloire-Simon or Simon-Magloire (1762-c1833) à Jean à Charles à Antoine Babin

Magloire-Simon or Simon-Magloire, called Simon, fils, older son of Simon Babin and his first wife Anastasie Thériot, born in England in January 1762, was repatriated with his family to St.-Malo, France, aboard the Dorothée in May 1763.  He settled with them in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, followed them to Poitou in 1773, and to the lower Loire port of Nantes in 1775.  Simon,  fils came to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, perhaps as a stowaway, and joined his siblings at Manchac, where he married Marie-Jeanne-Perrine-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Lejeune and his first wife Marie Carret, in June 1787.  Marie-Madeleine, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Servan, had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa.  She gave Simon, fils no children, or none who survived infancy.  He remarried to Anne-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Quimine and his first wife Marie-Louise Grossin, at Manchac in December 1789.  Anne, a native of Paramé near St.-Servan, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa.  Their children, born on the river, included Auguste or Augustin at Manchac in the early 1790s; Placide in November 1793; Paul-Joachim in February 1796; Eusilien, also called Louis, in February 1798; and Modeste probably in the early 1800s--five children, four sons and a daughter, by one of two wives, between 1790 and the early 1800s.  In the early 1800s, Simon, fils and Anne moved to Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 60, he remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Achée and Anne Boudreaux and widow of François Sevin, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1822.  Marie-Jeanne, also native of St.-Servan, had also come to Louisiana on Le Bon Papa.  She evidently gave Simon, fils no more children.  His succession inventory was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in January 1833.  The parish clerk who recorded the succession noted that Simon, fils was age 56 at the time of the filing.  He was closer to 71.  Daughter Modeste, by his second wife, married into the Daigre family.  All four of Simon's sons married and remained on the river, in Iberville, East Baton Rouge, and West Baton Rouge parishes, but not all of the lines endured.  

Oldest son Auguste or Augustin, by second wife Anne Louise Quimine, married fellow Acadian Théotiste Templet probably at Manchac in the early 1810s.  Their children, born there, included Marie Pauline, called Pauline, in August 1812; and Treville in February 1814.  Daughter Pauline married into the Labadiole family.  Augustin's son also married. 

Only son Treville married Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore and Léonore, daughter of Valéry Bergeron, a Creole not a fellow Acadian, and Marie Madeleine Prosper, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1836.  They settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, and may have moved to southeastern Pointe Coupee Parish after the War of 1861-65.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Marie Aurore, called Aurore, in October 1836; Léon Treville in March 1840; Treville, fils in July 1846; Alfonse or Alphonse in April 1849; Marie Aloysia in November 1851 but, called Aloysia, died at age 1 1/2 (the recording priest said 3) in September 1853, victim, perhaps, of the yellow fever epidemic that struck South Louisiana that summer and fall; Auguste Villeray or Valéry born in July 1853; Louis Martial in July 1855; and Marie Louise in February 1858--eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1836 and 1858.  Daughter Aurore married into the Eckles and Simoneaux families by 1870.  None of Treville's sons married by then. 

Simon,  fils's second son Placide, by second wife Anne Louise Quimine, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean André Grégoire Marie Templet and Marie Doiron of Baton Rouge, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1816.  Their children, born on the river, included Florentin probably in the late 1810s; Valsin Derosin, called Derosin, baptized, age unrecorded, in March 1824; Apolline Trohile or Trosile, called Trosile, born in February 1826; and Marie Alzire, called Alzire, in January 1828--four children, two sons and two daughters, between the late 1810s and 1828.  Daughters Alzire and Trosile married into the Doiron and Hébert families.  Both of Placide's sons married, but not all of the family lines endured. 

Older son Florentin married Cerasine, daughter of Louis Terence DeRichebourg and his Acadian wife Mathilde Granger, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1847.  One wonders if they had any children, at least any who survived childhood.

Placide's younger son Valsin Derosin, called Derosin, married Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie Hyacinthe Lejeune and his Creole wife Eléonore Aillet, at the Brusly church in January 1861. 

Simon,  fils's third son Paul Joachim, by second wife Anne Louise Quimine, married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Lejeune and Marie Doiron, at the St. Gabriel church in September 1817.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their children, born there, included Pauline, perhaps also called Williamine Octavine, in April 1818; Hermogène or Armogène, in late 1819 and baptized at age 8 months in May 1820; Philogène born in November 1822; Antoine Coriolan or Coriolas in June 1824; Charlotte Octavine in July 1826; Séverine in October 1828; Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, in November 1830; Auguste in February 1834; and Paulin probably in the 1830s--nine children, three daughters and six sons, between 1818 and the 1830s.  Paul Joachim died near Brusly in September 1853, age 57 (the recording priest, who gave no parents' names or mention a wife, said 58).  Daughter Williamine Octavine married into the Foret family.  Four of Paul Joachim's sons also married. 

Oldest son Hermogène or Armogène married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Dorville Landry and Aureline Daigle of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church in February 1844.  He worked as an overseer in West Baton Rouge Parish.  His and Célestine children, born near Brusly, included M., perhaps Marie, Amanda, called Amanda, in c1844; and Jean Armond or Armand, called Armand, in April 1846.  Wife Célestine died before August 1850, when Hermogène was counted in the West Baton Rouge federal census with only their two children.  Armogène remarried to Marie Célestine, called Célestine, daughter of Foreign Frenchman Pierre Gassie and his Creole wife Elmire Marson, at the Brusly church in October 1851.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Élisabeth Anne in July 1852; Marie Caroline in August 1853 but, called Caroline, died at age 2 in October 1855; Samuel David, called David and Dave, born in December 1854; Marie Elmire in December 1856; Paul Émile in June 1858; Jean Homère in June 1859; and Pierre Olivier in November 1861--nine children, four daughters and five sons, by two wives, between 1844 and 1861.  In his late 40s, Armogène remarried again--his third marriage--to Adolphine, daughter of Isaac Gibson and his Acadian wife Euphrosie Templet and widow of Thomas C. White, at the Brusly church in May 1867.  Daughter M. Amanda, by his first wife, married into the Hébert family by 1870.  None of Armogène's sons married by then. 

Paul Joachim's third son Antoine Coriolan or Coriolas married Gertrude Ernestine, called Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Dupuy, fils and Eugènie Hébert, at the Brusly church in February 1852.  Their children, born near Brusly, included Paul Louis Hotaire in July 1853; Ophelia Lucette in January 1855; Marie Odillia in November 1856; Anne Célestine in September 1859; and Laurent Émile in August 1860--five children, two sons and three daughters, between 1853 and 1860.  None of Antoine's children married by 1870. 

Paul Joachim's fourth son Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, married Amelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Landry and Henriette Hébert and widow of Aristide Hébert and Maximilien Trosclair, at the Brusly church in February 1860.  Did they have any children? 

Paul Joachim's sixth son Paulin married Élodie, daughter of Jean Alexandrie and his Acadian wife Emerante Foret, at the Brusly church in January 1861. ...

Simon,  fils's fourth and youngest son Eusilien, also called Louis, from second wife Anne Louise Quimine, married Marie Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doiron, fils and Rosalie Bourg of West Baton Rouge Parish, probably in Iberville Parish in the late 1810s.  Their daughter Marie Carmélite was born in Iberville Parish in July 1819 and did not marry by 1870, so this line of the family evidently did not endure. 

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An aging Babin bachelor came to Louisiana from France aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in early December 1785, but no new family line came of it. 

Paul (c1732-?) à Vincent? à Antoine Babin

Paul, son of perhaps Pierre Babin and Marie Landry, born perhaps at Minas in c1733, was deported from one of the French Maritimes islands to St.-Malo, France, in 1758 and settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of the Breton port.  He may have been the Paul Babin who embarked on corsair duty aboard Le Tigre in 1761, was captured by the British, released in 1763 at war's end, returned to Pleudihen-sur-Rance, sailed from France to the Falkland Islands aboard L'Aigle in November 1765, and returned to France.  In 1785, in his early 50s, still unmarried, he sailed with the family of his widowed brother-in-law René Landry from St.-Malo to New Orleans and followed them to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  He probably never married.  

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Another Babin came to Louisiana from France in 1785 but appears on none of the passenger rolls of the Seven Ships expeditions.  No new family line came of it:

Bonaventure (1759-1815) à Jean à Claude à Charles à Antoine Babin

Bonaventure, son of Joseph Babin and Marine LeBlanc of Minas, born at Southampton, England, in November 1759, followed his family to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  He lived with them in the suburb St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1763 to 1765, followed them to Belle-Île-en-Mer in late 1765, and lived with them at Loqueltas near Sauzon on the north end of the island until 1773, when he returned with his family to St.-Servan.  Bonaventure's family returned to North America in the late 1770s or early 1780s and settled on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Bonaventure, who would have been in his late teens or early 20s when his family left for Île St.-Pierre, evidently remained in France, but he did not finish his days there.  Though he appears on none of the passenger rolls of the Seven Ships' expeditions, he likely followed hundreds of his fellow exiles to Louisiana in 1785, when he would have been age 26, unless he had become a sailor in his late teens and came to Louisiana on his own in the early or mid-1780s.  What is certain is that in November 1788, a month before Joseph Gravois's La Brigite reached Louisiana from Île St.-Pierre carrying widow Marine LeBlanc and five of her Babin children, a Bonaventure Babin married Félicité, 38-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and his first wife Marie Thériot and widow of Charles Melançon, at Ascension on the Acadian Coast.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the groom's parents' names, but the groom likely was Bonaventure of England and France, who would have been age 29 at the time of his marriage.  One suspects that he had somehow communicated with his mother on faraway Île St.-Pierre after he reached Louisiana and that his being there was her motivation to risk the long voyage from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico.  Félicité gave Bonaventure three children on the river:  Casimir at Ascension in September 1789; Valéry in December 1791 but died at age 7 months the following August; and Félicité at nearby Cabahannocer in November 1795 but died at age 5 in January 1801.  The childrens' baptismal and burial records, as transcribed by the Diocese of Baton Rouge, do not give the father's parents' names.  The baptismal records of the older son and the daughter, however, say their godfathers were Moyses, probably Pierre-Moïse, and Maturin, probably Mathurin-Louis, sons of Joseph Babin and Marine LeBlanc and younger brothers of the Bonaventure Babin born in England.  Wife Félicité died at Cabahannocer/St. James in May 1807, in her late 50s.  Louisiana church records reveal that a Bonaventure Babin died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, on the river above Ascension in May 1815, age 65.  Bonaventure à Joseph would have been age 55 at the time, so one wonders if the St. Gabriel priest recorded the wrong age, or if this was another fellow.  One of Bonaventure's sons did not survive childhood, and the other, like his siblings, may have died young, so not even the blood of this branch of the family endured in the Bayou State.  

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The last large group of Babins to come to Louisiana--six of them--did so in a unique way.  During exile, Marine LeBlanc, wife of Joseph Babin of Grand-Pré, became a widow either in France or after her family returned to greater Acadia.  In 1788, Marine, now age 52, and five of her children were living on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Joseph Gravois of Chignecto, probably a kinsman, was captain of the schooner La Brigite.  Marine and five of her Babin children--Marie-Victoire, age 25; François-Laurent, age 22; Pierre-Moïse, called Moïse, age 20; Anne-Marguerite, age 18; and Mathurin-Louis, age 15--along with Marine's uncle Charles Babin, age unrecorded, agreed to accompany Gravois and his family to Louisiana aboard La Brigite, which reached New Orleans in December 1788--the only group of Acadians to travel directly from greater Acadia to Louisiana, and some of the last Acadians to reach the colony.  Anne-Marguerite Babin married Valentin-Désiré, son of fellow Acadians Amand Richard and Marie Breaux and widower of Susanne Marique, at Cabahannocer in July.  One wonders why none of the three brothers who traveled with her married and created families of their own. 

Babineaux

Nicolas Babineau dit Des Lauriers, born in France in c1653, came to Acadia probably as a soldier.  At one time or other he was a fur trader or a fisherman.  He married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Laurent Granger and Marie Landry, in c1687 probably at Port-Royal.  They were counted at Pentagöuet, present-day coastal Maine, in 1693 during King William's War but returned to Port-Royal by July 1701.  Soon after, they purchased from Martin Bourg, who had moved on to the new Acadian settlement at Cobeguit, a homestead along Rivière-au-Dauphin, now the Annapolis River, "on the estate of the late M. d'Entremont," below and across from the port.  A map of the river basin, dated 1707, shows Nicolas's homestead lying at the head of a large marsh at a place called Les Coriers, between the homesteads of Bernard and Abraham Bourg and not far from the homes of his brothers-in-law Claude and René Granger and his mother-in-law, the widow Granger.  Between the late 1680s and 1709, Marie-Marguerite gave Nicolas six children, four sons and two daughters, all of whom married.  Marie-Marguerite died at Annapolis Royal in April 1719, age 51.  Nicolas did not remarry.  He died probably at Annapolis Royal before November 1723, in his 60s.  His daughters married into the Savoie and Forest families.  His sons married into the Savoie, Bourg, Dugas, and Breau families.  Most of his sons remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and raised large families.  The youngest son settled in the Minas Basin before moving on to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  But that was the extent of their wandering.  The Babineaus--including Nicolas's younger brother Jean, who married a Boudrot and had two daughters but no sons--were among the few Acadian families in the Fundy settlements whose members did not move on to the French Maritimes.  None of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana.  At least five of Nicolas's descendants did. 

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the winds.  Some of Nicolas's descendants were rounded up at Annapolis Royal and deported to New England, but most of them eluded the British and escaped to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or moved on to Canada.  The Babineaus at Petitcoudiac also eluded the British in 1755 and retreated to Cocagne, farther up the shore.  One family continued on to Canada, where they joined their cousins on the upper St. Lawrence at Bécancour, Pointe-du-Lac, and St.-Grégoire and Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières.  Another family returned to the Petitcoudiac, perhaps to join the Acadian resistance there, and either surrrendered to, or were captured by, the British in the early 1760s and held in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, not far from their former homes.  At war's end, members of the family being held in the region chose to remain in greater Acadia.  They settled at Bouctouche, Richibouctou, and St.-Louis-de-Kent on the Gulf shore in present-day eastern New Brunswick.  Others settled at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, a British-controlled fishery.  A cousin took a different route to Canada.  At age 30, he had married into the Bourg family on the eve of deportation.  The British deported the newlyweds to New England the autumn after their marriage.  The wife died in one of the New-English colonies by May 1759, when the Babineau cousin remarried into the Michel family.  After the war, they chose to join their kinsmen in Canada and settled at Beauport near Québec City.  The cousin drowned at Beauport in December 1775, age 50.  Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed. 

The Babineaus deported to New England included two sisters who preferred the surname Des Lauriers.  One of them, Marie-Marguerite, married a Comeau probably in Connecticut in c1758.  The couple, along with their parents, were among the minority of refugees from Connecticut who went not to Canada, where the British ruled, but to French St.-Domingue, where they did not, in the early 1760s.  The Des Lauriers's sister's marriage was blessed at Mirebalais in the island's interior near Port-au-Prince in September 1764, where French officials had sent them to work on cofee and indigo plantations.  Their children were baptized there that same month, but one of them died on the day of his baptism.  Another son, a twin, died at age 5 in October.  The couple had another son at Mirebalais in November 1766 who did not survive infancy.  Meanwhile, her Babineau father died at Mirebalais in January 1765, age 65. 

Before Le Grand Dérangement, Louis-Charles, called Charles, son of Clément Babineau of Annapolis Royal, married a Doucet.  She died either before or during exile, leaving him with four children, all born at Annapolis Royal.  Charles and his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed the bay to Chepoudy the following spring, and took refuge on the upper Petitcoudiac before moving on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the end of the decade, they had taken refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Charles remarried to Anne Guilbeau, also of Annapolis Royal, in February 1760.  Late that June, after the fall of Québec the previous September, a naval force from Louisbourg attacked Restigouche.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to prevent a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to their base at Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche, including Charles Babineau and his famiy of three.  The British held them and other Acadians captured or surrendered in the region at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, where a son was born in c1761.  The family appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Only their two-year-old son was still with them, so Charles's children by his first wife, who would have been ages 18, 17, 14 and 10 in 1763, either had died in exile or, like daughter Anne-Marie, who went to French St.-Domingue, had gone off on their own.  Anne Guilbeau gave Charles another son in the prison compound at Halifax in 1764. 

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

Charles and his two sons were only the first of the Babineaus to go to Louisiana.  In late 1766 or 1767, after their father's death, two Babineau dit Des Lauriers sisters, along with the older sister's husband and their daughter, left Mirebalais, French St.-Domingue, and made their way to New Orleans--among the few Acadian refugees who emigrated to the Spanish colony directly from the French Antilles.  They settled on the river above the city. 

Charles, called "Grand Louis" in Louisiana, his second wife, and two young sons, reached New Orleans in February 1765 with the Broussards, who were kin from Charles's first marriage.  That spring, Charles and his family followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche and survived the mysterious epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Anne gave Charles two more sons not long after they settled on Bayou Teche.  From these four sons sprang the Babineaux clan of southwest Louisiana.  Emulating the family's settlement pattern in Acadie, none of Charles's sons, grandsons, or even great-grandsons moved from the prairies to other Acadian settlements on the river or in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley before the War of 1861-65.  Instead, they remained on the Attakapas and Opelousas prairies west of the Atchafalaya Basin well into the twentieth century.  (The only Acadian Babineauxs on the river, in fact, were the two sisters from St.-Domingue who preferred the surname Des Lauriers, not Babineaux.)  During the antebellum period, some of Charles dit Grand Louis's descendants fanned out from the Teche valley into the nearby prairies, one of them moving westward to Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé and on to the Mermentau River valley before drifting even farther west into the Calcasieu country.  Another lived along Bayou Queue de Tortue on the prairie south of present-day Rayne, at the southwestern edge of the old Attakapas District.  Others moved up and down the Teche from their ancestor's homestead at La Pointe, near present-day Breaux Bridge, as far north as Arnaudville and as far south as New Iberia.  

Judging by the number of slaves Babineauxs held during the late antebellum period, some of them lived comfortably on their farms, plantations, and vacheries on the southwest parishes.  In 1850, Joseph David, son of David Babineaux, owned 48 slaves on his plantation along the upper Teche; 10 years later he still held 37 slaves.  His St. Martin Parish cousins, descendants of Théodore Babineaux, owned only a hand full of slaves in 1850 and do not appear on the 1860 federal slave schedules.  Some of the Babineaux cousins in Lafayette Parish also held slaves, though none of them owned as many as Joseph David.  In 1850, François, son of Joseph, père, held 18 slaves on his farm along Bayou Queue de Tortue on the western edge of the parish.  Older brother Joseph, fils at Carencro held 12 slaves in 1850 and 15 in 1860.  Cousin Charles at Carencro owned eight slaves in 1850, and Charles's nephew Edmond held three slaves at Carencro that year.  Charles owned only six slaves in 1860.  His son Onésime, whose farm was next to his, also held six slaves in 1860, and Charles's older son Achilles owned a single slave on his farm in St. Landry Parish on the eve of war.  Many members of the family held no slaves at all, at least none who appeared on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860.

At least 17 Babineauxs served Louisiana and Texas in uniform during the War of 1861-65, and the war took the lives of at least four members of the family, three of them in the same company.  In March 1862, cousins Athanase, Belisaire, Charles V., Émilien, and Théodore Babineaux enlisted in Company A of the 26th Louisiana Regiment Infantry--the "Lafayette Prairie Boys''--at Vermilionville, the seat of Lafayette Parish.  After the fall of New Orleans in April, Confederate authorities sent the 26th Louisiana to Mississippi.  Théodore was the first of the Babineaux cousins to die.  He fell ill and died at Masonic Hall, Vicksburg, in June 1862.  The next month, cousin Athanase died probably of disease at Mississippi Springs.  Charles V. died at Vicksburg the following December.  Only Bélisaire and Émilien remained among the Babineaux cousins when the regiment fought at Chickasaw Bluffs in late December 1862 and in the Siege of Vicksburg the following spring and summer.  They surrendered at Vicksburg with the remnants of the regiment on 4 July 1863, returned home as parolees, reported to a parole camp at Alexandria, Louisiana, in early summer 1864, were exchanged the following August, and returned home from the war in late spring of 1865.  Another Babineaux cousin died in Confederate service, but not from disease.  In late winter of 1862, Louis Desincourt, called Desincourt, joined the "DeClouet Guards," an elite militia company raised in St. Martin and St. Mary parishes that became Company D of the Orleans Guard Battalion Louisiana Infantry.  The battalion mustered into Confederate service for 90 days in early March 1862.  Confederate authorities sent the unit to Corinth, Mississippi, to reinforce the command of Louisiana native General P. G. T. Beauregard.  The Orleans Battalion fought in the first truly bloody battle of the war, at Shiloh, Tennessee, in early April 1862.  On the first day of battle, the Orleans Guard lost heavily in the massive Confederate assault against Federal General Ulysses S. Grant's army at Pittsburg Landing.  The Guard's blue militia uniforms proved to be especially troublesome; their fellow Confederates fired on them in the confusion of battle.  When the battalion's loses were tallied after the second day of fighting, it had lost a frightful 17 killed, 55 wounded, and 18 missing.  Among the wounded was Desincourt Babineaux, who may have been sent home to recuperate.  Desincourt's wound proved mortal; he died in late July 1862, age 22.  A dozen other Babineauxs served the Southern Confederacy in uniform, most of them honorably.  One Louisiana Babineaux even served in a Texas cavalry unit.  When the war began, Wilmont, son of Alexandre Babineaux of Carencro, was living in Calcasieu Parish, west of the Mermentau River.  As a war historian notes:  "On several occasions during 1863 and 1864, Texas Confederate troops moved into southwestern Louisiana. These soldiers entered the state to collect supplies or to assist in protecting the area from Union invasion. While performing these tasks, the Texans took advantage of their situation to recruit local men into their military units. One unit that enlisted a sizeable number of Louisianians was Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Daly’s Texas Cavalry Battalion (later commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Samuel G. Ragsdale). Some of the Louisianians had served previously in units from their own state, while others were enlisting for the first time."  Wilmont Babineaux joined Company A of Daly's Battalion.  

During the war, Federal armies marched three times through the Teche and upper Vermilion valleys, including the Bayou Carencro area, and burned and pillaged many farms and plantations, some of them no doubt owned by Babineauxs.  Thanks to these Federal incursions, emancipation came early to the area, with its resulting economic and social turmoil.  Confederate foraging parties and cutthroat Jayhawkers also plagued the area where Babineauxs lived, adding to the family's misery.  

After the war, seeking new opportunities in a free-labor Southern economy, especially as part of the Louisiana rice and petroleum industries, a few more Babineauxs moved farther west across the southwestern prairies, especially to the burgeoning city of Lake Charles, and, in the early twentieth century, on into East Texas.  A few moved east to Baton Rouge or southeast to New Orleans, where they helped to add an Acadian flare to that unique urban culture.  After World War II, as a result of military service and job opportunities in a material economy that Cajuns inevitably embraced, Babineauxs became part of a new Acadian diaspora and moved to every corner of the United States.  According to a recent study of Louisiana families with French and Spanish surnames, however, most of them remained where their immigrant ancestors had settled, in St. Martin, Iberia, and especially Lafayette Parish.  One of the most prominent Cajuns of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries came from the Teche valley branch of the family.  Former Louisiana governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of New Iberia is a direct descendant of "Grand Louis" of La Pointe (and one of the author's distant cousins). 

In Louisiana, the family's name also is spelled Babinau, Babineau, Babinos, Babinot, Bobino.75

The Acadian Babineauxs of South Louisiana are descended from an exile who was among the earliest Acadians to settle there: