APPENDICES

Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

BABIN

[bah-BANH,  BAB-in]

ACADIA

Antoine Babin, a farmer perhaps from La Chaussée south of the Loire in the region of Loudun, 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 Françoise remarried to Daniel LeBlanc and became the matriarch of that prolific 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, Antoine gave her 11 children.  Their seven daughters married into the Rimbault, Landry, Richard dit Sansoucy, Doucet, Breau, Comeau, Doiron, Benoit, Martin, Sauneuf, and Pitre families.   Three of their four sons, all born at Port-Royal, created families of their own.  All of them settled in the Minas Basin, and one of them moved on to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island.    

Oldest son Charles, born in c1664, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Richard dit Sansoucy and Madeleine Blanchard, at Port-Royal in c1686.  He fathered 12 children, including six sons who married into the Gautrot, Bourg, Dupuis, Thériot, Landry, and Melanson families.  His daughters married into the Bodart, Dupuis, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Charles settled at Grand Pré, where most of his children and grandchildren remained.  Two of his grandsons, Claude and Jacques, married into the Cormier and Bourgeois families of Chignecto and may have settled in that community in the mid-1740s.  

Vincent, born in c1665, married Anne, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, at Port-Royal in c1688 and moved to Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, not far from his older brother Charles.  Vincent also fathered a dozen children, including five sons who married into the Bourg and Landry families.  Vincent and Anne's daughters married into the Richard, Forest, Broussard, and Landry families.  

Antoine, born in c1676, did not marry.  

Youngest son, Jean, born in c1684, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Boudrot and Renée Bourg, at Port-Royal in c1705.  They also settled at Ste.-Famille.  By the early 1750s, however, they had moved on to Port-Lajoie on Île St.-Jean.  They had seven children, including four sons who married into the Landry and Thériot families.  Their daughters married into the Landry family.  

[For more of this family in pre- and post-disperal Acadia and Canada, see Book Three]

In 1755, descendants of Antoine Babin of La Chaussée could be found in the Minas Basin, especially at Grand-Pré and La Famille, Pigiguit; and on Île St.-Jean.  

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Meanwhile, Jacques Babin, a single man, was counted in the 1671 census at Plaisance, Newfoundland.  The Babins of Acadia came from Antoine and his three sons, not from Jacques.

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

[For the family's travails during the Great Upheaval, see Book Six]

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Babins were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Two Babins, both children, came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765: 

Anne Saulnier of Petitcoudiac, age 24, widow of Basile Babin, arrived with two young daughters--Lisa-Marie-Josèphe, called Lise or Marie, age 5; and Marie-Josèphe, age 1.  They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the year before and then crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where Anne remarried to Michel Cormier of Chignecto in c1769. 

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The great majority of the Babins who emigrated to Louisiana--60 members of the family in all--came in 1766, 1767, and 1768 from exile in Maryland.  They settled on the Acadian Coast at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, and Ascension, and far upriver at San Luìs de Natchez, from which they moved to the Acadian Coast in 1769.  A sad note:  many of the Babin families from Maryland were headed by widows.  

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Six Babin families, an individual, and two Babin wives--21 members of the family--came to Louisiana with the first contingent of Acadians from Maryland in September 1766.  Spanish officials sent them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Acadian had settled since early 1764 and which soon became known as the Acadian Coast:

Anne Thériot, age 45, widow of Joseph Babin, came with three children, all born at Pigiguit--Joseph, fils, age 21; Jean-Jacques, age 18; and Marguerite, age 17.  Anne did not remarry.  Her daughter Marguerite married Francois, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Dugas, at Cabanocé in June 1768.  Her sons settled on the river.  

Ursule Landry, age 42, widow of Jean-Baptiste Babin, came with four children--Joseph, age 18; Marie-Josèphe, age 16; Marguerite, age 14; and Anne-Barbe, age 10.  Ursule never remarried.  Two of her daughters married into the LeBlanc, Melançon, and Panvil families and settled on the river.  Her son also settled on the river.  

Anne Forest, age 37, widow of Pierre Babin, came with two sons--Joseph dit Dios, age 11; and Charles, age 6.  Anne remarried to Étienne, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Bujole, at New Orleans in c1768 and returned to Cabanocé.  Her sons settled on the river.  Charles died young and did not marry.  Joseph married and created a family of his own.  One of his sons settled on the upper Lafourche.  

Amand Babin of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 23, came with wife Marie-Anastasie, called Anastasie, Landry, age 18; and his sisters Élisabeth-Madeleine, age 22; and Marie-Josèphe, age unrecorded.  Amand and Anastasie settled on the river and had many children, especially sons.  His sisters also remained on the river.  Élisabeth-Madeleine married Joseph-Athanase Landry and died in Ascension Parish in January 1812; she was 68 years old.  

More of Amand Babin's unmarried siblings--Charles, age 24; Vincent-Ephrèm, age 21; and Brigitte, age 16, all born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit--came to Louisiana together.  Brigitte married fellow Acadian Paul-Marie Landry and settled on the river; she died at St.-Gabriel in April 1803, in her early 50s.  Charles and Vincent-Ephrem also settled on the river.  

Three unmarried Babin sisters, daughters of Germain Babin of Minas--Marguerite, age 27; Madeleine, age 20; and Marie, age 13--also came to Louisiana together.  They married into the Babin and Landry families and remained on the river.  

Anne Babin, age 23, came with husband Paul LeBlanc, age 23, and an infant son.  She may have been pregnant when she reached the colony and gave birth to a daughter soon after she and her husband settled at Cabanocé.  

Marie-Josèphe Babin, age 19, probably came alone.  She married widower Sylvain LeBlanc probably at Cabanocé in the late 1760s and died there in January 1807, age 60, a widow.  

Anne-Geneviève Babin, age 18, came alone.  She married Joseph, son of fellow Acadian Pierre Granger, and followed him to the Opelousas District in the 1770s.

Descendants of Charles BABIN (c1742-?; Antoine, Jean)

Charles, eldest son of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, came to Louisiana from Maryland in September 1766 with two siblings.  They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Charles married cousin Élisabeth, also called Madeleine, daughter of perhaps Germain Babin and Marguerite Landry, in March 1767.  In 1770, they were living on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension, just above St.-Jacques.  Their daughters married into the Braud and Landry families.  Charles died by November 1781, when Madeleine remarried to Joseph dit Dios, son of fellow Acadian René Landry and widower of Madeleine LeBlanc, at Ascension.  His older son moved to Lafourche Interior Parish.  His younger son's line of the family seems to have died out early.  

1

Older son Joseph, born at either St.-Jacques or Ascension in c1769, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Godin dit Lincour and Marie-Josèphe Babin, at Ascension in June 1801.  In the 1820s, they moved to Lafourche Interior Parish, where their children also settled.  

2

Younger son Alain, born probably at Ascension in c1772, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Landry and Osite Landry, at Ascension in May 1794.  Their son Alain-Séverin was born at Ascension in February 1795.  Alain, père died at Ascension in October 1796; he was only 24 years old.  His daughter Marie-Mathilde was born posthumously the following January.  His children may have died young; if so, this branch of the family did not survive.  

Descendants of Amand BABIN (c1743-1808; Antoine, Jean)

Amand, second son of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1743, was exiled to Maryland in his early teens in 1755.  He came to Louisiana in September 1766 with his wife Marie-Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan, who he had married in Maryland earlier that year.  With them came two of Amand's unmarried sisters.  He and Anastasie settled on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension just above St.-Jacques, where they had many children, especially sons.  Their daughters married into the Dugas and LeBlanc families.  Amand died in Ascension Parish in April 1808, a widower.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Amand was 76 years old when he died, but he was closer to 66.  Although half of Amand's 10 sons died young, the other half survived to create large families of their own; his youngest sons' lines were especially prolific.  Two of Amand's sons, including his youngest one, settled on Bayou Lafourche.  The others remained in Ascension Parish.  Some of his grandsons settled in nearby Iberville Parish.  Many of his descendants married cousins. 

1

Oldest son Paul, born probably at Ascension in c1768, died at age 4 in August 1772.  

2

Grégoire, born probably at Ascension in c1769, died at age 3 in September 1772. 

3

Alexandre-Eusèbe or Eusèbe Alexandre, called Alex, born probably at Ascension in c1772, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Duhon and Anne LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques in December 1793.  Their son Alexandre-Valéry, called Valéry, a twin, was born at Ascension in October 1795, Narcisse in December 1797, and Maximilien le jeune, called Émilien and Milien, in February 1802.  Their daughters married into the Landry and LeBlanc families.  Alex remarried to cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain LeBlanc and Marie Josèphe Babin and widow of Pierre Landry, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in January 1809.  Their son Vital Trasimond, called Trasimond, was born in Ascension Parish in November 1809, and Alexandre Homer or Homer Alexandre in September 1811 but died at age 1 in September 1812.  Their daughter married a Landry cousin.  Alex remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Marie Madeleine Braud, 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.  Alex, called Eusèbe by the Donaldsonville priest who recorded his burial, died in Ascension Parish in November 1831; the priest said that Eusèbe was age 65 when he died, but he was closer to 60.  

3a

Narcisse, by his father's first wife, died in Ascension Parish in February 1816, age 18, and did not marry. 

3b

Valéry, by his father's first wife, married cousin Adélaïre, daughter of Joseph Babin and Osite LeBlanc, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in August 1816.  Their son Antoine Valéry was born in Ascension Parish in April 1817, Alexandre Maximilien or Maximilien Alexandre in August 1820, and Thomas or Damas Albert in March 1823 but died at age 5 months the following September.  Valéry died in Ascension Parish in February 1826; he was only 30 years old.  Adélaïde remarried to Olivier, son of fellow Acadian Simon Landry and widower of Marie Culere, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1827.  

Antoine Valéry married cousin Delphine Élisabeth or Élisabeth Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Éloi Joseph Landry and Madeleine Sidalise Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1838; Delphine's mother was a Babin.  They lived near the boundary between Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their son Alexandre Amédée, called Amédée, was born in March 1839, Caliste Valmond in October 1841, Albert or Antoine Hiriart in February 1844 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1845, and Louis Despalier was born in August 1847.  Antoine V., as the recording priest called him, died "at New River," Ascension Parish, in November 1849, age 32.  His daughter Delphine Sidalise was born the following February. 

Amédée married cousin Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Anselme Landry and Joséphine Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1862.

Louis Despalier married fellow Acadian Marie Evelina Hébert.  Their son François Terence was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in October 1869. 

Alexandre Maximilien married Marie Clementine, called Clementine, 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 son Eusèbe Alcée, called Alcée, was born in August 1843, Martin Alfred in November 1845, Michel Alcide, called Alcide, in September 1847 but died at age 1 in November 1848, and Louis Auguste Marchand was born in September 1853.  Alexandre Maximilien died near St. Gabriel in September 1853; he was only 33 years old; his youngest son had been born a week earlier. 

Alcée married Adelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Arsène Hébert and Euphrosine Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1870. 

3c

Milien, by his father's first wife, married cousin Marie Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Braud and Victoire Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in July 1825; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their infant son, name unrecorded, died in Ascension Parish several days after his birth in January 1833, Alexandre Germain, called Germain, was born in February 1834, and Étienne Adélard in December 1836.  Their daughters married into the Dugas and Lamarre families.  Milien died in Ascension Parish in September 1853, age 51. 

Germain married cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Siffrien Babin and Jeanette Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1855.  Their son Marc Ulysse was born in Ascension Parish in October 1860, and Simon Gilbert, called Gilbert, in February 1868 but died the following August.

3d

Trasimond, by his father's second wife, married cousin Clarisse Zoe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Melançon and Madeleleine LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1829; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Alexandre Sosthène, called Sosthène, was born in Ascension Parish in October 1830, a child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died 8 days after its birth in April 1837, Vincent Vital, called Vital, was born in April 1845, and Jules in May 1847.  Their daughters married into the Babin, Braud, Bullian, Lavergne (French Creole, not Acadian), and LeBlanc families. 

Alexandre Sosthène married Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Braud and Marie Rose Hébert, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1851.  Their son Alexandre Sosthène, fils was born in Ascension Parish in December 1851, Auger Vileor in February 1855, and Jean Vintrex in October 1856. 

Vital may have been the V. Babin who served in the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry during the War of 1861-65.  Vital married cousin Emelia, daughter of fellow Acadians Ursin Hébert and Delite Babin, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in January 1868; Emelia's mother was a Babin.  Their son Michel Just was born near Gonzales in September 1868, and Ursin Hippolyte in August 1870. 

4

Simon-Raphaël, called Simonet, born at Ascension in August 1773, married Marguerite-Apolline, called Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marguerite LeBlanc of San Gabriel, at Ascension in January 1796.  Their son Simon-Sifroi, called Sifroi, Siffren, Siffrin, Siffrien, and Siphrin, was born at Ascension in November 1796, Alexandre-Eugène in April 1799, Evariste in October 1801, Louis Survandeau in April 1805, an infant son, name unrecorded, died in August 1808, Valentin Jean was born in March 1810, and Marcellin Michel in September 1811.  They also had a son named Maxille.  Their daughters married into the Hébert, Landry, LeBlanc, and Melançon families.  Simon Raphael died in Ascension Parish in July 1822, age 49.  

4a

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, Ascension Parish, 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 the Donaldson church, 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, and remarried again--his third marriage--to another cousin, Léocade, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Landry and Osite LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in January 1826.  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 son Jérôme Émile, called Émile, was born in Ascension Parish in January 1830, an infant son, name unrecorded, died a week after his birth in April 1831, Édouard was born in April 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 in January 1834, Simon Siffrien, called Siffrien, fils, was born in July 1840, Félix in July 1842 but died in August, and Joseph Tailor was born posthumously in May 1847 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1848.  Their daughter married a Babin cousin.  Siffrien died in Ascension Parish in February 1847, age 50. 

Raphaël, by his father's first wife, married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Judite Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1840.  Their son Paul Olime was born in November 1845, and Jacques Olivier in May 1847.  Their daughter married into the Bourgeois family. 

Émile, by his father's fourth wife, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Ulgère Dugas and Émelie Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1851.  Their son Albert was born in Ascension Parish in November 1852, Jérôme Alcée in September 1854, a child, name and gender unrecorded, perhaps a son, died at age 20 days in January 1859, Ambroise Émile was born in April 1861, Joseph A. in October 1863 but died at age 3 in September 1866, Wilfrid Édouard was born in October 1867, and Pierre Victor in November 1869. 

Siffrien, fils, by his father's fourth wife, married Athanaise, daughter of fellow Acadian Derosier Braud and his Creole wife Madeleine Denoux, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1860.  Their son Siffrien Quentin was born in Ascension Parish in October 1860, Laurent Eugène in October 1861 but died at age 6 in December 1867, Louis Alexandre was born in March 1863 but died at age 3 in August 1866, Martin Ozémé was born in November 1864, and Simon Alcide in September 1866. 

4b

Evariste married cousin Marie Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Melançon and Marguerite Élisabeth Orillion, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, 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 son Corentin Joseph was born in February 1837, Trasimond Aulime or Olivier in May 1839 but at age 2 1/2 in October 1841, and Vincent Adonis, called Adonis, was born in September 1845.  Their daughters married into the Braud and Denoux families. 

Corentin married Élise, called Lise, daughter of French Creole Joseph Delmaire Lavergne and his Acadian wife Eléonore Braud, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1856.  They settled near boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes before moving to the Gonzales area of Ascension Parish.

Adonis married Juliette, daughter of Creoles Albert Poché and Malvine Lavergne, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in January 1866; Juliette's mother was the sister of Adonis's brother Corentin's father-in-law. Adonis and Juliette's son Albert Vincent was born near Gonzales in October 1868. 

4c

Maxille married cousin Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and Angèle Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1828; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Joseph Duval, called Duval, was born in Ascension Parish in March 1829, Simonet Osémé in November 1830, Maxille Comes in September 1833, Sabat or Sala Oscar, called S. Oscar and Oscar S., in December 1834, Homer in March 1838, and Raphaël Viléon in July 1839.  Their daughter married into the Marchand family. 

Duval married Françoise Adams probably in Ascension Parish in the early 1850s.

S. Oscar married cousin Elene, Elina, Elisca, or Elvina Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Trasimond Babin and Clarisse Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1858; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Joachim Hercule was born in Ascension Parish in March 1862, and Joseph Homerum near Gonzales in March 1864. 

4d

Marcellin died in Ascension Parish in February 1831, age 20, and did not marry.  

4e

Valentin Jean married cousin Clothilde Emeranthe, called Emeranthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Landry and Eliza Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1833; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Valentin Privat or Privat Valentin, was born in Ascension Parish in August 1837, and Félix Édouard in August 1842.  Their daughter married into the Braud family.  Valentin remarried to Marie Serasine, Sarrazine, or Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Braud and Marie Rose Hébert, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1846.  They lived near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes.  Their son Jean Albert was born in Ascension Parish in February 1847, Adam in November 1852, Colombe Dema near Gonzales, St. James Parish, in December 1863 but died at age 1 1/2 in August 1865, Joseph Edgard was born in November 1865, and Louis Vincent in December 1867.  Their daughters married into the Braud and Hébert families. 

Privat Valentin, by his father's first wife, married cousin Emelia or Ersilia, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Hébert and Alzina Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1858.  Their son Laurent Camille was born in Ascension Parish in May 1859, Jean Baptiste Sylvère in October 1860, and Odeam Hersila in September 1864. 

Félix, by his father's first wife, married cousin Eugènie, daughter of fellow Acadians Norbert Landry and Elisa Landry, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in November 1866.

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Jean-Jacques, born probably at Ascension in c1774, died at age 19 months in July 1775.  

6

Jacques, born at Ascension in January 1775, also may have died young.  

7

Augustin, born at Ascension in April 1781, died at age 2 1/2 in July 1783.  

8

Landry, born at Ascension in November 1782, married Marie-Louise, sometimes called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Landry and Rose Dugas, at Ascension in April 1802.  In the late 1810s or 1820s, Landry moved his family to Lafourche Interior Parish.  

9

Pierre-Maximilien, called Maximilien and sometimes Émilien, born at Ascension in November 1784, 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 son Onésime was born probably at Ascension in c1805, Anauville or Merville Rosémond in July 1806, Pierre Duval in May 1808, Jérôme Léon, called Léon, was born in January 1810, an infant son, name unrecorded, died at age 1 month in September 1811, Sifroi Henri was born in July 1812, 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, and Pierre Sylvanie was born in November 1827.  Their daughter married into the Braud family.  Pierre Maximilien died in Ascension Parish in January 1837; the priest who recorded his burial said that Maximilien was age 54 when he died, but he was 52. 

9a

Onésime married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Raphaël Landry and Marie-Madeleine Braud, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1824.  Onésime died in Ascension Parish in July 1825; he was only 21 years old.  His son Pierre Onésime, called Onésime, born posthumously in Ascension Parish in February 1826, died at age 10 months the following December; this line of the family died with him.  Wife Arthémise also died in December 1826, age 22.  

9b

Merville died in Ascension Parish in September 1825, age 18, and probably did not marry.  

9c

Pierre Duval married cousin Rosalie Euphrosine, called Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin and Rosalie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1830; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Pierre died in Ascension Parish, age unrecorded, in April 1831, and Pierre Gustave was born in February 1835.  Their daughter married a Richard cousin.  Pierre Duval died in Ascension Parish in December 1836, age 28. 

9d

Léon married Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Landry and Jeanette Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, 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. 

9e

Sifroi Victorin married cousin Marie Laurenza, daughter of Jean Denoux, also called Gaillard, and his Acadian wife Justine Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1839.  Their son Jean Baptiste Théodule was born in Ascension Parish in October 1840.  Victorin died in Ascension Parish in April 1846, age 27. 

9f

Prudent married Marguerite Celina, Selima, or Zeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Rivet and Marie Élisabeth Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1839.  Their son Pierre was born in Ascension Parish in July 1840.  They also had a son named Turiaffe, unless he was Pierre.  Their daughter married into the Boudreaux family. 

During the War of 1861-65, Turiaffe served in the Donaldsonville Artillery, an old militia company from Ascension Parish mustered into Confederate service in August 1861; he enlisted at Donaldsonville in September 1861 and followed his battery to Virginia, where it fought in what became General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--so he was one of R. E. Lee's Louisiana Tigers.  Turiaffe was still with the battery when it surrendered with the rest of Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April 1865.  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.

9g

Théodule married cousin Aureline Euphémie, daughter of Charles Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1843.  Their son Rémi Prudent was born in Ascension Parish in October 1845, and Maxille Amédée, called Amédée, in September 1848 but died at age 4 1/2 in July 1853.  Théodule died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1859, age 38. 

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Youngest son Louis, born at Ascension in April 1786, married Anne 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 and also had many sons. 

Descendants of Vincent-Ephrèm BABIN (c1745-1810; Antoine, Jean)

Vincent-Ephrèm, called Ephrèm, third and youngest son of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1745, came to Louisiana from Maryland in September 1766 with two siblings.  They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Ephrem married fellow Acadian Marguerite LeBlanc in c1767.  In 1777, they were living on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension, just above St.-Jacques.  Ephrème contracted smallpox at Ascension in October 1787 but survived.  His daughters married into the Landry and LeBlanc families.  Ephrem died in Ascension Parish in September 1810, age 67.  

1

Oldest son Paul-Dominique, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in June 1770, may have been the Paul Babin who died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, at age 45 in April 1815.  The priest who recorded his burial did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  

2

Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, baptized at the Ascension church, age unrecorded, in April 1777, married Marie Françoise, called Françoise and also Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Hyacinthe Landry and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Ascension in November 1796.  Their son Joseph-Ephrem was born at Ascension in July 1799 but died at age 2 in December 1801, Leufroi Ephrem was born in August 1811, Honoré in August 1813, and Sylvestre in January 1816 but died at age 7 in February 1823.  Jacques died in Ascension Parish in March 1816, age 38 and a widower, so his wife may have died from complications of childbirth a few weeks earlier.  Their daughter married into the Bujole and LeBlanc families.  One wonders if any of his sons married. 

3

Joseph-Alexandre, born at Ascension in March 1779, may have died young.  

4

Youngest son Simon, born at Ascension in December 1781, may have died in Ascension Parish at age 22 in March 1804.  He did not marry.  

Descendants of Joseph BABIN (c1745-?; Antoine, Jean)

Joseph, fils, elder son of Joseph Babin and Anne Thériot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1745, came to Louisiana from Maryland in September 1766 with his widowed mother and two siblings.  They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Joseph, fils married fellow Acadian Marie Landry in February 1768.  In 1770, they were living on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension, just upriver from St.-Jacques.  By 1777, they had crossed the river to the right, or west, bank at St.-Jacques; they probably lived near the boundary of St.-Jacques and Ascension.  Their daughters married into the Bourgeois, Gautreaux, Robichaux, and Roger families.  Joseph, fils remarried to Anne-Appoline, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Doiron and Marguerite Michel and widow of Jean-Baptiste Chênet dit La Garenne, at St.-Jacques in February 1797; he was 52 years old.  Anne, also a native of Pigiguit, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785; she was age 59 when she married Joseph, fils, so she gave him no more children.  The only one of his sons who married settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  

1

Oldest son Jean-Louis, called Louis, from his father's first wife, born at Ascension in November 1775, died at age 21 in July 1796.  He did not marry.  

2

Joseph, fils, by his father's first wife, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in March 1777, also may have died young.  

3

Youngest son Auguste, by his father's first wife, born at Ascension in November 1778, married Marianne or Anne Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bergeron and Marie Foret of Ascension, at Assumption on the upper Bayou Lafourche in May 1800.  They settled at Assumption. 

Descendants of Jean-Jacques BABIN (c1748-?; Antoine, Jean)

Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, younger son of Joseph Babin and Anne Thériot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1748, came to Louisiana from Maryland in September 1766 with his widowed mother and two siblings.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Jacques married Marguerite, daughter of perhaps 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.  Jacques may have died by May 1787, when his wife may have remarried at Cabahannocer.  His daughters married into the Boudreaux and Richard families; one of them lived in St. Martin Parish, west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Most of Jean-Jacques and Marguerite's sons died young or did not marry.  One of their married sons moved to Lafourche Interior Parish.  The other remained in Ascension Parish, but his line of the family, except for its blood, died out early.  

1

Oldest son Donat, baptized at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in September 1773, was counted with his family at Cabahannocer in January 1777 but probably died young.  

2

Paul, baptized at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer, age unrecorded, in September 1776, may have been the Paul Babin who died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in April 1816.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Paul was age 38 when he died but did not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  

3

Éloi or D'Artoise, also called Eusèbe, born at Ascension in December 1778, 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 son Eusèbe Rosémond was born in Ascension Parish in December 1809 but died at age 11 months in October 1810.  Their daughters married into the Blanchard, Braud, and Lambert families.  Except for its blood, this line of the family did not survive.  

4

Jacques-Alexandre, born at Ascension in December 1783, married Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melançon and Osite LeBlanc, at St. James, formerly Cabahannocer, in November 1804.  They had many children, especially sons, in St. James  and Ascension parishes.  By the early 1820s, they had moved to Lafourche Interior Parish, where their children also settled.  

5

Youngest son Pligio, born probably at Ascension in c1788, died at Cabahannocer at age 9 in November 1797.  

Descendants of Joseph BABIN (c1748-1809; Antoine, Jean)

Joseph, son of Jean-Baptiste Babin and Ursule Landry, born at Minas in c1748, came to Louisiana from Maryland in September 1766 with his widowed mother and three sisters.  They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Joseph married Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Forest, in January 1771.  Osite also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  By 1777, they were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension, just above St.-Jacques.  Their daughters married into the Babin, Boudreaux, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Joseph died in Ascension Parish in March 1809; the priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph was 66 years old when he died, but he was closer to 61.  His sons settled in Ascension Parish but some of his grandsons moved upriver into the Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes.  

1

Oldest son Joseph-Ephrèm, born at Ascension in November 1774, married Anne Marie or Marine, called Marie or Marine, daughter of fellow Acadian François Hébert and Marie LeBlanc, at St.-Gabriel, just upriver from Ascension, in April 1797.  Their son, name unrecorded, died probably at St.-Gabriel 8 days after his birth in February 1799, Alain-Joseph or Joseph-Alain, also called Joseph Elien and Elien, was born at Ascension in August 1802, Trasimond Ephrèm in December 1813, and Liboise Apollinaire, called Apollinaire, in June in 1816 but died at age 2 in June 1818.  Their daughters married into the Doiron, Dupuy, Hébert, and Lopez families.  Joseph Ephrèm died in Ascension Parish in March 1838; the priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph was 61 years old when he died, but he was 63.  Both of his married sons settled in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

1a

Joseph Élien 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 son Joseph Arsène, also called Philogène and Philosine, was born in July 1827, and Ernest Daigre in April 1828.  They also had a son named Adélard.  Their daughters married into the Allen and Hébert families.  Élien died near Brusly in June 1855, age 52. 

Ernest Daigre died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1851, age 23, and did not marry. 

Joseph Arsène dit Philogène married Arthémise Élodie, called Élodie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Longuépée and Constance Comeaux, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1852.  Their son Jean died near Brusly 2 days after his birth in June 1854, and Joseph Adonis was born in June 1860. 

Adélard married first cousin Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin Templet and Hortense Babin, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1864; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

1b

Trasimond Ephrèm, living in West Baton Rouge Parish, married Julienne, daughter of French Creole Pierre Clément and his Acadian wife Marie-Madeleine Legendre of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in August 1845.  They settled near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Trasimond Arthur or Arthur Trasimond was born in May 1846, Joseph Arnileas in December 1847, Jean Ephrem in November 1849, Pierre Magloire in October 1851, Étienne David in December 1853, and Arcade Telesphore in January 1856 but died the following August. 

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, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1867. 

2

Paul, born at Ascension in March 1776, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marie Babin, at Ascension in September 1797.  Their son Simon Leufroi, called Leufroi, was born in Ascension Parish in August 1808, Hippolyte Adolphe, called Adolphe, in December 1813, and Raphaël Valéry, called Valéry, in September 1816.  Their daughters married into the Denoux, also called Gaillard, Dupuis, and Landry families.  Paul died in Ascension Parish in July 1835, age 59. 

2a

Simon 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 she joined her siblings in Terrebonne Parish after Leufroi died. 

2b

Adolphe married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Rivet and and Élisabeth Melançon and stepdaughter of Nicolas Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1836.  They settled near the boundary of Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their son Hippolyte Germain was born in July 1839, Sandon in October 1842, and Lucian Gerent in October 1844.  Their daughter married into the Favre family. 

2c

Valéry married Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Poirier and Caroline Mire, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1844.  Their daughter married into the Dugas family.  Valéry may have died in Ascension Parish in August 1858; is so, he would have been only 41 years old.  His line of the family, except for its blood, probably died with him. 

3

Jean-Charles, called Charles, born probably at Ascension in the late 1770s, married cousin Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac LeBlanc and probably his first wife Marie-Rose Melançon, at Ascension in the late 1790s.  Their son Joseph-Valéry, called Valéry, was born at Ascension in March 1799, Joseph-Hubert in November 1800, Charles, fils in February 1809 but died at age 20 months in October 1810, and Isaac Colin was born in June 1811 but died at age 1 in December 1812.  Charles, père remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Frenchman Pierre Denoux, also called Gaillard, and and his Creole wife Marie Lagrange of Ascension, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1822.  Their daughter, born posthumously, married a Babin cousin.  Charles, père died probably in Assumption Parish by February 1827, when his wife remarried there. 

Joseph Valéry, by his father's first wife, 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 near the boundary of Iberville and Ascension parishes. Their son, name unrecorded, died a day after his birth in October 1820, and Valéry, fils died a month after his birth in January 1828.  Their daughter married into the Leroy family.  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 son Joseph Ovid, called Ovid, was born in Ascension Parish in September 1830 but died at age 14 1/2 in February 1845, Charles Antoine or Antoine Charles was born in July 1832, and Terence in September 1837.  Their daughter married into the Gomez family.  Joseph Valéry died in Ascension Parish in October 1847, age 48. 

Antoine Charles, by his father's second wife, married Spanish Creole Carmelite Diez probably in Ascension Parish in the late 1850s.  Their son Joseph Antoine was born in Ascension Parish in January 1861.

4

Pierre-Delage, called Delage, born at Ascension in April 1779, died at age 6 in August 1785.

5

Simon-Joseph, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in May 1787, married Sidalise Marguerite or Marguerite Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Landry and Angèle LeBlanc of Ascension, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1814.  Their son Honoré was born in Ascension Parish in March 1815, Anselme in April 1817, Désiré in May 1819, Joseph Leufroi in July 1830, and Simon Valsin in May 1832.  

5a

Honoré married cousin Marie Mathilde, called Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marine Melançon, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1838.  Honoré died in Ascension Parish in March 1840; the priest who recorded his burial said that Honoré was age 26 when he died, but he was 25.  His line of the family probably died with him. 

5b

Simon Valsin married Martha Laurenda Wallis.  Their son William Honoré was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in January 1866. 

6

Claude-Raphaël, born at Ascension in September 1793, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Donat Landry and and Angèle Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1819.  Their son Michel Raphaël or Raphaël Michel, was born in Ascension Parish in September 1821, Denis Dosile, called Dosile or Dozilia, in October 1823, and Varis Théodule in February 1826.  Claude Raphaël died in Ascension Parish in July 1828, age 34. 

6a

Raphaël Michel married cousin Alzire Apolline, called Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Corentin LeBlanc and Phelonise Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1844.  Their son Michel Dosilia or Damas was born in Ascension Parish in December 1847 but died the following April.  Their daughter married into the Braud family.  Raphaël remarried to Marie Tarsile, called Tarsile, daughter of French Creole Antoine Léon Duplessis and his Acadian wife Céleste Dupuis, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1853.  Their son Marcellus Malcour was born in Ascension Parish in December 1855, Rigobert Nelville in January 1861, Bertin Raphaël in September 1862, and Relique Sylvère near Gonzales in June 1866. 

6b

Dosile, called Dozilia by the recording priest, married Malvina, daughter of French Creole Joseph Delmaire Lavergne and his Acadian wife Eléonore Braud, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in December 1865; Dosile was in his early 40s at the time of the wedding.  His and Malvina's son Joseph Denys was born near Gonzales in September 1866, and Paul Johnny in January 1870. 

7

Youngest son Valéry Damase, born at Ascension in December 1796, died at his brother Paul's home in Ascension Parish in March 1824, age 28, and probably did not marry.  

Descendants of Joseph dit Dios BABIN (c1754-1782; Antoine, Vincent, Joseph)

Joseph dit Dios, elder son of Pierre Babin and Anne Forest, born probably at Pigiguit in c1754, came to Louisiana from Maryland in September 1766 with his widowed mother and younger brother Charles.  Their mother remarried at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony but returned to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  Joseph married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Landry, at Ascension, just above St.-Jacques, in February 1775.  A few years later, they were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension.  Joseph dit Dios died at Ascension in February 1782; he was only 28 years old.  Only one of Joseph dit Dios's four sons produced a line of the family that survived, but, in spite of the son's early death, it became a substantial one in St. James and Ascension parishes.  

1

Oldest son Paul-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, born at Ascension in November 1775, married first cousin Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Marie-Anne Arceneaux, at St.-Jacques in June 1796; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Eugène was born at St.-Jacques in March 1797, Antoine near Assumption, on upper Bayou Lafourche, in November 1800, and Désiré at St.-Jacques in June 1805 but died at age 6 in September 1811.  Hippolyte died in St. James Parish in August 1811; the priest who recorded his burial said that Hippolyte was age 27 when he died, but he was 35.  Two of his three sons survived childhood and moved to the upper Bayou Teche valley, where they died in their mid-20s, unmarried.  As a result, this line of the family did not survive in the Bayou State. 

1a

Eugène died at the home of Rosémond LeBlanc at Fausse Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in June 1822, age 25, and probably did not marry.  

1b

Antoine died at the home of Widow Rosémond LeBlanc at Fausse Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in September 1826, age 26, and also did not marry.  His father's line of the family probably died with him.

2

Charles, born at Ascension in May 1777, died at age 2 in December 1779.  

3

Benjamin, baptized at St.-Jacques, age not recorded, in July 1778, married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Marie Richard and Rose Bourgeois, at St.-Jacques in May 1797.  Their son Joseph was born at St.-Jacques in March 1799, Adélard in January 1801, Benjamin Ursin, called Ursin, in August 1808, and Nicolas in April 1810.  Their daughters married into the LeBoeuf and Richard families.  Benjamin, père died in St. James Parish in September 1811, age 33.  

3a

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 son Simon Oscar, called Oscar, was born in Ascension Parish in February 1828, and Adélard, fils died several days after his birth in August 1831.  Their daughter married into the Braud family.  Adélard remarried to Célanie, Céline, or Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Braud and Élise Braud, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in December 1835.  Their newborn child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died in Ascension Parish in October 1836, and Pierre Adélard was born in March 1838.  Their daughter married into the Poché family.  Adélard, père died in Ascension Parish in November 1839, age 39.

Oscar, by his father's first wife, died in Ascension Parish in January 1853, age 24, and probably did not marry. 

3b

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 son Benjamin Rigobert was born in January 1828, Philias Constant, called Constant, in February 1829, Joseph Landry, called Landry, was baptized at the Convent church, age 1 year, 26 days, in October 1835, and Nicolas le jeune was born in May 1837.  Their daughters married into the Falgout and Theriot families. 

Constant married Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Gaudin and Scholastique Hébert, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in January 1851.

Joseph Landry married Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Félix Arceneaux and his Creole wife Virginie Minvielle, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, 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 son Louis Joseph Landry was born near Convent in June 1865. 

3c

Ursin married Marie Adèle or Odile, called Odile, Berteau probably in Ascension Parish in the early 1830s.  Their son Joseph Ursin or Ursin Joseph was born in Ascension Parish in October 1836, Fortunat, despite his name, died hours after his birth in July 1840, and Joseph died at age 9 days in June 1845.  Their daughter married into the Gautreaux and Landry families.

During the War of 1861-65, Joseph Ursin served in Company A of the 3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Iberville Parish, which fought in Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi.  Joseph 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.  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; Camp Douglas, Illinois, near Chicago; and then to the exchange deport 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 French Creole Luc Lesassier and his Acadian wife Aveline Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, later that month.  Their son Joseph Georges was born in Iberville Parish in October 1864, Charles Samuel in March 1866, and Paul Ursin in November 1867.  Meanwhile, Joseph Ursin returned to his company and was captured and paroled at Vicksburg in July 1863.  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. 

3d

Nicolas married Marie Antoinette, called Antoinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Braud and Marguerite Richard, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1837.  Their son Jean Baptiste Théodore was born in Ascension Parish 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.  Nicolas died in Ascension Parish in January 1842, age 31. 

Alexandre married Avelina or Evelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Landry and Élisabeth Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1860.  Their son Paul Oscar was born in Ascension Parish in December 1864. 

4

Youngest son Jérôme, baptized at St.-Jacques, age not recorded, in May 1780, may have died young.  

Charles BABIN (c1760-1783; Antoine, Vincent, Joseph)

Charles, younger son of Pierre Babin and Anne Forest, born probably in Maryland in c1760, came to Louisiana from Maryland in September 1766 with his widowed mother and older brother Joseph dit Dios.  Their mother remarried at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony but returned to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  Charles died at Ascension, just upriver from St.-Jacques, in January 1783; he was only 22 years old and probably did not marry. 

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Five Babin families and a number of Babin wives and widows--20 more members of the family--arrived from Maryland via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in July 1767 and were sent to the new Acadian community of St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, on the river above Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  Since communication via the river between St.-Gabriel and Cabanocé, where their kinsmen from Maryland had recently settled, was easy by boat, the new arrivals agreed to go there:

Marie Landry, age 66, widow of Paul Babin, came with a daughter, Marie, age 22.  They remained on the river.  Marie did not marry. 

Joseph Babin of Pigiguit, age 54, a widower, came with three children--Anne-Élisabeth or Isabelle, age 24; Étienne, age 18; and Cyprien, age 17.  Joseph did not remarry and remained at St.-Gabriel.  Daughter Anne-Élisabeth married twice into the Hébert family before she died at St.-Gabriel in December 1799.  One of Joseph's sons settled at St.-Gabriel.  The other son never married.  

Marie-Madeleine Babin, age 49, came with husband Augustin Landry, age 48, and six children.  They remained on the river.  Marie-Madeleine died at St. Gabriel in March 1814, age 95.  

Pierre Babin, age 44, came with wife Madeleine Richard, age 29, two children--Louise-Ludivine, age 13; and Simon-Pierre, age 3--and orphan Paul Babin, age 16.  Pierre and Madeleine remained at St.-Gabriel and had more children there.  

Geneviève Babin, age 43, widow of Amand Hébert, who died on the voyage from Baltimore to New Orleans, came with a son and three daughters.  They remained on the river.  

Anne Babin, age 37, came with husband Amand Melanson, age 39, and four sons.  She died at St.-Gabriel in November 1801; the priest who recorded her burial said that she was age 79 when she died.  

Anne Babin, age 28, came with husband Anselme Le Borgne de Bélisle, age 28, and an infant son.  Anne was pregnant on the voyage to Louisiana and gave birth to another son at New Orleans in August.  She died probably at St.-Gabriel in the late 1760s or early 1770s, in her early 30s. 

Jean-Baptiste Babin, age 28, older brother of orphan Paul, came with wife Isabelle-Marguerite LeBlanc, age 20, two children--Marguerite, age 2; and Pierre, an infant--and orphan Marie Babin, age 3.  Jean-Baptiste and Isabelle-Marguerite had more children at St.-Gabriel. 

Ignace Babin, age 26, younger brother of Jean-Baptiste, came with wife Marguerite Breau, age 28, and infant son Paul le jeune.  Ignace remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of perhaps Joseph LeBlanc and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at St.-Jacques in February 1778.  She gave him more children.  They remained on the river.   

Judith-Théotiste Babin, age 23, came with husband Diego Hernandez, age 28, and a daughter.  They remained on the river.  

Descendants of Pierre BABIN, fils (c1723-?; Antoine, Charles)

Pierre, fils, son of perhaps Pierre Babin and Madeleine Bourg of Minas, born probably at Minas in c1724, came to Louisiana from Maryland in July 1767 with his wife Madeleine, daughter of perhaps Joseph Richard and Mare LeBlanc of Minas.  With Pierre and Madeleine were a teenage daughter, a young son, and a teenage orphan.  The couple remained at St.-Gabriel, where they had more children.  In 1777, they were living at St.-Gabriel on the "right bank ascending."  Pierre died by April 1778, when his wife remarried to Théodore Dugas at nearby St.-Jacques.  Pierre and Madeleine's daughters married into the Pujol and Landry families.  Their older son settled on the river near the boundary between 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.  Pierre's younger son's line died out despite two marriages.  

1

Older son Simon-Pierre or Pierre-Simon, born in Maryland in c1764, married cousin Marguerite-Constance, called Constance, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Anne Landry, at St.-Gabriel in April 1795.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Simon was born in December 1796, Simon-Pierre, fils, also called Vernon-Pierre, in August 1801, Joseph-Valery, called Valéry, in May 1803, and Pierre Paul or Paul Pierre posthumously in June 1810.  Simon Pierre died near St. Gabriel in December 1809; the priest who recorded his burial said that Simon Pierre was age 50 old when he died, but he was closer to 45.  Only one of his sons created a family of his own. 

1a

Valéry died near St. Gabriel in February 1822, age 19, and did not marry.  

1b

Vernon Pierre died near St. Gabriel in January 1835, age 33, and probably did not marry.  

1c

Paul Pierre married Henriette, also called Euphémie, 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 son Ernest was born in July 1840.  They also had a son named Pierre Paul, fils.  Their daughter married into the Blanchard family.  In 1860, Paul P. Babin, as he was called, owned 1,400 acres, 800 of them "improved," in West Baton Rouge Parish, and 110 slaves worked his plantation and its steam-powered sugar mill. 

Paul Pierre, fils married Rosalie Amilisser, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doiron and Rosalie Bourg, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1864.

2

Younger son Joseph-Dosité, called Dosité, born at St.-Gabriel in January 1774, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Anne Landry, at St.-Gabriel in October 1798; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Dosité remarried to Marie Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian 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 his burial said that Dosité died at "age 90 years," but he was 83.  He seems to have produced no sons by either of his wives, so his line of the family probably died with him.  

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste BABIN (c1739-?; Antoine, Vincent, Joseph?)

Jean-Baptiste, oldest son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, came to Louisiana from Maryland in July 1767 with his wife Isabelle-Marguerite LeBlanc, a 2-year-old daughter, an infant son, and a 3-year-old orphan.  Jean-Baptiste and Isabelle-Marguerite settled on the "right back ascending" at St.-Gabriel, where they had more children, including many more sons.  Their daughters married into the Allain, Breaux, and LeBlanc families. 

1

Oldest son Pierre, born in Maryland in January 1767, only a few months before the family sailed to Louisiana, probably died young.  

2

Grégoire, born at St.-Gabriel in c1768, married Marie-Anne, called Manette, Marine, or Marinette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at St.-Gabriel in May 1800.  Their son Sylvère or Sylvestre was born at St. Gabriel in December 1804, Grégoire Napoléon, called Napoléon, in April 1810, Balthazar in September 1814, and Édouard Marcellin in October 1816.  Their daughters married into the Comeaux and LeBlanc families.  Grégoire died near St. Gabriel in October 1828; the priest who recorded his burial said that Grégoire was age 60 when he died.  

2a

Sylvestre married Marie Euphémie, called Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Béloni 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 Béloni 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 because Ameline was Marie Euphémie's younger sister.  Their son Antoine Omer was born near Baton Rouge in September 1838, Édouard near St. Gabriel in July 1842, Joseph Buffington, called Buffington, near Baton Rouge in November 1843, Edgar in September 1845, and Jean Baptiste Forester in November 1850.  Their daughter married into the Langlois family.  Sylvestre died near Baton Rouge in November 1851, age 46. 

Buffington, by his father's second wife, married Mazelia, daughter of François Xavier Zimmer and Célestine Grose, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1869. 

2b

Napoléon married fellow Acadian Marie Virginie, called Virginie, Hébert perhaps in West Baton Rouge Parish by the early 1840s.  Their son Joseph le jeune was born near Baton Rouge in December 1849, Jean Baptiste Winfield Scott in November 1852, Albert in February 1859, and Jean Charles in December 1862. 

2c

Balthazar married Martha, daughter of Louis Buckner and Marie Treger, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1853.

3

Joseph-Casimir, born at St.-Gabriel in c1773, married Anne or Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Hébert and Anne Landry, at St.-Gabriel in October 1798.  Their son Joseph-Casimir, fils, called Casimir, was born at St.-Gabriel in March 1803 but died at age 7 1/2 in December 1810, Jean Baptiste le jeune was born in May 1804, François Napoléon Théophile, called Théophile, in April 1806, twins Derosin and Jean Pierre in June 1808 but Jean Pierre died at age 7 in February 1816, François Célestin, called Célestin, was born in October 1810, Henri Valmond, called Henry V. and H. V.,  in September 1814, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Marcellin, called Joseph Marcellin, in February 1818.  Their daughters married into the Aubin, Philips, Provenché, and Thomas families.  Joseph may have died near Baton Rouge in May 1830; if so, he would have been in his late 50s. 

3a

Théophile married cousin Phelonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Hébert and his second wife Adélaïde Dupuy of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1827, and remarried to Victorine, French Creole 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 son Théophile Joseph or Joseph Théophilus was born near Baton Rouge in December 1849. 

Joseph Théophilus, by his father's second wife, married Virginia, daughter of Spanish Creoles Jean Baptiste Fuentes and Marie Navarre, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1869. 

3b

Jean Baptiste le jeune married Judith, daughter of French Canadian David Provenché and his Acadian wife Anne LeBlanc, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1828; Judith's brother married one of Jean Baptiste's sisters.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils died near St. Gabriel 8 days after his birth in March 1832.  Their daughter married into the Hébert family.  Jean Baptiste le jeune died near St. Gabriel in June 1833, age 31.  His line of the family, except for its blood, may have died with him. 

3c

Derosin married French Creole Catherine Bouillon probably at Baton Rouge in the early 1830s.  Their son Gilbert Derosin was born near Baton Rouge in February 1835, Joseph Théophile in February 1843, and François le jeune in February 1845.  Their daughter married into the Aubin family. 

3d

François Célestin married Marie Eloise, Heloise, or Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Rémi Doiron and Julie Richard, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1836.  Their son Palmiro Marien was born near Baton Rouge in May 1841, François Célestin, fils in February 1843, and Apollinaire in January 1851 but died at age 14 in February 1865.  Their daughters married into the Bradshaw, Grear, Heroman, and Oldham families.  François Célestin, père remarried to Caroline, daughter of Anglo Americans Luke Blount and 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. 

3e

Henry V., while living in West Baton Rouge Parish, married fellow Acadian Faustine Trahan of West Baton Rouge Parish at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1838.  Their daughter married into the Haynes family.  Henry V. and his wife evidently had no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, probably did not survive.

3f

Joseph Marcellin married Victorine, daughter of French Creole Francois Souchon Aubin and his Acadian wife Mélanie Daigre, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1844.  Their son François Jean Baptiste was born near Baton Rouge in October 1845.  Joseph Marcellin's widow remarried to his older brother Théophile in December 1848. 

4

Senateur, sometimes called Nateur, Nator, and Joseph-Senateur, born at St.-Gabriel in September 1774, married Élise, Eloise, or Heloise, another daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at St.-Gabriel in April 1799.  Their son Senateur-Victor or Victor-Senateur was born at St.-Gabriel in August 1801, Joseph Neville in August 1803 but died at age 1 in June 1804, and Guillaume or William Neuville, called Neuville, was born in December 1809.  Their daughters married into the Dupuy, Joly, and Lesassier families.  Senateur died near St. Gabriel in March 1821; the priest who recorded his burial said that Senateur was age 40 when he died; he was 46.  

4a

Victor Senateur married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Isaac LeBlanc and Félicité Melançon and widow of Victorin Chiasson, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in December 1826.  Their son Michel Adolphe, called Adolphe, was born near St. Gabriel in September 1827.  Their daughter married into the Berry family.  Victor Senateur died near St. Gabriel in July 1844, age 42. 

Adolphe married Léocade, daughter of French Creoles Venance St. Amant and Marianne Joly, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in March 1851.  Their son Victor Alfred was born near St. Gabriel in January 1856, Michel Adolphe, fils in April 1858, and Paul Firmin in September 1866. 

4b

Neuville married Mélanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Part and his Anglo-American wife Constance Henderson, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1836.  Their son Louis Senateur was born near St. Gabriel in June 1838, Michael Oscar, called Oscar, in September 1842, Alexandre Neuville in October 1847, Lucien Arthur in April 1849 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1851, Alphonse in October 1852, and Joseph in September 1854.  Their daughters married into the Boissac family. 

Louis Senateur married Mary Odile, called Odile, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard LeBlanc and Lucille Allain, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1868.  Their son Henry Édouard had been born in Iberville Parish in October and was baptized perhaps on the day of his parents' wedding. 

Oscar married Marie Louise, daughter of Timoléon Boissac and his Acadian wife Odile LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1869; two of Marie Louise's brothers married two of Oscar's sisters. 

5

Pierre-Olivier, called Olivier, baptized at St.-Jacques, downriver from St.-Gabriel, age unrecorded, in June 1777, died at age 10 in March 1787.  

6

Jean-Pierre, born at St.-Gabriel in November 1778, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1826.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Pierre was age 45 when he died, but he was 47.  The priest said nothing of a wife, so Jean-Pierre may not have married.  

7

Félix-Simon, called Simon, born at St.-Gabriel in May 1781, married cousin Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Landry and Devine Babin, at the St.-Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1804.  Their son Simon Eugène, called Eugène, was born near St. Gabriel in April 1807, Simon Rosémond, called Rosémond, in September 1813, Jean Baptiste Dorville or Dorval, called Dorval, was baptized at the St. Gabriel church, age unrecorded, in May 1818, and Jean Adolphe was born in December 1820.  Their daughters married into the Christen and Desbains families.  Simon may have died near St. Gabriel in June 1826; the priest who recorded his burial said that Simon was age 40 when he died, but he would have been age 45.

7a

Rosémond married Hermina, daughter of French Creoles Firmin Duplessis and Louise Tusson, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1843.  Their son Anthony was born near St. Gabriel in November 1846 but died at age 1 in December 1847, and George Dallas was born in October 1851.  Rosémond died near St. Gabriel in October 1853, age 40. 

7b

Jean Baptiste Dorval married double cousin Marie Alazida, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Babin and Sidalise Babin of Ascension Parish, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1844.  Their son Alcée Elphége was born near St. Gabriel in July 1846, Austin in June 1848, and Léonard Lorenz in November 1852. 

7c

Eugène married double cousin Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Henri Babin and Marie Louise Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in April 1845; Arthémise's mother, also, was a Landry.  Eugène died near St. Gabriel in November 1852, age 45.  His line of the family probably died with him. 

7d

Jean Adolphe may have married cousin Elvina Babin and settled in Ascension Parish by the early 1840s. 

8

Youngest son Paul, born at St.-Gabriel in June 1783, married Marie-Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of Frenchman Jean Pierre Cullere or Dulaire and his Acadian wife Madeleine LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1813; Céleste's mother was a LeBlanc.  Their son Pierre Paul, called Paul, fils, was born near St. Gabriel in May 1816.  Their daughter married into the Brasset and Duplessis families.  

Paul, fils married cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Paul LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1837.  Their son Pierre Paul, fils was born near St. Gabriel in October 1838, and Jean Numa in January 1843 but died at age 1 1/2 in November 1844.  Paul, fils died near St. Gabriel in December 1845 "of blows received the preceeding[sic] day in a battle with Adams and others"; Paul was only 29 years old.  One wonders what caused the altercation "with Adams and others" and who was Adams. 

Descendants of Ignace BABIN (c1741-1791; Antoine, Vincent, Joseph?)

Ignace, second son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, born at Ste.-Famillie, Pigiguit, in c1741, came to Louisiana from Maryland in July 1767 with his wife Marguerite Breau, whom he had married in Maryland, and an infant son.  They settled at St.-Gabriel, where they had more children.  Their daughter married into the Moreau family and settled in the Attakapas District.  Ignace remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of perhaps Joseph Landry and Marie-Josèphe Comeau and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at St.-Jacques, downriver from St.-Gabriel, in February 1778.  She gave him another son.  Ignace died at St.-Gabriel in November 1791, age 50.  His sons did not marry, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not survive in the Bayou State. 

1

Older son Paul, by his father's first wife, born in Maryland in December 1766, may have been the Paul Babin who died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in April 1815.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Paul was age 45 when he died and did not list his parents' names or mention a wife.    

2

Younger son Pierre-Paul, by his father's second wife, baptized at St.-Gabriel, age unrecorded, in December 1779, died at age 17 in January 1797.  

Descendants of Paul BABIN (c1751-1802; Antoine, Vincent, Joseph?)

Paul, third son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, born at Ste.-Famillie, Pigiguit, in c1751, came to Louisiana from Maryland in July 1767 with the family of kinsman Pierre Babin.  He followed them to St.-Gabriel, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Brasseaux and Élisabeth Richard, in February 1784.  Their daughters married into the Gomes, Hébert, Landry, LeBlanc, Seguinot, and Thibodeaux families.  Paul died near St.-Gabriel in January 1802, age 50.  

1

Oldest son Paul-Henri, called Henri, born at St.-Gabriel in March 1785, 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 son Paul Célestin, called Célestin, was born in Iberville Parish in June 1810, and Jean Charles, called Charles, in November 1824.  Their daughters married into the Babin and Joly families. 

1a

Célestin died near St. Gabriel in January 1839, age 28, and did not marry.  

1b

Charles married cousin Marguerite Élise, Eliza, or Elysa, daughter of French Creole Edmond Joly and his Acadian wife Adeleine Babin, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in May 1855.  Their son Edmond Henri was born in Iberville Parish in September 1859, Charles Joseph in July 1861, Louis Florian in September 1863, Gabriel Ignace in July 1866, and Cyrille in January 1870. 

2

Pierre, born at St.-Gabriel in May 1786, married cousin Marine or Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Chiasson and Madeleine Richard, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1811.  Their son Pierre Ursin was born in Iberville Parish in November 1811, an infant son, name unrecorded, died a few days after his birth in December 1813, Jean Trasimond, called Trasimond, was born in April 1818, and Adolphe Pierre or Pierre Adolphe in August 1827.  Their daughters married into the Brown, LeBlanc, and Ross families.  Pierre died near St. Gabriel in June 1851, age 65. 

2a

Trasimond married Domitille, daughter of Spanish Creole Antoine Lopez and his Acadian wife Elisa Comeaux, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1848.  Their son Magloire was born in Iberville Parish in October 1848, Antonio Oscar in January 1850 but died the following July, Pierre Alexandre was born in June 1851, Philippe de Osselis in August 1858, Marcel Alonzo in November 1860, Joseph Dhema in November 1865, and Trasimond, fils in November 1867. 

2b

Adolphe married Carmelite Telcide, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Augustin Hébert and his Creole wife Carmelite Gareuil, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in January 1854.  Their son Paul Ostere was born in Iberville Parish in November 1854, Pierre Enos in August 1857, Henry Alphonse in July 1860, Alfred in March 1863, twins Amédée and Émile in February 1867, and Joseph Armand in November 1869. 

3

Hubert, born at St.-Gabriel in July 1796, died near St. Gabriel in April 1827, age 30, and probably did not marry.  

4

Youngest son Victor, born at St. Gabriel in June 1801, died at age 15 months in October 1802.  

Descendants of Étienne BABIN (c1749-1788; Antoine, Vincent)

Étienne, son of Joseph Babin and Anne-Marie Landry, born probably at Pigiguit in c1749, came to Louisiana from Maryland in July 1767 with his widowed father and two siblings and followed them to St.-Gabriel, where he married a woman whose name has been lost to history.  Evidently she gave him no children.  He remarried to Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure LeBlanc and Marie Thériot, at St.-Jacques, downriver from St.-Gabriel, in January 1778.  Their daughters married into the Lacave, Lopez, and Seguinaud families.  Étienne died at St.-Gabriel in December 1788; he was only 39 years old.  None of his five sons seems to have married, so this branch of the family, except for its blood, probably did not survive in the Bayou State.  

1

Oldest son Joseph, by his father's second wife, born at St.-Gabriel in October 1778, died at age 10 months in 1779.  

2

Isaac, by his father's second wife, born at St.-Gabriel in September 1780, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1844.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Isaac died at "age 63 yrs., unmarried."  One wonders if Isaac ever had a wife. 

3

Joseph-Bénoni, by his father's second wife, born at St.-Gabriel in December 1781, died at age 3 in October 1784.  

4

Augustin, by his father's second wife, born at St.-Gabriel in March 1786, may have been the Auguste Babin who died near St. Gabriel in March 1827.  If so he would have been age 41.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Auguste's parents' names or mention a wife.  

5

Youngest son Louis-Raphaël, by his father's second wife, born at St.-Gabriel in January 1788, may have died young.  

Cyprien BABIN (c1750-1814; Antoine, Vincent)

Cyprien, youngest son of Joseph Babin and Anne-Marie Landry, born probably at Pigiguit in c1750, came to Louisiana from Maryland in July 1767 with his widowed father and two siblings and followed them to St.-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 his burial said that Cyprien was age 70 when he died, but he was closer to 64.  He never married.  

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Three Babin families--an individual, a Babin wife, and a widow, 19 more members of the family--came from Port Tobacco, Maryland, in February 1768 with the extended  family led by brothers Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit.   Spanish Governor Ulloa insisted that they go to the new outpost at San Luìs de Natchez, far upriver from the other Acadian settlements.  The Breau brothers refused and went into hiding to avoid deportation at the hands of the angry governor.  The Babins and other members of the Breau party reluctantly moved to the new settlement.  This dispute was one reason why Acadians joined the French Creoles in a revolt against Ulloa in October 1768.  The next year, after he suppressed the rebellion, Ulloa's successor, General Alejandro O'Reilly, allowed the Natchez Acadians to abandon Fort San Luìs and move to other settlements closer to their relatives.  Most of them went to Ascension:   

Catherine Landry, age 48, widow of Antoine Babin, came with seven children--Claire, age 24; Louise, age 22; Firmin, age 21; Charles, age 18; Rose, age 14; Élisabeth or Isabelle, age 4; and Marie, age unrecorded.  After the Acadians abandoned San Luìs de Natchez, she took her family to Ascension.  Her daughters married into the Breau, Dies, Dugas, and Guédry families.  Some of them stayed at Ascension, and others, including Claire, moved to the western prairies with their husbands.  Her sons settled at Ascension.  

Joseph Babin, age 38, came with wife Rosalie Babin, age 31, two children--Simon, age 5; and Marie-Rose, age 2--and his younger brother Joseph le jeune, age 21.  They settled at San Luìs de Natchez and then at Ascension.  

Marguerite Babin, age 38, widow of Alexis Comeau, came with three sons and a daughter.  

Marie Babin, age 28, came with husband Mathurin Landry, age 34, and two children.  

François-Marie Babin, age 26, Catherine Landry's oldest son, came with wife Marguerite-Hélène Breau, age 31, two sons--Charles, age 4; and Paul, an infant--and two young orphans, Babin siblings Mathurin, age 12; and Anne, age 7.  They settled at San Luìs de Natchez and then at Ascension, where one of their sons and Mathurin also settled.  Anne married fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Melançon at Ascension in April 1787.  

Olivier Babin, age 18, also an orphan, came alone and followed the Breau party to San Luìs de Natchez.  

Descendants of Joseph BABIN l'aîné (c1730-late 1760s or early 1770s; Antoine, ?)

Joseph Babin l'aîné, born at Minas in c1730, married Rosalie, daughter of Paul Babin and Marie Landry, probably in Maryland.  They came to Louisiana from Maryland in February 1768 with two young children--a son, age 5; and daughter Marie-Rose, age 2--and his younger brother Joseph le jeune and followed the Breau party to Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  After the Acadians were allowed to leave Natchez, they moved to St.-Gabriel, where Rosalie remarried to an Hébert widower in January 1773.  His only son died young, and his daughter also may not have survived childhood, so this line of the family did not survive in the Bayou State.  

Simon, born in Maryland in c1763, died at age 5 at San Luìs de Natchez soon after reaching Louisiana. 

Joseph BABIN le jeune (c1754-?; Antoine, ?)

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.  He followed them to San Luìs de Natchez.  He may not have married.  

Descendants of François-Marie BABIN (c1742-1796; Antoine, Vincent)

François-Marie, eldest son of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born at Minas in c1742, came to Louisiana from Maryland in February 1768 with his wife Marguerite-Hélène, called Hélène, daughter of Amand Breau and Marie Landry of Pigiguit, who he had married in Maryland in c1763, two small sons, and two young orphans.  They settled at San Luìs de Natchez and then, after the Acadians were allowed to leave the place, moved to Ascension and then to St.-Gabriel, where they had more children.  Their daughters, one of them baptized at New Orleans in April 1772, married into the LeBlanc (French Canadian, not Acadian) and Rivet families.  François died at St.-Gabriel in October 1796, age 54.  His oldest son remained on the river, though a grandson moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.  His middle son's line, except for its blood, died out early.  His youngest son left the river and moved to Terrebonne Parish.  

1

Oldest son Charles, born in Maryland in c1765, married Madeleine-Angélique, called Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Paul Foret and Marguerite Orillion, at St.-Gabriel, on the river above Ascension, in January 1801.  Their son Charles-Édouard was born at St.-Gabriel in October 1801, Joseph Arsène, called Arsène, a twin, in February 1805, more twins, perhaps one or both of them sons, names unrecorded, died a day after their birth in November 1806, an infant, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died in October 1809, and Zéphirin Napoléon was born in August 1812.  Their daughter married into the Dugas family.  Charles, père died in Ascension Parish in December 1826, age 61.  Two of his sons settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

1a

Charles Édouard, called Édouard, married cousin Mathilde, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian 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, and had many sons there.  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. 

1b

Joseph Arsène married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of François Constant Peignier and Rosalie Foutelet, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1837.  They also settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

2

Paul, born in Maryland in August 1767, married Marguerite-Pélagie, another daughter of Michel Dugas, at Ascension in April 1802.  They settled near the boundary of what became Ascension and Iberville parishes.  Their son Valéry Joseph or Joseph Valéry was born in April 1804, and Jean or Paul Laurent in August 1806 but died at age 7 in August 1813.  Their daughters married into the Babin and L'Alemand families.  

Joseph Valéry died in Ascension Parish in January 1824, age 20, and probably did not marry.  His father's line of the family, except for its blood, likely died with him.  

3

Youngest son François, born at Ascension in May 1774, married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Broussard and Madeleine Landry, at Ascension in April 1799, and 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.  In the early 1820s, Francois moved his family to what became Terrebonne Parish, where many of his children also settled.

Descendants of Firmin BABIN (c1747-1790s; Antoine, Vincent)

Firmin, second son of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born at Minas in c1747, came to Louisiana from Maryland in February 1768 with his widowed mother and siblings.  He followed them to 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. After the Acadians left Natchez later that year, Firmin and Bibianne followed his family to Ascension.  Their daughters married into the Hébert, Landry, and Lavergne families.  Firmin remarried to Isabelle, daughter of Arche Brousse or Brusse, at Ascension in November 1781.  She gave him more children.  In 1788, they were living on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension.  Their daughter married into the Dugas family.  Firmin died at Ascension by January 1792, when his wife remarried there; he would have been in his mid 40s that year.  His two oldest sons settled on Bayou Lafourche, but his younger sons remained on the river.  

1

Oldest son Paul-Firmin, by his father's first wife, born at San Luìs de Natchez in c1770, married Dorothée, daughter of German Creole Joseph Pichoff and his Creole wife Marguerite Bilique of the Upper German Coast, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in May 1802.  In the late 1810s or 1820s, Paul took his family down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish, where most of his children settled.

2

Joseph-Bénoni, called Bénoni, from his father's first wife, born at Ascension in January 1774, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc, at Ascension in July 1800.  In the 1820s, they moved to Lafourche Interior Parish, where most of their children also settled.  

3

Pierre-Firmin, called Firmin, from his father's first wife, born at Ascension in December 1775, died at age 17 in October 1792.   

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Simon-Théodore, by his father's second wife, born at Ascension in December 1782, married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marie Babin, at Ascension in February 1805.  Their son Raphaël Simon or Simon Raphaël was born at Ascension in September 1806 but died at age 2 in July 1809, and an infant son, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in October 1811.  Their daughters married into the Lamarre and Landry families.  Simon Théodore remarried to cousin Henriette, also called Sidalie, daughter of Joseph Babin and Olide LeBlanc and widow of Firmin Landry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1815.  Their son François Gédéon, called Gédéon, was born in Ascension Parish in October 1824.  Their daughters married Babin and Landry cousins.  Simon Théodore died in Ascension Parish in November 1842; the priest who recorded his burial said that Simon died at "age 66 yrs.," but he was 59. 

Gédéon, by his father's second wife, married fellow Acadian Clémence Guidry probably in Ascension Parish in the late 1840s.  Their son François Numa was born in Ascension Parish in April 1851, Albert Séverin in October 1853, Pierre Dorza in December 1855, and Alexandre in March 1858.

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François le jeune, by his father's second wife, born at Ascension in March 1785, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Braud and Monique Guidry, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in October 1813.  Their infant child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died at age 2 months in August 1818, Joseph Pierre was born near St. Gabriel in June 1819, Simon Missael or Marcellus, called Marcellus, in January 1823, and Henri Dreville or Treville in March 1825 but died at age 3 in July 1828.  François died near St. Gabriel in June 1835; the priest who recorded his burial said that François was age 45 when he died, but he was 50. 

Marcellus married Marie Amenaïde, called Amenaïde, daughter of Alexandre Reine and Marguerite Poché, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in June 1841.  They lived near the boundary between Iberville and Ascension parishes.  Their son Joseph Marcellus was born in February 1845, Laurent died at age 18 months in April 1852, and Calixte was born in October 1859. 

Joseph Marcellus married Marie Lezida, called Nizida, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Braud and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in February 1869.  Their son Pierre Amilcar was born near Gonzales in August 1870. 

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Youngest son Joseph-Toussaint, by his father's second wife, born at Ascension in November 1789, died at age 1 in September 1790.

Charles BABIN (c1750-1773? 1779?; Antoine, Vincent)

Charles, third and youngest son of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born at Minas in c1750, came to Louisiana from Maryland in February 1768 with his widowed mother and siblings.  He followed them to San Luìs de Natchez and then to 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 burial did not give Charles's age or his parents' names, nor did he mention a wife. 

Descendants of Olivier BABIN (c1750-?; Antoine, ?)

Olivier Babin, born at Minas in c1750, came to Louisiana from Maryland in February 1768 as an 18-year-old orphan with the family of Pierre Guédry.  He followed the rest of the Breau party to San Luìs de Natchez, where he married Marie Breau.  They departed Natchez with the other Acadians and settled at St.-Gabriel among their many cousins already there.  A daughter may have married into the LeBlanc family.

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Older son Jacques, born at New Orleans in February 1770, may have died young.

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Younger son Jean-Baptiste-Olivier, born at St.-Gabriel in March 1773, may have been the Jean Baptiste Babin, "widower," who died in Terrebonne Parish at age 77 in January 1850.  If so, who had he married?  And who were his children, if he had any?

Mathurin BABIN (c1756-?; Antoine, ?)

Mathurin Babin, born in Maryland in c1756, came to Louisiana from Maryland in February 1768 as an orphan with his younger sister Anne and the family of kinsman Francois-Marie Babin and followed them to San Luìs de Natchez.  He may not have married.  

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The arrival dates of several Babins who settled on the river during the late colonial period are difficult to pinpoint:

Rosalie Babin, widow of Joseph Babin, was age 25 when she married Ignace, son of fellow Acadian Guillaume Hébert and widow of Marie LeBlanc, at St.-Gabriel in January 1773.  Spanish officials found them on the "left bank ascending" at St.-Gabriel in 1777 with an 18-year-old son from Ignace's first marriage.  Rosalie gave Ignace no more children and probably had no children from her first marriage.  

Marguerite Babin married fellow Acadian Joseph Landry, widower of Madeleine LeBlanc, at Ascension in November 1781.  

Marguerite, daughter of Dominique Babin, married Joseph, son of fellow Acadian Pierre Clouâtre, at St.-Gabriel in June 1780.  Her brothers Ignace and Paul had come to Louisiana in 1767, so she may have come with them.  She died by February 1787, when her husband remarried at St.-Gabriel.  

Madeleine-Marthe, another daughter of Dominique Babin, was age 16 when she married Paul, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Richard, at St.-Jacques in February 1777.  She died at nearby St.-Gabriel in April 1796,a ge 35.  She, too, may have come to Louisiana in 1767 with her older brothers Ignace and Paul.  She would have been only 6 years old then.  

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 St.-Gabriel; he was age 23 and still a bachelor.  

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In the early 1780s, when the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, most of the Babins in France chose to stay in the mother country.  However, four, perhaps five, of them took up the Spanish offer and sailed to Louisiana on at least three of the Seven Ships of 1785.  All of them chose to go to river communities, but few of them stayed there:  

Marie Babin, age 24, crossed aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July.  With her were husband Louis-William Stebens, age 36, of Boston, Massachusetts, whom she had married in France, three of their children, and her younger brother.  They followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to Manchac coast, south of Baton Rouge.  Spanish officials counted them near Baton Rouge in 1788.  By the early 1790s, however, they had moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.  

François-Marie Babin, age 19, crossed on La Bon Papa with the family of his older sister Marie.  He followed his sister's family to the Manchac and also moved to upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1790s.  Marie's family moved there, too.

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François-Marie and Marie's brother Simon, also called Magloire, age 23, still a bachelor, stowed away on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November.  Simon joined his siblings at Manchac and married twice at nearby Baton Rouge before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche.  His sons, however, remained on the river.    

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Paul Babin, age 52, who may have been the one who had gone from France to the Falkland Islands in 1765, sailed with the family of his widowed brother-in-law René Landry aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in December.  He followed his relatives and the majority of the passengers from their ship to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge.  Paul probably did not marry.  

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Bonaventure Babin, who would have been age 26 in 1785, likely crossed on one of the Seven Ships though he appears on none of their passenger rolls. 

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The Babins from France added only one more line to the center of family settlement on the river, but it was a substantial one: 

Descendants of Magloire-Simon or Simon-Magloire BABIN (1762-c1833; Antoine, Charles, Jean)

Magloire-Simon or Simon-Magloire, called Simon, elder son of Simon Babin and his first wife Anastasie Thériot, born in England in January 1762, came to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, perhaps as a stowaway and joined his younger siblings at Manchac, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Lejeune and his first wife Marie Carret, in June 1787.  Marie-Madeleine had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships.  She gave him no children, or none who lived.  Simon remarried to Anne-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Quimine and his first wife Marie-Louise Grossin, at Manchac in December 1789.  Anne also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa.  Their daughter married into the Daigre family.  In the early 1800s, Simon and Anne moved to the upper Bayou Lafourche valley, where he remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Achée and Anne Boudreaux and widow of François Sevin, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1822; Simon was 60 years old.  Marie-Jeanne, like Simon's other wives, also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa.  Simon's succession inventory was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1833; the parish clerk who recorded his succession noted that Simon was age 56 at the time of the filing, but he was closer to 71.  His sons remained on the river and settled in Iberville, East Baton Rouge, and West Baton Rouge parishes.  

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Oldest son Auguste or Augustin, by his father's second wife, born probably at Manchac in the early 1790s, married fellow Acadian Théotiste Templet probably at Manchac in the early 1810s.  Their son Treville was born at Manchac in February 1814.  Their daughter married into the Labadiole family. 

Treville married Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore and Léonore, daughter of French Creoles Valéry Bergeron 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.  Their son Léon Treville was born in March 1840, Treville, fils in July 1846, Alphonse in April 1849, Auguste Valéry in July 1853, and Louis Martial in July 1855.  Their daughter married into the Eckles and Simoneaux families. 

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Placide, by his father's second wife, born at Manchac in November 1793, married Marie Arthémise, called Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean André Grégoire Marie Templet, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1816.  Their son Valsin Derosin, called Derosin, was baptized at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, age unrecorded, in March 1824.  They also had a son named Florentin.  Their daughters married into the Doiron and Hébert families. 

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Florentin married Cerasine, daughter of Louis Terence De Richebourg and his Acadian wife Mathilde Granger, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1847.  Did they have any children? 

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Derosin married Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Élie Hyacinthe Lejeune and his Creole wife Eléonore Aillet, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1861.

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Paul-Joachim, by his father's second wife, born at Manchac in February 1796, married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Lejeune and Marie Doiron, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in September 1817.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their son Hermogène or Armogène was baptized at the St. Gabriel church, age 8 months, in May 1820, Philogène was born in November 1822, Antoine Coriolan or Coriolas in June 1824, Joseph Alfred, called Alfred, in November 1830, and Auguste in February 1834.  They also had a son named Paulin.  Their daughter married into the Foret family.  Paul died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in September 1853, age 57. 

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Hermogène married Célestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Dorville Landry and Aureline Daigle, of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1844.  Their son Jean Armand was born near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1846.  Their daughter married into the Hébert family.  Hermogène 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 son Samuel David was born near Brusly in December 1854, Paul Émile in June 1858, Jean Homere in June 1859, and Pierre Olivier in November 1861.  In his late 40s, Hermogène remarried again--his third marriage--to Adolphine, daughter of Anglo American Isaac Gibson and his Acadian wife his Acadian wife Euphrosie Templet and widow of Thomas C. White, at the Brusly church in May 1867. 

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Antoine Coriolan married Gertrude Ernestine, called Ernestine, daughter of fellow Acadians Magloire Dupuy, fils and Eugènie Hébert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1852.  Their son Paul Louis Hotaire was born near Brusly in July 1853, and Laurent Émile in August 1860. 

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Alfred married Amelie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Landry and Henriette Hébert and widow of Aristide Hébert and Maximilien Trosclair, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1860.

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Paulin married Elodie, daughter of Jean Alexandrie and his Acadian wife Emerante Foret, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1861; Elodie's mother was a Foret.

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Youngest son Eusilien, also called Louis, from his father's second wife, born at Manchac in February 1798, married Marie Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadidans Joseph Doiron, fils and Rosalie Bourg of West Baton Rouge Parish, probably at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in the late 1810s.  One wonders if Eusilien and his wife had any children, at least any who survived childhood. 

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A Babin not found on any of the Seven Ships passenger rolls failed to create a family line that survived in the Bayou State: 

Bonaventure BABIN (1759-1815; Antoine, Charles, Claude)

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 at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo from 1763-65, 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 the family returned to St.-Servan.  Bonaventure's family--his mother probably was a widow by then--returned to greater Acadia probably in the early 1780s and settled on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Bonaventure, who would have been in his late teens or early 20s when his family departed, 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' expedtions, he likely followed his fellow Acadians to Louisiana in 1785.  What is certain is that in November 1788, a month before Joseph Gravois's La Brigitte reached Louisiana carrying his widowed mother Marine LeBlanc and five of her Babin children, a Bonaventure Babin married Félicité, daughter of Acadian René Landry and his first wife Marie Thériot and widow of Charles Melançon, at Ascension.  Unfortunately, the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the groom's parents' names, but it likely was Bonaventure of England and France.  He fathered at least two sons by Félicité Landry, but the boys' baptismal records, as transcribed by the Diocese of Baton Rouge, do not give the father's parents' names.  The baptismal record of the older son, however, says the boy's godfather was Moyses, probably Pierre-Moïse, a son of Joseph Babin and Marine LeBlanc and a younger brother of the Bonnaventure Babin born in England.  Louisiana church records reveal that a Bonaventure Babin died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May 1815, age 65.  Bonaventure, son of Joseph and Marine, would have been age 55 at the time, so one wonders if the St. Gabriel priest recorded the wrong age.  One of Bonaventure's sons did not survive childhood, and the other also may have died young, so this branch of the family did not endure.  

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Older son Casimir, born at Ascension in September 1789, the day his paternal grandmother died, and may have died young.  

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Younger son Valéry, born at Ascension in December 1791, died at age 7 months the following August.  

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The last group of Babins to come to Louisiana--six of them--did so in a unique way.  During Le Grand Dérangement, Marine LeBlanc, wife of Joseph Babin of Grand-Pré, became a widow either in France or after her family returned to North America.  In 1788, Marine, now age 52, and five of her children were living on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Joseph Gravois of Chignecto, probably a kinsman, was captain of the schooner La Brigite.  Marine and her five Babin children--Marie-Victoire, age 25, François-Laurent, age 22, Pierre-Moïse, age 20, Anne-Marguerite, age 18, and Mathurin-Louis, age 15--and 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 bayou country.  Anne-Marguerite married Valentin-Désiré, son of fellow Acadians Amand Richard and Marie Breaux and widower of Susanne Marique, at St.-Jacques on the river in July.  One wonders what became of her other siblings. 

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Early in the antebellum period, in 1809, while Louisiana was still 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 1760s and settled in the French colony of St.-Domingue, today's Haiti.  Among these refugees may have been Victoire, daughter of Chares Babin and Marie Hébert, who married Anglo American Lewis Morrow of Boston, Massachusetts, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in September 1816.  The priest who recorded the marriage called Victoire a "nat. of St. Nicolas, Santo Domingo."  One wonders if she was the Victoire Babin who died in Ascension Parish at age 81 in September 1862; the priest who recorded her funeral did not give her parents' names or even mention a husband. 

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In a reversal of the usual Acadian settlement pattern, Babins from upper Bayou Lafourche "returned" to the river during the antebellum and immediate post war periods: 

Descendants of Firmin Henri BABIN (1804-?; Antoine, Vincent, Antoine, François-Marie)

Firmin Henri, second son of François Babin and his first wife Henriette Broussard, born at Ascension in July 1804, followed his family to Terrebonne Parish in the early 1820s but married cousin Renée or Rosalie Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1830; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry; Rosalie was a sister of Firmin's younger brother Maximilien's wife Adélaïde.  Firmin and Rosalie settled on the river.  Rosalie died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in May 1865; the priest who recorded her burial said that she died at "age 64 years, 9 months."  One wonder if any of their five sons created a family of his own.

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Oldest son Henri Joseph, born in Ascension Parish in July 1831, died in Ascension Parish in August 1848, age 17.

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Vincent Telesphore, called Telesphore, born in Ascension Parish in March 1836, died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in April 1864, age 28, and did not marry. 

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François Dorville, called Dorville, was born in Ascension Parish in February 1839.  During the War of 1861-65, Dorvalle, as he was called by wartime record keepers, 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. 

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Eugène Hilarion, born in Ascension Parish in October 1844, died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in August 1865.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Eugène died at "age ca. 18 years," but he was 21.  He did not marry.  One wonders if his death was war-related. 

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Youngest son Jacques was born in Ascension Parish in c1847 but died at age 3 in October 1850. 

Descendants of François Maximilien BABIN (c1805-1864?; Antoine, Vincent, Antoine, François-Marie)

François Maximilien, called Maximilien, third son of François Babin, fils and his first wife Henriette Broussard, born either at St. Gabriel or Ascension in the mid- or late 1800s, followed his family to Terrebonne Parish in the early 1820s but married cousin Adélaïde, another daughter of Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1836; Adélaïde was a sister of Maximilien's older brother's wife Rosalie.  Maximilien and Adélaïde remained in Ascension Parish.  Maximiliani Babin died near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in February 1864.  One wonders if this was François Maximilien; if so, he would have been in his late 50s. 

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Older son Joseph Maximilien was born in Ascension Parish in March 1837. 

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Younger son François Xavier was born in Ascension Parish in March 1854.

Descendants of Nicolas dit Colin BABIN (1814-1853; Antoine, Jean, Paul, Amand)

Nicolas, also called Colas and Colin, third son of Landry Babin and Marie Louise Landry, born in Ascension Parish in November 1814, followed his parents to upper Bayou Lafourche, but, unlike his older brothers, he did not remain there.  He married Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Gaudin and Rosalie Dugas, at Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, in September 1834.  They settled on the river.  Their daughters married Landry cousins.  Colin died in Ascension Parish in September 1853; he was only 38 years old.  All of his surviving sons settled in Ascension Parish and, like their sisters, most of them married Landrys.   

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Oldest son Marius Nicolas, born in Ascension Parish in December 1838, married Eliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Lodoisca Braud, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in March 1859.

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Pierre Julien, born in Ascension Parish in August 1840, died in September.

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 Édouard Césaire, born in Ascension Parish in August 1841, died at age 2 in October 1843.

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Théodore Jean Baptiste, born probably in Ascension Parish in the early 1840s, married cousin Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Mélanie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1861; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

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 Cyrille Landry, called Landry le jeune, born in Ascension Parish in August 1845, 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. 

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Césaire Trasimond, called Trasimond, born in Ascension Parish in August 1847, married cousin Zelamie, daughter of fellow Acadians Apollinaire Landry and Élise Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1868; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity. 

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Youngest son Sandon Joseph Félix, called Félix S., born in Ascension Parish in October 1850, married first cousin Eugénie A., daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Landry and Ursule Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1869; Eugénie's mother was Félix's maternal aunt, so they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled near Gonzales. 

Descendants of Pierre Destival BABIN (1815-; Antoine, Vincent, Antoine, Firmin)

Pierre Destival, called Destival, fourth son of Paul Firmin Babin and Dorothée Pichoff, born probably in Assumption Parish in February 1815, married Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadian Donat Landry and widow of Placide LeBlanc, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in February 1844.  They remained on the river, settling probably near the boundary of Iberville and Ascension parishes.

Blaise Félix was born in Ascension Parish in February 1847. 

Descendants of Léon Laurent BABIN (1823-; Antoine, Jean, Paul, Amand)

Léon Laurent, sixth son of Louis Babin and Anne Céleste Dugas of Ascension, born in Assumption Parish in August 1823, married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadian Valéry LeBlanc and widow of ____ Chaumere, at the Paincourville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1850; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived near the boundary of Assumption and Ascension parishes on upper Bayou Lafourche before moving to the river.

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Oldest son Léon Boniface was born near Paincourtville in June 1853.

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Louis Jean Baptiste was born in Ascension Parish in December 1854.

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Joseph Hector was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1861.

Descendants of Pierre Derosin BABIN (1835-; Antoine, Vincent, Antoine, Firmin, Paul-Firmin)

Pierre Derosin, called Derosin, third and youngest son of Michel Eugène Babin and Marie Céleste Babin, born in Ascension Parish in February 1835, married Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore, daughter of French Creole Norbert Villeneuve, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1856; Marie's mother was a Landry.  They settled near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, away from the river.  ...

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Oldest son Eugène was born in Ascension Parish in September 1857.

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Alzide N. was born in Ascension Parish in July 1859.

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Adam was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in June 1865. 

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Ulger was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in February 1868. 

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Other BABINs on the River

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link many Babins on the river with known Acadian lines of the family there:

Jean-Charles Babin "of Acadia, Parish of St. Joseph," which was Rivière-aux-Canards in the Minas Basin, died at Ascension in July 1789.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Jean-Charles was age 47 when he died but did not list his parents' names or mention a wife. 

Pierre Babin married Louise Morvant, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Pierre, fils was born at St.-Jacques in October 1791.

Agnès Babin, born in c1734, married fellow Acadian Baptiste Melançon, place and date unrecorded.  Their arrival date is anyone's guess; however, no Agnès Babin can be found on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names.  She may have been a young widow when she came to Louisiana, and Agnès may have been her middle name.  She died near Convent, St. James Parish, in March 1814.  The priest who recorded her burial said that she was a native of Acadia, a widow, and was age 80 when she died, but, sadly, he did not give her parents' names.  

Joseph Babin died near Baton Rouge in May 1830.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died at "age 55 yrs." but did not give his parents' names or mention a wife. 

Pierre Augustin Babin died in Ascension Parish in June 1836, age 3.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names. 

Jean Philippe Babin married Marguerite A. Babin in a civil ceremony probably near Baton Rouge in the 1830s.  Their daughter Rosalie was born near Baton Rouge in April 1838. 

Rosalie Babin, widow of Joseph Butler, died in Ascension Parish in October 1840, age 68.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names. 

Eugène Babin died in Ascension Parish in November 1841.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial said that Eugène died at "age ca. 28 yrs." but did not give his parents' names or mention a wife. 

Grégoire N. Babin married Virginie or Virginia Hébert, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Rosalie was born near Baton Rouge in June 1842, son Joseph in December 1849, and Jean Baptiste Winfield Scott in November 1852. 

Élisabeth Babin's son Joseph died in Ascension Parish, age 5 months, in June 1849, son John Dorecar was born in September 1853, and another child, name unrecorded, died at age 2 1/2 in July 1858.  The Donaldsonville priest or priests who recorded the children's burials and baptism did not give the father's name or mention Élisabeth's parents. 

Colin, son of Joseph Babin, died in St. James Parish in July 1851, age 3.  The St. James church priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the mother's name. 

Céleste Babin gave birth to son Joseph Théodule in Ascension Parish in March 1852.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the boy's baptism the following June did not give the father's name or mention Céleste's parents. 

Pierre Paul Babin died near Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish, in October 1853.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre Paul died at "age 42" but did not give his parents' names or mention a wife. 

Evariste Babin married cousin Marie Élodie, called Élodie, Babin, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Jean Aulibert was born in Ascension Parish in January 1854, and daughter Thérèse Élodia in October 1858. 

Joseph Babin married Marie Louise Peña, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Octavie married into the Garcia family in Ascension Parish in January 1856. 

Marie Modeste Babin, wife of Joseph LeBlanc, died in Ascension Parish, age 58, in June 1856.  One wonder who was her father. 

Joseph Babin married Nanette Boudreaux, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Geneivèfe was born in Ascension Parish in June 1857.  One wonders if she was Anne dite Nanette Boudreaux, widow of Pierre Casimir Babin, who died in April 1853. 

Joseph Babin married Aglaé, perhaps Marie Aglaé, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Gautreaux and Euphémie LeBlanc of St. James Parish,, at the St. James church in December 1857; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of affinity in order to marry.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names.  They lived on the river near the boundary between St. James and Ascension parishes.  Their son Joseph D'Auxilia was born in October 1858, Alexandre Albert in February 1860 but, called Albert, died at age 15 months in May 1861, Joseph Fernand was born in October 1861, Louis in c1863 but died at age 4 in May 1867, daughter Marie Luce in February 1865, Marie Odile in February 1868; and son  Joseph, fils in April 1870.

A son of Élizabeth Babin died in Ascension Parish, age 2 1/2, in July 1858.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial did not give the child's father's name. 

Gédéon Babin married Clémence Guédry, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Lucia was born in Ascension Parish in October 1859, and Marie Julia in June 1862. 

Adélaïde Babin married Adolphe Blouin at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in July 1861.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parent's names. 

Eugène Babin died in Ascension Parish in January 1862.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Eugène died a "widow, age 64 years."  One wonders who he married.  

Carmélite Babin married Augustin Suarez in a civil ceremony probably in Ascension Parish before sanctifying the marriage at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in March 1862.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names. 

William Babin married Mary ____, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Thomas was born near Baton Rouge in March 1862. 

A son, name and age unrecorded, described only as a "child," of Raphaël Babin, "res. of the Prairie," died in Ascension Parish in August 1863.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the mother's name.

Theresina Babin died in Ascension Parish, age 17, in January 1864.  Was her death war-related?  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names. 

Félicia Babin died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 6 months, in June 1864.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names.

 Sosthène Babin married Louise Landry, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Jean Alcé was born in Ascension Parish in July 1864. 

Rosalie Babin gave birth to daughter Marie Julia, perhaps a "natural" child, near Gonzales in December 1864.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give the father's name or the mother's parents' names. 

Ella Babin died near Baton Rouge, "age omitted," in March 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names or mentioned no husband. 

Théodule Evariste Babin married Elodie Marie Babin, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Elesida Eve was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in August 1866. 

Célestine Babin died near Baton Rouge, "age omitted," in September 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names or mentioned no husband. 

Emma Babin died near Baton Rouge, "age omitted," in September 1866.  The priest who recorded the burial, true to form, gave no parents' names or mentioned no husband. 

Antoine Rosémond Babin died in Ascension Parish, age unrecorded, in October 1866.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial did not give the parents' names or the age of the fellow at the time of his passing. 

Hélèn Babin gave birth to daughter Philomène, perhaps a "natural" child, in Ascension Parish in October 1866.  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the baptism the following December, true to form, did not give the girl's father's name nor the mother's parents' names. 

Alceste Babin married Caroline Guédry, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Judith Alzida was born near Gonzales in July 1867. 

A., son of Adolphe Babin, died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age unrecorded, in September 1867.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the mother's name.

Octave Babin married Caroline Lee, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Fanny was born near Baton Rouge in December 1867. 

Treville Babin married Artémise Lacour, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Antoinette Françoise was born near Lakeland, Pointe Coupee Parish, in January 1868. 

M. Ethelvina Babin married cousin Bienvenu Landry at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1869; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. 

Augustine Babin married fellow Acadian Paul Rosémond Landry at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1869.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. 

Rosalie Babin married John Hagans at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1869.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. 

Zéphirin Babin married Edwige Rodrigue at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1869.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  Their son, name and age unrecorded, may have died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1870. 

Francis Babin married Constance Noblet, place and date unrecorded.  Their twin sons Gilbert and Joseph Richard were born near Baton Rouge in February 1870. 

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

Most of the Babins who came to Louisiana in the 1760s remained on the river.  However, five female Babins moved to the western prairies, and three of them stayed:

Two Babin sisters from Halifax followed their widowed mother from Cabanocé/St.-Jacques to the Opelousas District in the late 1760s, but they did not remain there.  Lisa-Marie-Josèphe, called Lise, older daughter of Basile Babin and Anne Sonnier, born probably at Halifax in c1760, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, with her widowed mother and sister in 1765.  They lived at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques before moving to the Opelousas District, where she was raised by her stepfather, Michel Cormier of Chignecto and Opelousas, after her mother died.  She returned to the river and married Jean-Baptiste, fils, son of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Bergeron, père, at St.-Jacques in June 1778.  By the mid-1790s, they had moved to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie-Josèphe, Lise's younger sister, born probably at Halifax in c1764, also went to the Opelousas District with her widowed mother and was raised by her stepfather, Michel Cormier.  Marie-Josèphe was only 15 years old when she married Jean-Charles, son of fellow Acadian Jean Arceneaux, at St.-Jacques in January 1777.  They remained on the river.  Marie remarried to Frenchman Louis Billou of Tonney-Boutonne, Aunis, widower of Ester Chamet and Julie Pourceare, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in December 1814; Marie-Josèphe was in her early 50s.   She died near Convent in May 1820, in her late 50s.

Marie Babin, born in c1744, daughter of perhaps Dominique Babin of Minas, came to Louisiana probably from Maryland in the late 1760s.  She married Claude, son of Charles Martin of Port-Royal, at Attakapas in c1770.  She first appears in the Attakapas census of 1771, age 24, with her husband, a son, and Joseph, son of Dominique Babin, who may have been her brother.  She died at her son Michel Martin's home at La Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in September 1823; she was 80 years old.  

Claire, daughter of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry, born probably at Minas in c1744, came to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768 with her widowed mother and siblings.  She married Pierre, son of Augustin Guidry and Jeanne Hébert of L'Assomption, Pigiguit, at San Luìs de Natchez on the river, followed him downriver to Ascension, and then out to the Opelousas prairie, where she died in June 1780, in her mid-30s.  

Anne-Barbe, called Barbe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Babin and Ursule Landry, born in Maryland in c1756, came to Louisiana in 1768 with her widowed mother and siblings.  She married Joseph, son of fellow Acadian Honoré Melançon, at St.-Jacques on the river and followed him to the Attakapas District, where she died in August 1817, in her early 60s.  

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During the late 1760s or early 1770s, a Babin from the river moved to upper Bayou Teche and created a small western branch of the family:  

Descendants of Joseph BABIN (c1755-1820; Antoine, Vincent, Joseph?)

Joseph, youngest son of Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, born in Maryland in c1755, came to Louisiana probably in 1767 with his older brothers Ignace and Paul.  He probably lived at St.-Gabriel on the river with them before he came to Attakapas, 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.  Joseph appeared again on an Attakapas District militia list in January 1773.  He married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Melançon and Marie Breau, at Attakapas in February 1778.  They settled at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche, near present-day Breaux Bridge.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Savoie, and Sonnier families.  Joseph, père died at his home at La Pointe in October 1820; the priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph died at "age about 60 years," but he was closer to 65.  His second son's family line was especially vigorous. 

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Oldest son Julien, born at Attakapas in September 1786, 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 son Jean or Julien Nelson, called Nelson, was born at La Pointe in October 1809, and a son, name unrecorded, died at his parent's home at La Pointe in January 1819 age 17 days.  Their daughters married into the Decuir and Hébert families.  Julien, père died at his home at La Pointe in October 1819, age 33.  His son settled  near Breaux Bridge. 

Julien Nelson married Marcellite Arthémise, daughter of Charles Cohem, Cohen, Comb, Combe, Come, or Comme and Marie Lavoiolette, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1834.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their son, name unrecorded, died 3 days after his birth in May 1835, Julien Fostin was born in August 1836, Eudgar Numa in March 1838, Charles Orel in October 1842, Omer was baptized at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, age unrecorded, in August 1848, and Jean was born in March 1850.  They also had an older son called Jules N. and Jean Baptiste, unless he was Julien Fostin.  Their daughters married into the Hébert and Romero families.  Nelson's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1867; he would have been age 58 that year. 

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 son Jules Aubin was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1859 but probably died at age 9 1/2 in October 1868, Léonce Numa was born in January 1861, Léonard in June 1863 but died at age 1 1/2 in May 1865, Eugènat was born in January 1866 but died the following August, Adam Omer was born in August 1867 but died at age 2 in September 1868, and Lucas was 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; and, judging by the birth of one of his sons, it would not have been a post-mortem succession. 

Numa, probably Eudgar Numa, married Spanish Creole Marie C. Romero.  Their son Numa Eusèbe was born near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in April 1863. 

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Pierre-Alexandre or Alexandre-Pierre, born at Attakapas in October 1792, married Marie Tarsile, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Thibodeaux and Félicité Bernard of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1817.  Their son Pierre-Alexandre, fils was born at La Pointe in December 1817 but died at age 8 1/2 in January 1830, Placide was born in March 1819, Joseph Dermancourt, called Dermancourt, in November 1820, Charles Sidné in August 1822, Julien le jeune in January 1826, Jean Omer, called Omer and also Amédé, in October 1827, Michel in September 1829, Alexandre, fils in March 1833, Placide Émile, called Émile, in January 1835, and Iréné Théogène, called Théogène, in March 1837.  Their daughters married into the Broussard, Cormier, Guilbeau, Hébert, and Mouton families.  Alexandre, père died in St. Martin Parish in December 1855, age 63; his succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following February. 

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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 near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish.  Their son Charles, fils was baptized at the Breaux Bridge church, age unrecorded, in January 1848, Pierre Egmard was born in January 1852, Joseph Gaston in November 1864, and Luc in October 1868.

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Omer/Amédé married cousin Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadiand Élisée Paul Thibodeaux and Marie Thibodeaux, at the Breaux Bridge church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1851.  They settled near Breaux Bridge.  Their son Omer, fils was born in December 1851, Élisée in May 1860 but died at age 1 1/2 in December 1861, Honoré was born in October 1862, and Oser in January 1865 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1866.  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 even mention a wife, said that Omer died "at age 37 yrs.," but he was 40; his succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in December.

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Michel married Marie Azéma, called Azéma, daughter of French Creole Joseph Allegre and his Acadian wife Marguerite Cormier, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1853.  Their son Gabriel was born in St. Martin Parish in August 1855, Ernest in November 1855[sic], Alexandre le jeune in March 1858, and Michel Alcibiades in December 1860.  Michel's succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in November 1867; he would have been age 38 that year. 

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Dermancourt married Marguerite Cléonise or Cléonide, another daughter of Joseph Allegre and Marguerite Cormier and widow of Achille Sonnier, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1853.  Their son Ubalde was born in St. Martin Parish in May 1854, and Albert in March 1858.

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Émile married Joséphine Letitia, called Letitia, daughter of Joseph Baptiste Castille and Adeleine Nerault and widow of Alexandre Girard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in December 1860. 

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Théogène married Mathilde, daughter of Lucien Decuir and his Acadian wife Cléonise Breaux, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1861.  Their son Joseph Alcide was born near New Iberia in January 1866. 

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Julien le jeune died in St. Martin Parish in May 1864, age 38, and may not have married.  One wonders if his death was war-related. 

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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 would have been 51.  Did he marry? 

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Youngest son Joseph, fils, born at Attakapas in September 1793, probably died young.  

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Other BABINs on the Western Prairies

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Babins in the western parishes to known Acadian lines of the family there:

Joseph Babin married Émilie Frugé, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, by the late 1820s.  He may have been the Joseph Babin who died in St. Martin Parish at age 53 in May 1834.

Édouard Babin married Josephine Frugé, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Édouard, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1830.

Arthémise Babin married Théogène, son of Julien Melançon of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1845.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names.  Arthémise died in St. Martin Parish, age 22, in May 1847, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Again, the St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not give her parents' names.  Her succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1853.  The parish clerk who filed the succession did not give her parents' names, only the name of her husband. 

Amélie Babin died in St. Martin Parish, age 8 months, in November 1853.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names. 

Léopold Babin married Acadian Félicie Broussard, place and date unrecorded.  Their son Henri was born in St. Martin Parish in February 1854. 

Arthémise Leblanc, called a Babin, died in St. Martin Parish, age 46, in September 1855.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not give her parents' names.  Was she a LeBlanc married to a Babin?

Jean Baptiste Babin died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in April 1856.  The priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Jean Baptiste died "at age 25 yrs." 

"Anonyme" Babin, that is, an unnamed newborn, died "at birth" in St. Martin Parish in September 1860.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial did not give the child's parents' names. 

Donguine Babin married Alphonsine Bullard, place and date unrecorded, and settled near Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, by the mid-1860s. 

Jules Babin died in St. Martin Parish "at age 10 mths." in June 1866.  The St. Martinville priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names. 

E. J. Babin married Folbert Johnson in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in March 1869.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. 

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A Babin family that settled near Grand Coteau cannot be linked by local church and civil records to other Babins in the area:

Descendants of Evariste BABIN (?-; Antoine, ?)

Evariste Babin married German Creole Brigitte Stelly.  Their daughter married into the Marks family. ...

Son Joseph married cousin Lauron, daughter of Spanish Creole Jean Baptiste Castille, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in June 1866; Lauron's mother, also, was a Stelly. 

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

During the early 1790s, a Babin from France who had settled on the river moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement: 

Marie Babin, wife of Louis-William Stebens of Boston, Massachusetts, followed him from Baton Rouge to upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1790s.  They settled at Assumption.  She remarried to Charles, son of Joseph Fournier of St.-Thomas, Québec, at Assumption in February 1800.  Her succession inventory was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in December 1829; she would have been 69 years old that year.  

Descendants of François-Marie BABIN (1766-1810s; Antoine, Charles, Jean)

François Marie, younger son of Simon Babin and his first wife Anastasie Thériot and Marie's younger brother, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, in November 1766, came to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, with Marie's family.  He followed them to Manchac, below Baton Rouge, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Ignace Usé and his second wife Cécile Bourg, in December 1786.  Marie-Anne also had come to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa.  They were still living at Manchac in 1788, but by the mid-1790s they had moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, the first Babin family to settle there.  Their daughters married into the Comte or Lecompte, Robichaux, and Toups families.  François's succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1816; he would have been age 50 that year.  

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Oldest son François-Auguste, called Auguste, born at Ascension in January 1792, married Justine, 22-year-old daughter of German Creole André Toups and Marie Dervin and widow of Charles Rome, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1822.  Their son Toussaint Marcellin was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1825, Auguste, fils in December 1830, Justin in February 1837, and Amédée in March 1838.  Their daughters married into the Grabert, Martin, Pertuit, and Robichaux families.

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Toussaint married French Creole Carmelite Grabert probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1840s.  Their son Auguste le jeune was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1847.  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 son Pierre Froisin was born near Raceland in November 1862, Joseph was baptized at the Raceland church, age unrecorded, in January 1865 but died the following day, and Joseph Melous was born in July 1869.  During the War of 1861, 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; the Federals released him in early November. 

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Auguste, fils married Émelia, daughter of Anglo Americans Léonce Walker and Aimée Price, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in March 1855.  Auguste, fils died near Raceland the following July, age 24.  His line of the family died with him. 

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Amédée married French Creole Julie Zulma or Zulema Folse in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in November 1858.  Their son Amédée, fils was born near Raceland in December 1865.  During the War of 1861, Amédée may have served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment Militia; if so, he, along with most of his unit, was captured at Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish in late October 1862 and released by the Federals in early November.

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Justin married Alexina, daughter of Hippolyte Laneuville and Anaïs Texier, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1866.  Their son Robert died near Raceland at age 2 months in September 1866, and Richard was born in September 1869.

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Jean-Baptiste, born at Assumption in July 1797, married Marie Aglae, called Aglae, 21-year-old daughter of Pierre Gisclard and Françoise Mayer, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1828.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1829, and François in July 1832.

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François 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 son Anatole was born in July 1855, Jean Baptiste Arthur in August 1860, Théophile Gustave in October 1862, Augustin Henri in September 1864, Joseph Edwin in August 1868, and François Hamilton in October 1870.

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Jean Baptiste, fils married Roseline, Celine, Phrosite, Osite, or Rosite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin LeBlanc and Marie Lejeune, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Parish, in August 1854; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  Their son Jean Baptiste III was born in Lafourche Parish in December 1858, François was born in c1860 but died at age 3 in April 1864, Joseph Collin was born in October 1861, and Léo Joseph near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1870.

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François, fils, born at Assumption in October 1799, married Elise Euphrosine, called 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, Lafourche Interior Parish, the following February.  Their son Joseph François was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1822, Louis in November 1823, Édouard in February 1827, and Guillaume in March 1829.  

Guillaume, or William, may have married Victoria Ordalie ____.  Their son Joseph William was born near Lockport, Lafourche Parish, in January 1864.

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Youngest son Raphaël-Édouard, born at Assumption in January 1803, 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 his burial said that Édouard was age 43 when he died but did not give his parents' names or mention a wife. 

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During the antebellum period, Babins from Ascension and other river settlements, all of them descendants of the exiles from Maryland and some of them brothers, joined their cousins from France on Bayou Lafourche and added substantially to that center of family settlement.  A few of their descendants returned to the river, but most of them remained in what became Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes:

Descendants of Joseph BABIN (c1769-?; Antoine, Jean, Paul)

Joseph, elder son of Charles Babin of Minas and Madeleine Babin, born either at St.-Jacques or Ascension in c1769, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Godin dit Lincour and Marie-Josèphe Babin, at Ascension in June 1801.  In the 1820s, they moved to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their daughters married into the Babin, Gaudin, Hébert, and LeBoeuf families. 

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Oldest son Joseph Thomas, born at Ascension in December 1804, married Céleste Phelonise, called Phelonise, daughter of French Creole 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 son Joseph Blaise, called Blaise, was born in February 1836, Étienne Eusilien, called Eusilien, in December 1838, and Théodule Éloi in December 1841.  Their daughters married into the Barrios, Bourgeois, Choistre or Choueste, Hébert, and Rhodes families.  Joseph T. died in Terrebonne Parish in July 1863, age 58; a petition for administration of his estate was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1870. 

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Blaise married Milie Gurvillia, Sevelienne, Survilia, or Suvilia, daughter of French Creole 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 son Joseph Narcisse, called Narcisse, was born in Terrebonne Parish in October 1859, and Cez Adorestille in August 1861 but died "at age 5 or 6 mths." the following January.  Blaise died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1866; the priest who recorded his burial said that Blaise died "at age 40 yrs.," but he was 30; a petition for tutorship of his three children was filed at the Houma courthouse in January 1870. 

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Eusilien married Odille, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Broussard and his Creole wife Marie Louise Buquet of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1859.  Their son Jean Celas Elphége was born in Terrebonne Parish in September 1863, and Michel Aristide in September 1866. 

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Jean Evariste, called Evariste, born at Ascension in October 1806, 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, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1833.  They settled at Bayou Cannes or Cane in Terrebonne Parish.  Their son Privat Trasimond was born on Bayou Black in August 1848, and Faustin or Fostin Marcellin in February 1857.  Their daughters married into the Buquet, Hébert, and LeBoeuf families.  Evariste died in Terrebonne Parish in October 1857, age 51; a petition for tutorship of his children was filed at the Houma courthouse in August 1860. 

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Marcellin, born in Ascension Parish in January 1817, married Théotiste, another daughter of Narcisse Marcel and and Céleste Rhodes.  Their son Célestin Théophile was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1843, Marcellin, fils in June 1845, Eusilien in Terrebonne Parish in November 1854, and Narcisse in October 1858.  Their daughter married into the Darce family. 

During the War of 1861-65, Marcellin, fils served in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He married cousin Joséphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Babin and and Angelina Pitre, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1870.

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Youngest son Charles Dominique, called Charles D., Damis, Dom, Domi, Donis, Dumien, and Rami, born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in September 1820, 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 remarried to Spanish Creole Marie Esteve at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1849.  They settled at Petit Caillou and Montegut.  Their twin sons Charles Émile and Joseph Spoda had been born in October 1845, Antoine Florida was born in March 1850, Adam Ernest in November 1856, and Célestin Théophile in December 1866. 

Descendants of Paul-Firmin BABIN (c1770-?; Antoine, Vincent, Antoine)

Paul-Firmin, eldest son of Firmin Babin of Minas and Bibianne Breau, born at San Luìs de Natchez in c1770, married Dorothée, daughter of Joseph Pichoff and Marguerite Bilique of the Upper German Coast, at Assumption in May 1802.  Although their children were baptized at Ascension, they probably were born at Assumption.  One of his sons and a grandson "returned" to the river.  Another son and a grandson settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

1

Oldest son Michel Eugène, called Eugène, born probably at Assumption in May 1805, married cousin Marie Célesie or Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas 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 son Joseph died in Ascension Parish 5 days after his birth in October 1830, Joseph Paul was born in September 1832, and Pierre Derosin, called Derosin, in February 1835.  Their daughters married into the Babin and Villeneuve families.  Eugène may have died in Lafourche Parish in September 1853 during a yellow fever epidemic; if so, he would have been age 48. 

Derosin married Marie Eléonore, called Eléonore, daughter of Norbert Villeneuve and his Acadian wife Marcellite Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1856.  They settled on the river near the boundary between Ascension and St. James parishes. 

2

Marcellin, born probably in Assumption Parish in August 1808, died at age 2 in October 1810.  

3

Paul Victorin, called Victorin, born probably in Assumption Parish in October 1811, 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 son Telesphore was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1841.  Their daughters married into the Agnelly and Lalonde (French Canadian or Foreign French, not Acadian) families; they both settled in St. Landry Parish.  Victorin's only son settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

During the War of 1861-65, Telesphore served in Company H of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He married Marguerite Paola, daughter of Alexis Jolet and Azélie Falgout, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1866.  Their son Jean Franklin was born in Terrebonne Parish in July 1868, and Joseph Ferdinand in July 1870.

4

Pierre Destival, called Destival, born probably in Assumption Parish in February 1815, married Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadian 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. 

5

Youngest son Auguste Alexandre, born probably in Assumption Parish in February 1818, married Eléonore, another daughter of Alexandre Bergeron and Euphroisine Bellanger, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1839.  Their son Leufroi was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1840.  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, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1850; Félicité's mother was a Crochet.  Their son Auguste Adams was born in Terrebonne Parish in April 1850, and Edwin in May 1856.  Their daughters married into the Bacon or Baron and Lester families.  Auguste, père died in Terrebonne Parish in July 1858, age 40. 

Descendants of Joseph-Bénoni BABIN (1774-1836; Antoine, Vincent, Antoine)

Joseph-Bénoni, called Bénoni or Béloni, second son of Firmin Babin of Minas and Bibianne Breau, born at Ascension in January 1774, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc, at Ascension in July 1800, where their children were born.  In the 1820s, they moved to Lafourche Interior Parish, where their children also settled close to their cousins.  Their daughters married into the Babin, Lambert, and LeBlanc families.  Joseph Bénoni died in Ascension Parish in December 1836; the priest who recorded his burial said that Bénoni was age 75 when he died, but he was 62.  

1

Oldest son Joseph, born in Ascension Parish in October 1809, may have died young.  

2

Eugène, born in Ascension Parish in January 1817, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Bergeron and his Creole wife Euphroisine Bellanger, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1838.  Their son Joseph Alexandre was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1839, Valentin le jeune in November 1841, Leufroi Homer in Terrebonne Parish in October 1847, and Eugène Adam in September 1854.

2a

During the War of 1861-65, 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, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1863.  Their son Eugène Augustin was born in Terrebonne Parish in December 1864, and Joseph Albert in November 1868. 

2b

Joseph Alexandre married Marie Elfreda or Elfrida, daughter of Auguste Chete, Echete, or Eschete and Héloise Bellanger of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1864.  Their son Ernest Leufroi was born in Terrebonne Parish in December 1866, and François Xavier in April 1869. 

3

Youngest son Valentin, born in Ascension Parish in April 1820, married Anne Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Clouâtre and Marie Élisabeth Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1840.  One wonders if they had any children, at least any who survived childhood. 

Descendants of François BABIN, fils (1774-1850; Antoine, Vincent, Antoine)

François, fils, third and youngest son of François-Marie Babin of Minas and Marguerite-Hélène Breau, born at Ascension in May 1774, married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Broussard and Madeleine Landry, at Ascension in April 1799.  Their daughter married into the Foret family.  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.  Their daughters married into the Chatanier, Crochet, Olivier, Pitre, and Pye families.  In the early 1820s, François, fils moved his family to what became Terrebonne Parish.  François, fils died in Terrebonne parish in January 1850, age 75; his succession inventory was filed at the Houma courthouse in February.  His older sons settled in Ascension Parish, but his younger ones remained on the southeastern bayous and settled in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Three of his sons married Babin double cousins who were sisters! 

1

Oldest son Louis-Étienne, by his father's first wife, born at St.-Gabriel in October 1801, probably died young.  

2

Firmin Henri, by his father's first wife, born at Ascension in July 1804, married cousin Renée or Rosalie Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, 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.  ...

3

François Maximilien, called Maximilien, from his father's first wife, born either at St. Gabriel or Ascension in the mid- or late 1800s, married cousin Adélaïde, another daughter of Joseph Bénoni Babin and Madeleine Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1836.  They remained in Ascension Parish. 

4

Joseph Dorville, called Dorville, from his father's second wife, born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in December 1811, 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 son Joseph Treville was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1843, and Adam Marc in April 1848.  Their daughter married into the Robichaux family. 

5

Pierre Achille, called Achille, from his father's second wife, born near St. Gabriel in March 1813, married Marie Angelina, called Angelina, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Ambroise Pitre and his Creole wife Rose Adélaïde Lirette, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1836.  Their son Achille Pierre was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1837, Onésime Lloyd, also called James and Lesin, in October 1838, and Damase d'Orvil in Terrebonne Parish in August 1848.  Their daughters married into the Babin and Bonvillain families. 

5a

Achille Pierre married Luvinia, daughter of French Creole Narcisse Marcel and Celestin Rhodes of Terrebonne Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1859.

5b

Onésime married Elvire, daughter of fellow Acadian Léonard Crochet and his Creole wife Élise Pichoff, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1860.  Their son Adam Aubin was born in Terrebonne Parish in March 1864 but died at age 2 1/2 in November 1866. 

6

Dreville Adrien, by his father's second wife, born near St. Gabriel in March 1817, may have died young. 

7

Élie Napoléon, called Napoléon, from his father's second wife, baptized at the St. Gabriel church, age 9 months, in May 1819, 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, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1848.  Their daughter married into the Cadière family. 

8

Louis Théodule, by his father's second wife, born probably in Terrebonne Parish in January 1824, may have died young. 

9

Youngest son Jacques, by his father's second wife, born probably in Terrebonne Parish in July 1828, 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, Terrebonne Parish, in June 1854.  Their son Jacques Justilien was born in Terrebonne Parish in January 1855, François Eugène in November 1856, Jean Marie in November 1862, and Surville Privat, called Privat, in October 1864 but died at age 3 in November 1867.

Descendants of Auguste BABIN (1778-?; Antoine, Jean, Joseph)

Auguste, son of Joseph Babin, fils of Pigiguit and Marie Landry, born at Ascension in November 1778, married Marianne or Anne Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bergeron and Marie Foret of Ascension, at Assumption in May 1800.  They settled in what became Lafourche Interior Parish, although they may have lived for a time at New Orleans.  Their daughters married into the Hébert and Picou families.  Some of Auguste's grandsons settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

1

Oldest son Alexis-Charles, born at Assumption in July 1802, probably died young.  

2

Jean Auguste, called Justin and Augustin, born in Assumption Parish in December 1809, married Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Honoré Breaux, fils and Marie Félicité Richard, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1827.  Their son Eugène Marcellin was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1831, Joseph Hermogène, called Hermogène, in November 1839, and Ozémé Florantin in August 1843.  Their daughters married into the Daigle and Robson families.  In March 1870, Augustin, as the parish clerk called him, donated land to three of his married children. 

2a

Eugène married cousin Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1854; Adèle's mother, also, was a Breaux.  Their son Joseph Augustin was born near Montegut in August 1867.

2b

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; Marie's mother was a LeBlanc.  They settled near Montegut.  Their son Paulin Ozémé was born in July 1865, François Valéry Élie in April 1868, and Joseph Arthur in November 1870.

3

Onésime, called Olésime, Lésime, and Clézime, born in Assumption Parish in May 1816, was living in Terrebonne Parish when he married Pauline, daughter of German Creole François Malbrough and his Acadian wife Madeleine Duhon, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1842; Pauline's mother was a Duhon.  Their son Émile Omer was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1845, Frank Henry in March 1847, Clinton Vega in June 1849, Joseph Ignace in August 1854, and Auguste Washington in September 1855.  Their daughters married into the Lirette and Robichaux families. 

Frank Henry married Théolene, daughter of Émile Fangui or Fanguy and and Uranie Chauvin, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1870.

4

Youngest son François Omer or Homer, also called François Bernard, born in Orleans Parish in c1820, married Estelle Anne or Anne Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Florentin Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marianne Durocher, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1839.  Their son Joseph Numa was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1843.  Their daughters married into the Chauvin and Duplantis families.  François Homer remarried to Eve, 17-year-old daughter of Pierre Bertin Roussel and and Marie Madeleine Alexandre, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1848.  Their son Félicien Léon was born at Bayou Black in June 1849.  François Homer remarried again--his third marriage--to German Creole Ursule Malbrough, widow of Francis Darce, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1856, and remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Victorine, daughter of Jean Baptiste Navarre and his Acadian wife Melicere Guillot and widow of Ulysses Toups, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1867.  Their son Augustin was born near Montegut in December 1867, and Joseph in December 1869. 

Descendants of Landry BABIN (1782-1827; Antoine, Jean, Paul)

Landry, eighth son of Amand Babin and Marie-Anastasie Landry, born at Ascension in November 1782, married cousin Marie-Louise, called Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Landry and Rose Dugas, at Ascension in April 1802.  During the late 1810s or early 1820s, they moved down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their daughters married into the Denoux (also called Gaillard), LeBlanc, Melançon, and Robichaux families.  Landry died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1827; the Thibodaux priest who recorded his burial called him Lanory and said he died "at age 47 yrs.," but he was 44.  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.  

1

Oldest son Édouard Landry, born at Ascension in November 1805, married 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 son Édouard Landry, fils, called Landry le jeune, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1828, Nicolas Émile 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 Casimir, called Casimir, was born in July 1835.  Their daughter married into the Bernier and Juneau families. 

1a

Landry le jeune married Adveline, 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 bayou. 

1b

Joseph Casimir died in Ascension Parish in June 1854.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Casimir was age 20 years when he died, but, like his namesake uncle, he was 18.  He probably did not marry. 

2

Pierre Trasimond, born in Ascension Parish in May 1810, married Marie Estelle, called Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Mathurin Hébert and Élisabeth Madeleine Guillot, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1834.  Their son Pierre, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish at age 3 months in November 1850.  Their daughters married into the Breaux, Landry, Provost, and Simoneaux families, two of them on lower Bayou Teche.  Except for its blood, did this family line survive? 

3

Nicolas, Colas, or Colin, born in Ascension Parish in November 1814, 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 bayou but along the river. 

4

Youngest son Casimir Sifrien, born in Ascension Parish in March 1817, died in Ascension Parish in November 1835, age 18, and probably did not marry.  

Descendants of Louis BABIN (1786-1862; Antoine, Jean, Paul)

Louis, tenth and youngest son of Amand Babin and Marie-Anastasie Landry, born at Ascension in April 1786, 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 of Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Their daughters married into the Dugas and Landry families.  Like his father, Louis had many sons, but nearly half of them died young.  Most of them remained on the upper bayou near the Ascension/Assumption line.  Louis died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in December 1862; the priest who recorded his burial said that Louis died at "age 78 years," but he was 76. 

1

Oldest son Alexandre Louis, born in Ascension Parish in April 1807, married cousin Henriette Phelonise, called Phelonise or Felonise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Marguerite Pélagie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, 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 son Joseph Vileor, called Vileor, was born in March 1833, Jean Osémé, called Osémé, in February 1835, Joseph Telesphore, called Telesphore, in June 1840, and Joseph Achille, called Achille, in January 1843.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc family.  Henriette Phelonise died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1853; the priest who recorded her burial said that Phelonise died at "age 50 years."  Alexandre remarried to Marie Pouponne, called Pouponne, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier LeBlanc and Madeleine Braud, at the Paincourtville church in January 1856; Alexandre was in his late 40s.  Their son Louis Alexandre was born near Paincourtville in March 1859, and Paul Amard in January 1863. 

1a

Vileor, by his father's first wife, died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1855, age 22, and did not marry. 

1b

Osémé, by his father's first wife, married Oside or Ozite, daughter of fellow Acadians Hubert Landry and Victorine LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1861.  Their child, perhaps a son, name and gender 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, at the Paincourtville church in January 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. 

1c

Achille, by his father's first wife, married cousin Noemie, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Landry and Justine Guédry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1867; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Joseph Félix was born near Paincourtville in September 1867, and Joseph Hippolyte in February 1870. 

1d

Telesphore, by his father's first wife, married Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadians Hermogène LeBlanc and Marie Melançon, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1867.  They lived at St. James Parish on the river before returning to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

2

Cyprien Sevin, a twin, born in Ascension Parish in September 1808, died at age 11 in January 1820.

3

Rosémond Ambroise, born in Ascension Parish in May 1812, probably died young. 

4

Eugène Hubert, Hubert Ulgère, or Ulgère Hubert, born in Ascension Parish in March 1814, married cousin Marie Eugènie, called Eugènie, another daughter of Paul Babin and Marguerite Pélagie Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1831.  Their son Joseph François Xavier was born in Ascension Parish in December 1831, Joseph Numa, called Numa, in February 1838, Joseph Aristide, called Aristide, in March 1840, Joseph Félix in March 1842, Édouard Joseph died 8 days after his birth in February 1844, and Joseph Artur was born in November 1845.  Hubert died in Ascension Parish in December 1847, age 33. 

4a

Joseph Numa married cousin Elmire Zoe, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Bujole and Lisa Elmire Gaudin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1859; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

4b

Aristide married Hortance, daughter of Prussian Immigrant Jean Paulin Schomer and his Acadian wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1865; Horance's mother was a LeBlanc.  Their son Aristide Bruno was born in Ascension Parish in June 1866. 

5

Pierre Casimir, called Casimir, born in Ascension Parish in February 1818, married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marie Boudreaux and Anne dite Nanette Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1842.  Their son Édouard Joseph Casimir was born in Ascension Parish in March 1843, Joseph Théodule in June 1844 but died a few weeks later, and Louis Léonce was born in April 1852.  Their daughters married into the Babin and Rougeau families.  Casimir died in Ascension Parish in April 1853; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, and who did not give any parents' names or even mention a wife, said that Casimire died at "age 30 years," but Pierre Casimir would have been 35. 

6

Léon Laurent, born in Assumption Parish in August 1823, married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry LeBlanc and Hortense Landry and widow of Jean Paulin Schomer, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1850; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived near the boundary of Assumption and Ascension parishes before settling on the river. 

7

Joseph Magloire, born in Assumption Parish in February 1826, married cousin Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gautreaux and Henrietta Landry and widow of Joseph LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1854; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.

8

Joseph Faustin, born in Ascension Parish in February 1830, died at age 2 months the following April. 

9

Youngest son François Xavier died in Ascension Parish at age 18 months in June 1833.

Descendants of Jacques-Alexandre BABIN (1783-1849; Antoine, Jean, Joseph)

Jacques-Alexandre, fourth son of Jean-Jacques Babin of Pigiguit and Marguerite Landry, born at Ascension in December 1783, married Julienne, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melançon and and Osite LeBlanc, at nearby St. Jacques in November 1804.  They settled in what became Ascension Parish, perhaps on the upper bayou.  By the early 1820s, they had moved down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Their daughters married into the Bourgeois and Part families.  Jacques died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1849; he was 65 years old; a petition for his succession inventory was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in July.  Five of his seven sons created families of their own and settled in Lafourche Interior Parish. 

1

Oldest son Ursin, also called Justin, born at St.-Jacques in September 1805, married cousin Marcelline, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Bourgeois and Marguerite Babin, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1826.  Their son Ursin Aurelien, called Aurelien, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1826, Joseph Rémi, called Rémi, in August 1828, Jean Onésime, called Onésime, in August 1830, Jacques Justin in August 1833 but died at age 3 1/2 in January 1837, Crescence died at age 2 1/2 in February 1847, Omer Magloire was born in January 1847, Eugène le jeune died 6 days after his birth in November 1849, Trasimond Adam was born in December 1850, and Louis Ernest in August 1852.  They also had a son named Marcellin Maximin.  Their daughters married into the Breaux and Guillot families.

1a

Aurelien married Marie Anaïs, called Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Breaux and Clementine Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1848.  Their son Ursin Léo was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1850.  Their daughter married a Breaux cousin. 

1b

Jean Onésime married Marie Estelle, called Estelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Guillot and Hortense Pélagie Richard, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1852.  Their son Joseph Onésime, fils was born in Lafourche Parish in September 1865.

1c

Rémi died in Lafourche Parish in July 1855, age 26, and may not have married. 

1d

Marcellin Maximin married Angeline or Engeline, another daughter of Paul Breaux and Clementine Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in January 1866.  Their son Joseph Philippe was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1868.

1e

Omer married Odilia, yet another daughter of Paul Breaux and Clementine Robichaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1869. 

2

Jean Jacques le jeune, called Jacques or Jacquin, born at Ascension in November 1806, married Anne Séraphine, called Séraphine, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Marie Boudreaux and Anne Dugas, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1827.  Their son Jérôme Adam, called Adam, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1834, Joseph Augustave in May 1836, Jean Baptiste Laurence, called Laurence, in September 1838, Eugène Delphin, called Delphin, in November 1845, and Jean Jacques, fils near Lockport in October 1853.  Their daughters married into the Badeaux and Gautreaux families. 

2a

Joseph Augustave married Rosema, daughter of fellow Acadian Trasimond Trahan and his Creole wife Virginie Carmouche, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in February 1860.

2b

Laurence married Mathilde, daughter of William Wilton and his Creole wife Marcelline Guitreau, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in September 1860, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in June 1863.  Their son Louis Lawrence was born near Lockport 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. 

2c

Adam married Lise, daughter of fellow Acadian Ursin Savoie, fils and his German Creole wife Azélie Matherne,  in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in November 1860.

2d

Delphin married cousin Eliza, daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Boudreaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1867. 

3

Joseph Oleus, born in Ascension Parish in May 1808, probably died young. 

4

Paul Onésime, called Onésime and Lésime, born in Ascension Parish in January 1810, married Mélasie, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Donat Landry and his Creole wife Geneviève Stieven, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1829.  Their son Paul Onésime, fils was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1830, Jacques Donat, called Donat, in January 1836, Félix Julien in January 1839, and Pierre Euphrosin, called Froisin, in June 1844.  Their daughters married into the Bourgeois (French Creole, not Acadian) and Robichaux families.

4a

Paul Onésime, fils married Eugènie, daughter of French Creoles Edmond Bourgeois and Adèle Baudoin, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1856; one of Paul Onésime's sisters married Eugènie's brother.  Their son Paul III was born near Raceland in February 1857, Félix le jeune in January 1861, Joseph Apollinaire in April 1863, and Pierre Alix in February 1870. 

4b

Donat married Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Furcy Theriot and his Creole wife Marie Autin, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1857.  Their son Justinien was born near Raceland in November 1865. 

4c

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.

4d

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. 

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Jacques Eugène, called Eugène, born in Ascension Parish in November 1811, married Adèle, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Broussard and his Creole wife Anne Stieven, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1832.  Their son Eugène Charles was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1836, Joseph Adélard, called Adélard, in April 1841 but died at age 8 in June 1849, and Pierre Octave, called Octave, was born in January 1844.  Their daughters married into the James and Legendre (Foreign French, not Acadian) families.  Eugène, père died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1849; he was age 38 and a widower; "letters of tutorship" for his children were filed at the Thibodaux courthouse three weeks after his death. 

6

Jacques Alexandre, fils, born near Convent, St. James Parish, in March 1816, probably died young. 

7

Youngest son Louis David, called David, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1821, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marguerite Roger, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1847.  Their son Louis was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1848, David Cleopha died at age 2 months in March 1850, and Joseph David was born posthumously near Lockport in November 1854.  David, père died in Lafourche Parish in October 1854, age 33; a petition for tutorship of his children was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse the following February. 

Louis married Agnès, also called Eme, daughter of fellow Acadians Adélard Boudreaux and Joséphine LeBlanc, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish, in December 1869.

Descendants of Charles-Édouard BABIN (1801-1852; Antoine, Vincent, Antoine, François-Marie)

Charles-Édouard, called Édouard, eldest son of Charles Babin and Marie-Angélique Foret, born at St.-Gabriel in October 1801, married cousin Bathilde, 23-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dugas and Rosalie Foret, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1825; Bathilde's mother, also, was a Foret; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They settled at Bruly in Ascension Parish, near the boundary with Assumption Parish.  Their daughter married into the Hébert family.  Charles 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.  Their daughter married into the Gautreaux family.  Charles Édouard died near Paincourtville in January 1852, age 50.  His youngest son settled on lower Bayou Teche, but his other sons remained on Bayou Lafourche. 

1

Oldest son Joseph Michel, by his father's first wife, born in Ascension Parish in September 1827, died in Assumption Parish at age 4 in July 1831. 

2

Joseph Achille, called Achille, from his father's first wife, born in Ascension Parish in October 1829, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Godefroi Breaux and his Creole wife Rosalie Copelle, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1853.  They settled between Paincourtville and Pierre Part.  Their son Joseph Camille, called Camille, was born in March 1856 but died at age 7 in January 1864, Joseph Théophile was born in April 1858, and Nere Lusignant in May 1861.

3

Joseph Édouard, called Édouard, from his father's first wife, born in Assumption Parish in February 1832, married Laura Angeline, called Angeline, daughter of fellow Acadians Édouard Hébert and Eléonore Giroir, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1854.  They also settled between Paincourtville and Pierre Part.  Their son Joseph Édouard, fils was born in August 1856.  Édouard, père died near Paincourtville in January 1860, age 27. 

4

Joseph Napoléon, by his father's first wife, born in Ascension Parish in April 1833, died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in January 1849, age 15. 

5

Joseph Dernon, called Dernon, from his father's first wife, born in Ascension Parish in July 1835, married cousin Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Eugène Landry and Françoise Landry, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1860; they had to secure a dispensation for third or fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  They lived near the boundary between Assumption and Ascension parishes. 

6

 Joseph Melite, by his father's second wife, was born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in July 1847. 

7

Youngest son Joseph Anatole, called Anatole, from his father's second wife, born near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in April 1849, married Caroline, daughter of fellow Acadian 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. 

Descendants of Joseph Arsène BABIN (1805-1847; Antoine, Vincent, Antoine, François-Marie)

Joseph Arsène, called Arsène, a twin, second son of Charles Babin and Marie-Angélique Foret, born at St. Gabriel in February 1805, married Marie Louise, called Louise, daughter of Francois Constant Peignier and Rosalie Foutelet, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1837.  They settled near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Arsène died near Paincourtville in January 1847; he was only 43 years old.   His only son settled in Ascension Parish, perhaps on the upper bayou. 

Joseph Félix, called Félix, born in Ascension Parish in August 1842, married cousin Amelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Casimir Babin and Nanette Boudreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in December 1868. 

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Other BABINs in the Lafourche/Terrebonne Valley

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Babins in the Bayou Lafourche/Terrebonne valley to known Acadian lines of the family there:

Maximien Marcellin Babin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1839.  The Thibodeaux priest who recorded the burial did not give Maximien's age, his parents' names, or mention a wife.  

Justin Babin married Marguerite Breaux, place and date unrecorded.  Son Ozémé Florantin was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1843. 

Tiburce Babin married French Creole Justine Uranie Bonvillain, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Malvina Uranie was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1845.   

Marie Babin "of Terrebonne Parish" married fellow Acadian Jean Louis Hébert at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1851.  The priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names. 

E. Babin's son, name unrecorded, died in Lafourche Interior Parish at age 7 in March 1852.  Interestingly, the boy's burial was recorded at the Episcopal church in Thibodaux.  The minister who recorded the burial did not give the mother's name. 

Adam Babin married Ordalie Forest, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Cléonise was born in c1857 but died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, age 1, in July 1858. 

Édouard Babin died in Assumption Parish, age 28, in January 1860.  The Paincourtville priest who recorded the burial did not give Édouards's parents' names or mention a wife. 

John Babin married Marie Bertille Larose, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Joséphine was born near Houma, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1862. 

Sophie Babin gave birth to son Georges Peter in Terrebonne Parish in December 1864.  The Houma priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name or Sophie's parents' names. 

Sylvain Babin married Malvina Bergeron in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in June 1865, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1866.  The parish clerk and the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names.  Their daughter Angelina Octavie was born in Terrebonne Parish in May 1867, and son Joseph in January 1870. 

Edward Robinson Babin married Mary Babin, place and date unrecorded.  Edward died by August 1865, when a petition of tutorship for his minor children, John and Mary, was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish. 

Aurile Babin married S. Aubin Darce in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in January 1866.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names. 

Rosalie Babin gave birth to son Théobert Mertilde in Terrebonne Parish in December 1865, and to Émile Jean Louis in September 1869.  The Houma priest who recorded the boys' baptisms did not give the father's name or Rosalie's parents' names. 

Phelonise Babin died in Terrebonne Parish in February 1868.  The Houma priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a husband, or even give her age at the time of her death. 

Adam Babin married Luticia Babin in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in November 1869.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couples' parents' names. 

Franc Babin died in Terrebonne Parish in June 1870.  The priest who recorded the boy's burial said that Franc died "at age 11 yrs." but did not give the boy's parents' names. 

A "male child," age unrecorded, son of Zephyrin Babin, died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in September 1870.  The priest who recorded the child's burial did not give the mother's name. 

NON-ACADIANS FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

Although the great majority of the Babins of South Louisiana are descendants of Antoine of Port-Royal, an important Babin family lived in the colony in its earliest days.  Other non-Acadian Babins lived in Louisiana later in the colonial period: 

Pierre Babin dit La Source came to Old Mobile, then the capital of French Louisiana, by 1706.  He was a native of Laval near Le Mans in northwestern France and was recruited to go to the infant colony by the Chauvin brothers of Canada.  He returned to Canada in late summer 1707 and married Marie-Françoise-Angélique, daughter of master surgeon Jean Jallot, at Montréal in November.  After lingering at Montréal, Détroit, and Kaskaskia, Pierre and his bride journeyed by canoe down the Mississippi and arrived at Mobile in January 1710, where they remained.  After Pierre's death, his widow remarried to Jacques Carrière of Mobile and moved to New Orleans in the late 1710s soon after that settlement was founded.  One of Pierre Babin's daughters married in New Orleans in 1726, but the New Orleans church records do not reveal if Pierre fathered a son.

A Sieur Babin served as "attorney for vacant estates" in the colony during the 1740s. 

René, "surnamed Le Flame," son of René Babin and Françoise Brian, was born at Segres, Anjou, France.  He married Thérèse Senuran and served as a soldier in the company of De Gauvry at New Orleans.  René's wife died in the city, and he remarried to Renotte, daughter of Nicolas Salaun, at New Orleans in January 1732.  The New Orleans church records do not reveal if he and either of his wives had children.  

Another non-Acadian Babin lived at Opelousas and in Pointe Coupée.  Françoise, daughter of François Babin and Marguerite Bossi of Vienne, France, was a resident of Opelousas when she married Louis, son of Jean-Baptiste André and Marguerite Brignac of Alabama, at Pointe Coupée in April 1771.  Jean-Baptiste was what his neighbors called an Allibamont. 

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Babins, who would have been called Foreign French by native Louisianians, emigrated to Louisiana from France and the Caribbean Basin during the antebellum period.  One wonders if any of them were related to the Acadian Babins who had remained in the mother country in 1785:  

In November 1830, a 15-year-old Babin, first name unrecorded, born in France and working as a merchant, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Bolivar from Le Havre, France.

In December 1835, F. Babin, age 30, a merchant and native of France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Daniel H. Miller out of Havana, Cuba.  With him was a 25-year-old female, J. Babin, his sister or, more likely, his wife.  

In January 1836, J. Babin, a 25-year-old merchant born in Nantes, France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Backus out of Matanzas, Cuba.  

In December 1848, Michel Babin, age 29, a farmer and native of France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Flor out of Le Havre, France.  

Édouard Babin, "recently arrived from France," died "at home of [Acadian] Amédée Bourg" near Convent, St. James Parish, in December 1849.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Édouard's parents' names, his age, or mention a wife.  Was Édouard a descendant of Acadian Babins who had remained in France in 1785, or was he yet another Foreign-French member of the family. 

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Some Babins who lived in South Louisiana were the result of the family's participation in the South's peculiar institution:

Flora Babin, a "f.w.o.c.", or free woman of color, married Lewis Wright, a free man of color, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1864. 

Agnès Babin, affranchi, or freed woman, widow of Alexandre, son of Zelia Babin, married Jean Deris, affranchi de Placide Thibodeaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1867. 

CONCLUSION

Babins were among the early settlers of Acadia and some of the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  Dozens of them from the Minas Basin came to the colony from Maryland in 1766, 1767, and 1768.  They settled in large numbers along the river above New Orleans from Cabanocé/St.-Jacques all the way up to 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.  Only a hand full of Acadian Babins came to Louisiana from France in 1785, but they established vigorous lines among their cousins at Manchac near Baton Rouge, and a smaller line on upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1790s.  A Babin family reached the colony in 1788 on a ship from Île St.-Pierre off the southern coast of Newfoundland, but they established no new family lines.  Meanwhile, 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 as Lockport and Montegut in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  A few Babins from the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley moved to lower Bayou Teche and the St. Landry prairies soon after the War of 1861-65.  Most Babins, however, remained on the river along 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 Port-Royal. 

Some of the Babins who remained on their original river holdings created sugar plantations that rivaled in size those of their wealthier French-Creole and Anglo-American neighbors.  Paul P. Babin owned 800 acres in West Baton Rouge Parish in 1860; 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.  Most members of the family held no slaves at all, at least none who appeared in the federal slaves schedules of 1850 and 1860. ...

The family's name also is spelled Babain, Babein, Baden, Baven, Boben, Vaven.  [See Book Ten for the Acadian family's Louisiana "begats"]

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 394, 1092-1100, 1320-22, 1654, 2206, 2316-17, 2408-13; Baudier, The Catholic Church in LA, 143; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:19, 2:12; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 208; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Higginbotham, Old Mobile, 566; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 150-58; Menn, Large Slaveholders of LA, 1860, 145-46; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 9; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, "Family" No. 48; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 8-9; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 29-37; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 424; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 23, 149-50; White, DGFA-1, 57-58; White, DGFA-1 English, 13-14; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 73-82.  

Settlement Abbreviations 
(present-day civil parishes that existed in 1861 are in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community. 

NOTES

01.  Wall of Names, 9, calls him Amand BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2410, the LA section; BRDR, 3:47 (ASC-4, 80), his death/burial record, calls him Aman BABIN, age 76, widower of Anastasia LANDRY, but does not give his parents' names; BRDR, 3:iv (ASC-4, 80), correction of his burial record, calls him Aman BABIN, age 66, widower of Anastasia LANDRY, but does not give his parents' names.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 178; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 157; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 9; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 483.  

Wall of Names includes his son Paul.  If Amand & his wife reached LA in 1766, as the records indicate, then the ages given for Paul in the Cabanocé census of 1769 & the Ascension census of 1770 show that he could not have come with them to LA, even in utero, but was born in the colony in c1768, so I have removed him from this list.  

Amand's estimated birth year is based not on his burial record, which seems to exaggerate his age, but on the Cabanocé/St.-Jacques & Ascension censuses in which he is found.  

02.  Wall of Names, 22, calls her Anne BABIN.

Who were her parents?  She married Paul LEBLANC after he was counted with his parents & siblings at Oxford, MD, in Jul 1763. 

What actually was her name?  She is called Agnès in the baptismal records of daughter Apolonie, sons Augustin, Laurent, another Laurent, & Paul, & grandson Jacques-Evariste LEBLANC, dated 18 Aug 1773, 28 Apr 1776, 25 Oct 1778, 7 Apr 1781, & 19 Apr 1802, in BRDR, 2:460, 471, 481, 483 (SJA-1, 20a, 30a, 53, 58; SJA-3, 235), & son Jacque's marriage record, dated 23 Apr 1792, in BRDR, 2:483 (SJA-2, 14).  So was her name Anne-Agnès or Agnès-Anne, or just Agnès?  Yet the censuses of 1769 & 1777 favor Anne. 

03.  Wall of Names, 23, calls her Anne BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2554, the LA section, gives her husband's parents' names but not her parents' names, & says they were married in c1755 but gives no place of marriage; BRDR, 2:42 (SGA-8, 25, #143), her death/burial record, calls her Anne BABIN, age 79 years, widow of Armand MELANÇON, but does not give her parents' names.   See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 158; Voorhies, J., Some Late-Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 434; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 9.  

Her estimated birth year is from the age given in the Spanish report of 1767, not the ages found in the St.-Gabriel census of 1777 or her burial record. 

Arsenault's date of marriage for her makes no sense in light of the age of their son Joseph, who was 15 in 1767.  Arsenault says they were exiled to "New England," but the fact that she & her family were at Baltimore in 1763 indicates that they were exiled to MD instead, unless Arsenault is following a primary record that says the family lived in "New England," a not unheard of description of MD by French & Spanish priests in LA. 

04.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Anne BABIN, orpheline; BRDR, 2:42, 536 (SJA-2, 3), probably her marriage record, calls her Ana BABEN "of Acadia," calls her husband Juan-Baptista MELANSON "of Acadia," gives no parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Josef LEBLANC & Pélagie DUARON "of this parish." 

Her marriage to Jean-Baptiste MELANÇON, widower of Osite DUPUIS, is pure guess work based on process of elimination.  If this was the Jean-Baptiste MELANÇON that she married, he was exactly twice her age.    

05.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Anne-Barbe BABIN; BRDR, 2:42, 535 (ASC-1, 135), her marriage record, calls her Anna Barbara BABEIN, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says her parents were Acadians, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph BABEIN [probably her brother], Maturin LANDRY, & Michael DUGAST; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:566 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1120), her death/burial record, calls her Barbe LANDRY[sic], "wid. of Joseph MELANÇON," says she died "at age about 66 years at her home at l'ance," that she was buried next day "in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:29 (SMCt.Hse.: Succ. #277), her succession, calls her Barbe BABIN m. Joseph MELANSON, but does not give her parents' names nor list any children.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 176; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 156; Voorhies, J., Some Late-Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 463.

Why is she not in the Cabanocé census of 1769 with the rest of her family? 

Her mother was a LANDRY, so is that why her burial record is in the LANDRY section of Fr.'s Hébert's compilation?  L'ance could have been L'Anse la Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion between present-day Breaux Bridge & Lafayette, or L'Anse la Pointe, also called La Grande Pointe & La Pointe, on upper Bayou Teche near Breaux Bridge. 

06.  Wall of Names, 9, calls her Anne-Genevieve BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2496, says she & Joseph were married 8 Apr 1768; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, & Voorhies, J., Some Late-Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 425, her marriage records, says they were married 11 Apr 1868.

07.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Anne-Marguerite BABIN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 18; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, Family No. 42, 34; BRDR, 2:50, 629 (SJA-2, 50), her marriage record, calls her Margarita BABIN, gives her parents' names, says they were from "Belle Isle, Brittany, France," calls her husband Valerio (Dosited) RICHARD, widower of Susana MARIQUE, gives his parents' names, says they were from "St. Gabriel of Iberville Parish," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Pedro Pablo ARCENAUX, Carlos ARCENAUX, & Eligio LANDRY.  

Her family was supposed to have settled at Ascension after they came to LA from Île St.-Pierre in Dec 1788.  See Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 105, 208. 

08.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Brigitte BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2527, gives her parents' names; BRDR, 2:43 (SGA-8, 33, #180), her death/burial record, calls her Brigette BABIN, age 62 years, widow of Paul-Marie LANDRY, but does not give her parents' names.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 178; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 485; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 10; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7.  

The ages given for her in the censuses at Cabanocé, Ascension, & St.-Gabriel in 1769, 1770, & 1777 differ widely from the age given in her burial record.  The censuses are followed here. 

09.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Charles BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2409, calls his wife Madeleine BABIN.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 178; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 17.  

Why is his wife called Élizabeth BABIN in their marriage record in Bourgeois & Voorhies, J., cited above?  Charles had a sister named Élisabeth-Madeleine, so this could not be her.  None of the other 2 Élisabeth/Isabelle BABINs in Wall of Names fit into this marriage.  The one who was old enough to have married Charles in Mar 1767, daughter of Joseph BABIN, did not reach the colony until July of that year.  If the marriage date was really 2 Mar 1768 instead of 1767, then she would fit nicely.  The other Élisabeth/Isabelle BABIN who came to LA, daughter of Antoine, was only 3 years old in 1767.  Charles's wife could have been another Élisabeth BABIN or a Madeleine BABIN who for some reason is not listed in Wall of Names.  I need a BABIN family historian to help me here.

10.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Charles BABIN; BRDR, 2:43 (ASC-1, 187B-a), his death/burial record, calls him Carlos BABIN, age 22 years, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  

The age given in the burial record of the Carlos, or Charles, BABIN who died at Ascension in Jan 1783 is clear evidence that this was him.  

11.  Wall of Names, 10 (pl. 1L), calls him Charles BABIN, & lists him with his widowed mother & siblings.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 8; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 436.

Note that he is not counted in the Ascension census of 1777 with any of the other BABINs, lending credence to his being the Charles BABIN who died, probably of drowning, in Jun 1774.  See Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 139n45; Robichaux, 9-19.

12.   Wall of Names, 10, calls him Charles BABIN; BRDR, 4:29 (ASC-4, 190), his death/burial record, calls him Charles, "age ca. 60 yrs., a nat. of Maryland," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  

13.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Charles BABIN, oncle, & lists him with Marine LEBLANC veuve Joseph BABIN & her 5 BABIN children.

White, DGFA-1, 59, shows that Charles, fils, son of Charles BABIN, père & Madeleine RICHARD & brother of Claude BABIN, husband of Marguerite DUPUIS & therefore the uncle of Claude's son Joseph, husband of Marine LEBLANC, died at age 25 at Grand-Pré in January 1733, so this Charles must have been an uncle of Marine LEBLANC, not of Joseph BABIN.  Marine's father was Jean LEBLANC & her mother was Anne LANDRY.   

What happened to him in LA?  Is he the Juan Carlos--Jean-Charles--BABIN "of Acadia, Parish of St. Joseph," who died at Ascension, age 47, on 15 Jul 1789?  St.-Joseph Parish was at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  Note that Marine LEBLANC also from Minas.  Moreover, the death date of Jean-Charles BABIN occurred after the arrival of La Brigite in Dec 1788.  Note that Marine & her family also went to Ascension after they reached New Orleans.  See BRDR, 2:49 (ASC-4, 3, #2); Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 105. 

14.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Claire BABIN; BRDR, 1b:8, 82 (PCP-4, 35; PCP-3, 270-271), her marriage record, calls her Claire BABIN, native of Acadia, residing at Natchez, says her husband was native of Acadia, residing at Natchez, gives her & his parents' names but does not give his first wife's name, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Firmin BABIN [her brother], Pierre GUÉDRY [the groom], & Augustin LANDRY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:26 (Opel. Ch.: Folio OA, p.8), her death/burial record, calls her Claire BABIN, "wife of Pierre GUIDRI," does not give her parents' names, & says she was age 28 when she died.  She also appears in Pierre GUIDRY's succession of 19 Nov 1825 (SM Ct.Hse.:  Succ. #543), in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:33. 

The Acadian settlement at San Luis de Natchez did not last long enough to have a church of its own, hence their marriage being recorded at Pointe-Coupée, the closest church to Natchez.  

15.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Cyprien BABIN.  The Spanish report of 1767 & the St.-Gabriel census of 1777 disagree on his age & therefore his birth year.  The earlier record is followed here.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 9; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 432.  His death/burial record in BRDR, 3:49, calls him Cypriano BABIN, single.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 155.

16.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Elisabeth BABIN; BRDR, 2:42, 354, the record of her first marriage, calls her Anne-Isabelle BABIN, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean HEBER, Joseph HEBER, Estienne BABIN (probably her brother), & Maturin LANDRY; BRDR, 2:44, her death/burial record, calls her Elisabeth BABIN, native of Acadia & widow of Thomas HEBERT, & says she was age 57 at the time of her death.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 155.

17.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Élisabeth BABIN; BRDR, 2:56, 155 (ASC-1, 146), the record of her first marriage, calls her Ysabel BABEIN, calls her husband Pablo BRAUD, gives her but not his parents' names, gives his first wife's name, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Armand BRAUD, Abraham LANDRY, & Carlos DUGAST; BRDR, 2:46, 339 (ASC-2, 74), the record of her second marriage, calls her Isabel BABIN, widow of Pierre[sic] BRO, does not give her parents'  names but gives her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Ramon BRAUD, Henriette BLANCHARD, & Joseph LEBLANC dit Dubour; BRDR, 4:31 (ASC-4, 178), her death/burial record, calls her Isabelle BABIN, "age 60 yrs., spouse of Jacques GUIDRY," but does not give her parents' names. 

The birth/baptismal record of daughter Carmelita GUIDRY, dated 5 Jan 1801, in BRDR, 2:338 (ASC-5, 145), calls her Agnès Isabel BABIN.  

18.  Wall of Names, 9 (pl. 1L), calls her Elisabeth-Madeleine BABIN, soeur [of Amand], & lists her with brother Amand & his family & 2 other siblings; BRDR, 3:50 (ASC-4, 104), her death/burial record, calls her Élizabeth Magdelaine BABIN, age 68, nat. Assumption Parish [Pigiguit], Acadia, spouse of Joseph Athanase LANDRY, but does not give her parents' names.

19.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Étienne BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2409, 2410, says he was born in 1736; BRDR, 2:45 (SGA-8, 11, #45), his death/burial record, calls him Estevan BABIN, age 39 years of Canada, spouse of Maria Magdalena DUBLAN, but does not give his parents' names.  See also De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 6; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 155; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth -Century Louisianians, 432.  

20.  Not in Wall of Names.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 9.  

The 1777 St.-Gabriel census reveals clearly that there were 2 Étienne BABINs at St.-Gabriel.  Is this younger Étienne BABIN the one who married Marie-Madeleine LEBLANC in 1778?  If so, he would have been 39 in 1788, the year "Estevan [BABIN], age 39 years of Canada, spouse of Maria Magdalena Dublan" was buried at St.-Gabriel.  See note 19, above.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2410, with a birth year of 1736, does not help solve the puzzle.

Although he is not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names, he can be found on their website at <acadianmemorial.org/ensemble_encore2/default.htm>; use the link marked Life Lines & then use their search engine to find him. 

21.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Firmin BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2410, calls his second wife Isabelle BROUSSARD; BRDR, 1b:8, 28 (PCP-3, 270; PCP-4, 34), the record of his first marriage, calls him Firmin BABIN, native of Acadia, inhabitant of Post St. Louis of the Natchez, calls his wife a native of Acadia, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Pierre GUIDRY, Cécile LANDRY, & Augustin LANDRY; BRDR, 2:45, 164 (ASC-1, 142 & 143), the record of his second marriage, calls him Firmin BABIN, widower of Babiana BRAUD & an Acadian, calls his wife Ysabel BRUSSE, gives her but not his parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Abraham LANDRY, Théodoro DUGAST, & Marino ROBICHO.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 23.

His first marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée because there was no priest at San Luis de Natchez in its brief existence as an Acadian settlement, so priests from Pointe Coupée probably performed baptisms, marriages, & funerals there.  It is the couple's marriage record that states they were inhabitants of "the Post St. Louis of the Natchez."  See BRDR, 1b:8, 28.  

22.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Francois BABIN; BRDR, 2:45 (SGA-8, 20, #108), his death/burial record, calls him Francisco BABIN of Acadia & spouse of Margarita BRAU, but does not give his parents' names.

The baptismal records of granddaughter Francoise-Seraphine, dated 8 Jun 1800, in BRDR, 2:45 (ASC-5, 140), & grandson Zephire Napoleon, dated 22 Aug 1812, in BRDR, 3:64 (SGA-11, 221), call him Francisco Maria/Francois Marie BABIN.  If his full name was Francois-Marie, he should not be confused with the much younger BABIN who also bore that name.  

23.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Francois BABIN, frère de la femme [of Louis STIVIN], & lists him with the family of his sister Marie; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 36-37, Family No. 45, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Francois-Marie BABIN, gives his parents' names, says his godparents were Francois LABBE & Marie FRENEL, & says that his family resided at St.-Servan from 1763-72; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Francois BABIN, frère de la femme [of Louis STIVIN], marin, age 16, on the embarkation list, Francisco BABIN (30th Family), on the debarkation list, & Francois BABIN, brother of the wife [of Louis STEBENS], sailor, age 16, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 29th & 30th families aboard Le Bon Papa with his sister, brother-in-law, & their 3 children; See BRDR, 2:46, 716, 3:51, 846 (SGA-14, 7), his marriage record, calls him Francois BABIN, calls his wife Maria VERET(sic) "USÉ intended," gives his & her parents' names, says her parents were "of St.-Malo, France," but lists no witnesses to his marriage.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 49, 73.  

His birth year is based not on the passenger list of Le Bon Papa but on the ages given in the Assumption censuses of 1795 & 1797.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 49, 73.  

24.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him François-Laurent BABIN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 18, calls him Laurent-François BABIN; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 33, Family No. 42, calls him François-Laurent BABIN.

His family was supposed to have settled at Ascension after they came to LA from Île St.-Pierre in Dec 1788.  See Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 105, 208. 

25.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Genevieve BABIN veuve Amand HEBERT.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 150.

Her husband died on the voyage from Baltimore to New Orleans.  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 430. 

26.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Ignace BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2410, 2411-12, the LA section, calls him Ignace BABIN, says he was born in 1758 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, details his marriages, says he married his first wife in c1778, the same year he married his second wife, says he lived at Manchac in 1778, & lists his children as, by his first marriage, Anne, born in c1778, &, by his second marriage, Pierre-Paul, born in 1779, but gives no birthplaces; BRDR, 2:46, 99 (SJA-1, 46a), the record of his second marriage, calls him Ignace BABIN, widower of Marguerite BREAU, calls his wife Marie-Josèph BLANCHARD, widow of Joseph BLANCHARD, does not give his or her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Paul BABIN [probably his brother], Anselme LANDRY, & Firmain BLANCHARD; BRDR 2:56 (SGA-8, 16, #78), his death/burial record, calls him Ygnacio BABIN, spouse of Maria Josefa LANDRI, but does not give his parents' names nor his age at the time of his death.  See also De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 3; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 433; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 23, 149-50.  

His estimated birth year is from the Spanish report of 1767 & the St.-Gabriel census of 1777, not from Arsenault.  

Arsenault, 2411, has Ignace marrying Marguerite BREAUX in c1778, when they had a 12-year-old son in 1777!  Arsenault probably confused the date of his first marriage with that of his second.  Arsenault, 2411, 2423, insists that Ignace's second wife was not Marie-Josèphe BLANCHARD, as she is called in their marriage record, but Marie-Josèphe LANDRY, probablement daughter of Joseph LANDRY & Marie-Josephe COMEAUX.  The Ascension priest of that day, notorious for his sloppy record keeping, evidently gave Marie-Josèphe the surname of her first husband, not that of her father.  Her true name is in Ignace's burial record, cited above, & is probably Arsenault's source.  Arsenault, 2411-12, in listing Ignace's children, mentions no son Paul, who, according to the Spanish report of 1767 & the St.-Gabriel census of 1777, would have been born in late 1766 or early 1767, probably in MD, & is listed here. 

To complicate matters further, De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5, lists also on the right bank ascending another Ygnace BABAIN, also "Veuve," also age 36, with 1 unnamed son age 6, 8 cattle, 4 hogs, 12 fowl, 6 arpents.  Is this the same fellow, or was Ignace counted twice in the 1777 census?  Most confusing.  

West, 23, says Ignace went with his brother Joseph to the Attakapas District in the 1770s.  Joseph certainly went there, but the evidence is thin that Ignace went there, too.  Note that Ignace died at St.-Gabriel, not at Attakapas.  

27.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Jacques BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2412, calls him Jean-Jacques BABIN, & says he was born in 1750.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 178; De Ville, Acadian Coast, 1779, 14; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 9; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7.

The Marguerite LANDRY he married is just a guess based on birth & arrival dates, locale, & process of elimination.  See also discussion in the footnote to the profile of Joseph-André SAVOIE.

28.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Jean-Baptiste BABIN.

The identity of his parents is only a guess.  Arsenault, Généalogie, does not say, so we must wait until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 to fill in the blanks. 

29.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Joseph BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2411, calls him Joseph BABIN & his wife Marie BABIN; BRDR, 2:47, 243 (SJA-2, 38), the record of his second marriage, calls him Josef BABIN, widower, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says both sets of parents were "of Acadia," calls his second wife a widow but does not name his first wife, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Aman BABIN, Juan DUHONT, & Estevan JU TEAU.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, 178; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 9.  

The Cabanocé census of 1769 calls his first wife Marie BABIN, but the Ascension census of 1770, the St.-Jacques census of 1777, the record of his first marriage in Bourgeois, cited above, & the marriage record of their daughter Isabel, dated 19 Apr 1792, in BRDR, 2:46 (SJA-2, 14) call her Marie LANDRY.   

30.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Joseph BABIN; BRDR, 3:54 (ASC-4, 85), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph BABIN, age 66 yrs., spouse Osite LEBLANC, but does not give his parents' names.

The age given in his burial records is, in light of the censuses in which he is found, probably the usual exaggeration.  

31.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Joseph dit Dios BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1321, 2412; BRDR, 2:48, 478 (ASC-1, 129), his marriage record, calls him Joseph BABIN, calls his wife Marine LE BLANC, gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "Acadians," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Simon LEBLANC, Étienne BIJEAUD, & Isaac LEBLANC; BRDR, 2:47 (ASC-1, 186a), his death/burial record, calls him Josef BABIN, age 28 years, but does not give his parents' names nor mention a wife.  

His estimated birth year is taken from Arsenault, p. 1321, & his burial record. 

32.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Joseph BABIN.  See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 1321, 2408-09; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 155.

33.  Wall of Names, 10 (pl. 1L), calls him Joseph BABIN 3.  See also Jehn, Acadians Exiles in the Colonies, 152; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 435; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 77. 

34.  Wall of Names, 10 (pl. 1L), calls him Joseph BABIN, frère [of Joseph].  See also Jehn, Acadians Exiles in the Colonies, 152; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 435; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 77.

Why would a nuclear family have 2 Josephs in it?  Did one of them have Joseph as a middle name?  What happened to this Joseph in LA?  Did he marry?  He was young enough to have been his older brother's son, but Wall of Names, based on J. Voorhies, is clear--he was a younger brother. 

35.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Joseph BABIN, & lists him with brother Paul, who came to LA in Jul 1767; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2410, 2411, calls him Joseph BABIN, says he was born in 1755 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, calls his wife's mother Marguerite-Josèphe BREAUX, not Marie-Josèphe BREAUX, & lists his children as Adélaïde, born in 1779, Joseph, born in 1783, Julien, born in 1786, Alexandre, born in 1792, & Marcelline-Arthémise, born in 1803, but gives no birthplaces; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:27 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol. 1, #93), his marriage record, calls him Joseph BABIN, gives his & his wife's parents' names, calls his mother Marguerite BOUDROTE, says his father was deceased at the time of the marriage, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Francois MOREAU, Joseph LANDRY, & Claude MARTIN; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:33 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1414), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph BABIN, native of Maryland, married to Anastasie MELANÇON, does not give his parents' names, says he died "at age about 60 years at his home at la Pointe," & that he was buried "in the parish cemetery"; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:33 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#395), his succession record, calls him Joseph BABIN, widr. of Anastasie MELANÇON, but does not gives his parents' names nor list any children.  See also DeVille, Attakapas Post Census, 1771, 12; Stanley LeBlanc PDF (for 1773 Atakapas Militia roster); Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 281; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A: 823; DeVille, Southwest LA Families, 1785, 13; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 23, 149-50.

Why was he not in the Spanish report of 1767 for St.-Gabriel with brother Ignace or brother Paul?  Surely if he was only 12 years old that year & came to LA with them he would have been a member of one of their households.  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 433.  Did he come to LA from MD at a different time?  Older sister Marie, with whom he was living in 1771,married Claude MARTIN at Atakapas in c1770, but Marie's arrival date also is unrecorded; she is, in fact, not even found in Wall of Names.  

Arsenault, pp. 2410, 2411-12, makes him older than Ignace & Paul, which other records do not bear out.  Arsenault's birth year for Joseph--1755--is from the Atakapas census of 1771.  The estimated birth year taken from Joseph's burial record--c1760--means that he would have been only 12 or 13 in Jan 1773, when he appears on an Atakapas militia list entitled "Roster of the [Male] Inhabitants of Atakapas, from 14 [years old] to the age of 50."  

West says that he went to the Atakapas with brother Ignace, but there is no evidence that Ignace went with him.  

36.  Wall of Names, 19, calls her Judith-Théotiste BABIN.

37.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Lise-Marie-Josèphe BABIN.  See also Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:29, notice of public sale, calls her Marie. 

38.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Louise BABIN.

What happened to her in LA?

39.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Ludivine BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2527, calls her Louise-Ludivine BABIN.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 155; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5; Voorhies., J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 433.

Her estimated birth year is from the Spanish report of 1767, not the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.  

40.  Not in Wall of Names.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2409, profile for her first husband in the LA section, calls her Madeleine BABIN, says she was born in 1745, does not give her parents' names, & lists her children as son Joseph [BABIN], born in 1769, daughter Marie-Madeleine [BABIN], born in 1774, daughter Marie-Constance [BABIN], born in 1777, & Marie [BABIN], born in 1779, & says she & her husband occupied lot number 159 sur la rive est du Mississipi[sic] in 1769; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, the record of her first marriage, calls her Élizabeth BABIN; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 424, also the record of her first marriage, calls her Élizabeth BABIN; BRDR, 2:49, 430 (ASC-1, 143), the record of her second marriage, calls her Magdalena BABEIN, widow of Carlos BABEIN, does not give her or her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Efreme BABEIN [her former brother-in-law], Estevan LANDRY, & Marino LANDRY.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 157; Bourgeois, p. 178; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 17; footnote 09, above.   

Which Joseph LANDRY did she marry?  Since there were so many of them on the river in LA, even with the clue of who his first wife was, your guess is a good as mine. 

41.  Not in Wall of Names.  BRDR, 2:50, 627 (SJA-1, 39), her marriage record, calls her Magdelaine-Marthe BABIN, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says all 4 parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, that she & her husband were "natives of Acadia," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Ignace BABIN [her brother], Pierre LEBLANC, Paul BABIN [her brother], & Jean-Baptiste ALAIN; BRDR, 2:53 (SGA-8, 19, #103), her death/burial record, dated 28 Apr 1796, calls her Marta BABIN, age 30 years, spouse of Pablo RICHART of Acadia, gives her parents' names, & calls her mother Margarita GODRAU.  BRDR, 2:2a (SGA-8, 19), a correction of her burial record, also dated 28 Apr 1796, calls her mother a BOUDREAUX.  See also De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5.  

The age given in the St.-Gabriel census of 1777, not her burial record, is followed here, otherwise she would have been 11 years old at the time of her marriage!  The problem with her burial record, both original & corrected, in BRDR, vol. 2 is that the year of death of wrong.  Her daughter Maria RICHARD was born on 21 Apr 1798, 2 years after her mother's death!  Madeleine-Marthe must have been buried on 28 Apr 1798, her death cause, perhaps, by the complications of childbirth.  This means she died in her late 30s, not at age 30.  Then again, the birth/baptismal record for daughter Marie may be incorrectly dated; she may have been born in Apr 1788, not 1798. 

When did Madeleine-Marthe come to LA?  With her brothers Ignace & Paul from MD in Jul 1767?  Why is she not in Wall of Names?

42.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marguerite BABIN; BRDR, 3:56 (ASC-4, 122), her death/burial record, calls her Marguerite BABIN, "age 67, wid. 1st marriage of Isaac LEBLANC and 2nd marriage of Pierre PANICEL," but does not give her parents' names.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 156. 

43.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marguerite BABIN; BRDR, 3:56 (ASC-4, 72), her death/burial record, calls her Marguerite BABIN, wid. DUGAT, but does not give her parents' names nor her age at the time of her death.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 172, 175; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 425, 455; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 2, 11; note 76, below.

44.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marguerite BABIN; BRDR, 2:12, 50-51 (PCP-4, 188), her marriage record, calls her Marguerite BABIN, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says her parents & her husband were from Baltimore, that the witnesses to her marriage were Francois HÉBERT, Pierre ALLAIN, Isaac LEBLANC, & Charles HÉBERT, & notes "the couple came from Manchac [St.-Gabriel] to be married, as there was no priest," hence the recording of the marriage at nearby Pointe Coupée.

45.  Wall of Names, 14, calls her Marguerite BABIN veuve Alexis COMEAU.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 435.

Who were her parents?  Where was she born?  How was she kin to the BREAU brothers, Alexis & Honoré, who led the Port Tobacco Acadians to LA in 1768?  Evidently she did not remarry.  The surnames of her children were not listed in the Spanish report of 1768, but her widow status makes it easy to determine that they were the children of Alexis COMEAUX.  Does her failure to appear with any of her children in the St.-Gabriel census of Mar 1777 mean that she had died by then? 

46.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marguerite BABIN, & lists her singly; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2460, says she was born in 1731.  See also De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 15. 

47.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marie BABIN.

What happened to her in LA?

48.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marie BABIN, orpheline.

49.  Wall of Names, 20, calls her Marie BABIN.

50.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marie BABIN; BRDR, 1b:8, 61 (PCP-3, 256; PCP-4, 284), her marriage record, calls her Marie BABIN, "native of Acadia," calls her husband Francois DIES, "native of Seville, Spain," gives her & his parents' names, says both of her parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Élisabeth DUARON, Antoine RODRIGUES, & Pélagie DUARON.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 8.  

She probably married one of the Spanish soldiers stationed at Fort San Luis de Natchez, where her family was sent by Spanish Gov. ULLOA when they reached LA in Feb 1768.  The marriage records says that her parents were deceased, but the Ascension census of 1770 shows that her mother was still very much alive in 1768.  Why was Marie not in the Spanish report of 1768 for the settlers of St. Luis de Natchez with the rest of her family?  Was she already married when the report was made?  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 436.  

51.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls her Marie BABIN, & list her with husband Louis STIVIN, 2 STIVIN children, & her brother François; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 36-37, Family No. 45, calls her Marie BABIN, gives her parents' names, her birth place & date, says she, her parents, & 2 siblings "disembarked at St. Malo from England on May 23, 1763 from the ship, La Dorothée, & that her family resided at St.-Servan from 1763-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 153, Family No. 278, calls her Marie BABIN, says she was born in c1761 in Southampton, England, gives her parents' names, calls her husband Louis-William STEBENS, gives his parents' names, says he was born in c1749 "in the Parish of Toussaint in Boston," that he was a seaman & "resident of the Parish of Saint-Martin of Chantenay since 6 months at the time of his second marriage, calls his first wife Marie WEIBERT, says they were married probably in Boston but gives no marriage date, calls his second wife Marie LANDRY, daughter of Benjamin LANDRY & Marguerite BABIN, says they married 25 Jan 1779, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, that he married Marie BABIN 2 Jan 1783, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, includes the baptismal record of daughter Marie STEBENS, baptized 3 Dep 1783, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, details the family's voyage to LA in 1785, & gives the alternate name spelling of STIVRIN; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls her Marie BABIN, sa [Louis STIVIN's] femme, age 18, on the embarkation list, Maria BABIN, su [Luis STIVRIN's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Marie BABIN, his [Louis STEBENS's] wife, age 18, on the complete listing, says she was in the 29th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her husband, called Louis STIVIN, marin, age 36, on the embarkation list, Luis STIVRIN, on the debarkation list, & Louis STEBENS, sailor, age 36, on the complete listing, 3 children--son Louis, son [Louis STIVIN's] fils, age 3, on the embarkation list, Luis, su [Luis STIVRIN's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Louis STEBENS, his [Louis STEBENS's] son, age 3, on the complete listing, daughter Marie, sa [Louis STIVIN's] fille, age 2, on the embarkation list, Maria, su [Luis STIVRIN's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Marie STEBENS, his [Louis STEBENS's] daughter, age 2, on the complete listing, & son un hijo sin Bautizar, on the debarkation list, an unnamed son STEBENS, not baptized, on the complete listing--& brother Francois, details her first marriage, including the names of her & her husband's parents, & says that daughter Marie [STEBENS] was baptized in 1783; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:29 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: 1829), her succession inventory, calls her Marie BABIN m. (1)Louis STEIVEN, m. (2)Charles FOURNIER, & lists her children as, by her first marriage, Marie STIEVEN m. Michel BOURGEOIS, Anne STIEVEN m. d.Jean Charles BROUSSARD, Geneviève STIEVEN m. Donnat LANDRY, Joseph STIEVEN, d.Alexandre STIEVEN m. d.Élisabeth Hortense LEDAY, &, by her second marriage, Marcellin FOURNIER.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 527; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 51, 76.  

Why did the passenger list of Le Bon Papa miss her age by such a wide mark?

The spelling of her husband's surname is from Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, cited above.  French & Spanish versions of STEBENS--ESTEVE, ESTIVENNE, ESTIVENNES, ESTIVEN, STEVEN, STEIVEN, STIEVEN, STIVEN, STIVIN, STIVREN, STIVRIN, etc.--can be found in French & LA census, church, & civil records.  Although Louis-Willaim was born in Boston, his parents' names--Stanislas STEBENS & Anne COLCEIN--do not sound English.  Were they German?  Polish?  Dutch?

52.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marie BABIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2405, 2411, calls her Marie-Josephe BABIN & Marie BABIN, & says she married Jean-Charles ARCENEAUX 17 Jun 1777, but this date is wrong.  The St.-Jacques census of 1777 was taken in Apr, & she is listed in that census as the wife of [Jean]-Charles.  See De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 7.  BRDR, 2:24, 52 (SJA-1, 38a), the record of her first marriage, calls her Marie-Josephe BABIN, says she married Jean-Chs. ARCENEAUX 17 Jan 1777, & the witnesses to their marriage were Joseph SOGNY [SONNIER] (her uncle), Etienne MELANZON, Charles BERGERAU, & Pierre BERNARD; BRDR, 3:59 (SMI-2, 12), the record of her second marriage, calls her Marie Josèphe BABIN, wid. Jean Charles ARSENAUX, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says her parents were Acadians & deceased, that his father also was deceased at the time of wedding, gives her husband's birthplace in France & the names of his earlier wives, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Bonaventure GAUDIN, Joseph SAULNIER, & Baptiste PICOUS; BRDR, 4:33 (SMI-8, 38), her death/burial record, calls her Marie BABIN, "age 62, wid. Louis BILLON," but does not give her parents' names.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 169; De Ville, Acadian Coast, 1779, 12; De Ville, Mississippi Valley Mélange, 1:39; De Ville, Opelousas Post Census, 1771, 9. 

There is the compelling question of Marie BABIN's age at the time of her wedding.  If the estimated birth year calculated from the LA censuses in which she is found is accurate--c1762--she would have been barely 14 years old in Jan 1777!   The Opelousas census of 1771 does not name Marie, but it is clear from her stepfather Michel CORMIER's listing in that census that he had 2 daughters, in this case stepdaughters, ages 9 & 7 in his household, along with wife Anne SONNIER & infant son Michel, fils.  The ages of the 2 daughters with Michel CORMIER that year fit precisely the ages given for Marie & her older sister in the Cabanocé census of 1766, as well as their ages given in their mother's succession in Jan 1773.  See De Ville, Opelousas Post Census, 1771, 9; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:719 (LSAR: Opel: 1773-10).

If Marie was still living with her stepfather at Opelousas in 1776-77, age 14/15, one wonders how she hooked up with a fellow from St.-Jacques, unless she knew him from the time she had lived in the river settlement with her widowed mother, before her mother married Michel CORMIER of Opelousas back in 1769, when Marie was only age 7.  No matter, Marie would have been a very young girl enamored of a fellow a dozen years her senior (he was 25 at the time of their marriage).  And if Marie was living with her stepfather in early 1777, why in the world did he let her marry at such a tender age?  One wonders what Marie's departed mother would have thought about marrying off a daughter at such an age.   

But let us consider this scenario that may relieve my paternal ancestor of some blame here.  Michel CORMIER fathered 2 sons by his first wife, Anne SONNIER, in the early 1770s, Amand, born in Oct 1770, & Michel, fils, born in Sep 1772, when his stepdaughter Marie BABIN would have been 8 & 10.  Anne died soon after Michel, fil's birth, probably in late 1772, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  Anne's succession, dated 7 Jan 1773, says Marie was age 9 at the time.  Her mother's death would have left Marie with her stepfather, older sister Lise, & younger half-brothers Amand & Michel, fils.  Marie may have moved out of her stepfather's house after her mother's death & returned to St.-Jacques to live with relatives there--perhaps cousin Joseph SONNIER, with whom she had lived in 1766 & whose wife died sometime in the mid-1770s, or cousin Jean SONNIER, who had recently married.  The records do not say.  The only clue is that in Oct 1774, the census taker in Opelousas counted only 2 children in the household of widower Michel CORMIER, & they probably were his sons, Amand & Michel, fils.  So Marie, & older sister Lise, had probably left for St.-Jacques by then.  But if the census taker had miscounted, and if Marie had stayed with her stepfather in Opelousas after the death of her mother, her life would have become even more complicated in 1774 when her stepfather remarried to Catherine STELLY, a young German woman whose family lived nearby.  In Sep 1776, Michel & Catherine celebrated the birth of their first child, Pierre.  Marie would have been 14, Amand 6, & Michel, fils, only 4 at the time of Pierre's birth.  Resentment over her stepfather's new wife, conflict with her stepmother, being forced to help care for 3 younger boys, including an infant who was not of her blood--any of these things might have driven Marie to return to St.-Jacques.  But she had probably already gone there.  It is significant that Michel CORMIER was not a witness at his stepdaughter's wedding--but Joseph SONNIER was.  So most likely it was Cousin Joseph who had "custody" of the girl in 1777 & consented to her marriage at such a ridiculous age.  P.S.- Note that a Joseph SONNIER was a witness to her second marriage when she was in her early 50s.  

All of this may be moot, however, if we recalculate her estimated birth year from the age given in her burial record.  If she was age 62 when she died in May 1820, as the Convent priest insists, & thus born in c1758, not c1762, she would have been 17 years old when she married for the first time in Jan 1777, not 14 or 15.  

53.  Wall of Names, 22, calls her Marie BABIN & lists her as married to Sylvain when they reached LA; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2538, profile of her husband in the LA section, gives her middle name, does not give her parents' names, & says she married Sylvain in c1772; BRDR, 3:59 (ASC,4-69), her burial record, calls her Marie Josephe BABIN, wid. LEBLANC.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 175; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 4. 

One wonders who her parents might have been. 

Despite what the editors of Wall of Names say, she could not have been married to Sylvain LEBLANC in 1766.  See the footnote to his profile for an explanation.   

54.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marie-Josèphe BABIN.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 156. 

What happened to her after 1770?  Was she the Marie-Josèphe BABIN who married Charles GODIN dit Lincour? 

55.  Wall of Names, 9, calls her Marie BABIN, soeur [of Amand].  See also Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:232; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 3, 12.   

Her middle name is from the British report in MD.  See Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 156.  

Her marriage to Charles GODIN is pure guess work based on process of elimination. 

56.  Wall of Names, 19, calls her Marie-Madeleine BABIN; BRDR, 3:55 (SGA-8, 66), her death/burial record, calls her M. Jeanne BABIN, age 95, spouse Augustin LANDRY, but does not give her parents' names.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 432; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 9. 

Her estimated birth year is from the age given in the Spanish report of 1767, buttressed by the age found in her burial record.  So why was the age given in the St.-Gabriel census of 1777 so radically different?  

57.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Marie-Rose BABIN. 

What happened to her in LA?  Did she survive the family's ordeal at Fort San Luìs de Natchez?  That she died young is based on the observation that her mother, remarried, was counted at St.-Gabriel in Mar 1777 with her second husband & a stepson, but not with daughter Marie-Rose, who would have been age 11.  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 10. 

58.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Mathurin BABIN, orphelin.

What happened to him in LA?

59.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Mathurin BABIN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 18, calls him Mathurin Louis BABIN; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 34, Family No. 42, calls him Mathurin-Louis BABIN. 

His family was supposed to have settled at Ascension after they came to LA from Île St.-Pierre in Dec 1788.  See Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 105, 208. 

60.  Wall of Names, 10 (pl. 1L), calls him Olivier BABIN, & lists him with a wife & 2 daughters; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2412, the LA section, calls him Olivier BABIN, says he was born in c1750 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, says he married Marguerite BREAUX in c1772 but gives no place of marriage, & lists only a single child, Baptiste-Olivier, born in 1773 & baptized at St.-Gabriel.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 153; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 436.  

Who were his parents? 

Wall of Names insists that he & his wife were married & had 2 daughters, Marie-Josèphe & Marianne, when they reached LA, but the Spanish report of 1768, a primary source, says that Olivier was an 18-year-old orphan at San Luìs de Natchez in 1768 & does not list Marie or the 2 daughters.  Therefore, the 2 daughters are not on this list.  The baptismal record of Jacques BABIN, dated 19 Feb 1770, in NOAR, 2:7 (SLC, B6, 75), calls the boy's parents Oliv[eur?] [BABIN] & Marie BREAUD & shows that Olivier & Marie were married by 1770.  The baptismal sponsors were Jacque DUBREUIL & Magdelaine BREAUD.  Evidently Arsenault did not find the New Orleans baptismal record in his research.  

Why were they not in the St.-Gabriel census of 1777?  See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777. 

His wife remarried twice, but, unfortunately, none of her remarriage records include her parents' names.    

61.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Anne  DUPUIS.  See the footnote accompanying the profile of husband Anselme Le Borgne de BÉLISLE for evidence that she was not a DUPUIS but a BABIN.  

So who was the Anne BABIN with her siblings at Baltimore, MD, in Jul 1763?  See Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 157. 

62.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Paul BABIN, & lists him with brother Joseph as though they came to LA together; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2412, says he was born in 1760; BRDR, 2:2a, 4a, 54, 141 (SGA-5, 28), his marriage record, calls him Paul BABIN, calls his wife Marguerite BRASSEUR, "native of Maryland," gives his & her parents' names, says his parents were "of St.-Famille Parish in Acadia," & says the witnesses to his marriage were Ignace BABIN [his brother], Joseph RICHARD, Pierre BRASSEUR, & Louis LECOMTE; BRDR, 2:54 (SGA-8, 26, #146), his death/burial record, calls him Paul BABIN, age 50 years, but does not give his parents' names nor mention a wife.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 433; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5.

Ste.-Famille Parish in Acadia was on the west side of the river at Pigiguit. 

63.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Paul BABIN.

Was he the Olivier BABIN who was born on the voyage from Baltimore to New Orleans?  See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 430. 

64.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Paul BABIN.

65.  Wall of Names, 45, calls him Paul BABIN, beau frere [of René LANDRY]; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 48; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 36, "Family" No. 44, calls him Paul BABIN, says he was born in c1723 but gives no birthplace, gives his father's but not his mother's name, says he "disembarked at St. Malo on January 23, 1759 from one of the 'Five ships,' details his activities in France, & concludes "No further trace has been found" after he left for the Falkland Island. 

Was the Paul BABIN who went to LA in 1785 the same one who went to the Falkland Islands?  Did he ever marry?  If not, why not?

66.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Pierre BABIN.  See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 2413, the LA section, which does not give his parents or a birth year, names his wife, & says his daughter Josèphe-Dosithée was baptized at St.-Gabriel d'Iberville in 1774; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 155; Voorhies., J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 433; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 81-82.

The birth year followed here is from the Spanish report of 1767, not the St.-Gabriel census of 1777. 

Who were his parents?  See Arsenault, 1092, the Grand-Pré section, for a clue.  Who were wife Madeleine's parents? 

His grandson, Pierre Paul or Paul Pierre, posthumous son of Simon-Pierre or Pierre-Simon BABIN, became a prosperous sugar planter in West Baton Parish during the late antebellum period.  See Conclusion. 

67.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Pierre BABIN. 

What happened to him in LA? 

68.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Pierre-Moïse BABIN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 18, calls him Pierre-Moyse BABIN; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 33, Family No. 42, calls him Pierre-Moïse BABIN. 

His family was supposed to have settled at Ascension after they came to LA from Île St.-Pierre in Dec 1788.  See Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 105, 208.  He evidently was the Moyse BABIN who served as a nephew's godfather at Ascension in Sep 1789.  See BRDR, 2:43 (ASC-5, 28).  But then what happened to him? 

69.  Wall of Names, 10 (pl. 1L), calls her Rose-Osite LE BLANC[sic]; BRDR, 2:55, 361 (SGA-4a, 5), the record of her second marriage, calls her Rosalie BABIN, widow of Joseph BABIN, calls her husband Ignace HÉBERT, widower of Marie LEBLANC, give no parents' names, and says the witnesses to her marriage were Charles COMO & Abraham LANDRY.  See also De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 10; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 435; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 77.

Where did the editors of Wall of Names find her family name LE BLANC & her give name Rose Osite?  White, DGFA-1, 836, calls the second wife of Ignace, son of Guillaume HÉBERT & Marie-Josèphe DUPUIS, Rosalie, daughter of Paul BABIN & Marie LANDRY & widow of Joseph BABIN, not a LE BLANC.  The editors of Wall of Names evidently confused the Joseph BABIN (b. c1730) who came to LA from MD with wife Rosalie BABIN, 2 children, & a brother in Feb 1768 with a much younger Joseph BABIN (b. c1748) who came to LA from MD in 1766 with a widowed mother & sister & married Osite, daughter of Jacques LEBLANC & Catherine-Marie-Josèphe FOREST at St.-Jacques in Jan 1771 & who died at Ascension in Mar 1809.  No church or civil record gives Rosalie BABIN, wife of Joseph BABIN & Ignace HÉBERT a middle name of Osite.  She is called simply Rosalie, Rosalite, or Roza.  Perhaps the Jul 1763 census of the Acadians at Port Tobacco, which calls her Rosalite, may have led the Wall of Names editors astray. 

Why does the Spanish report of 1768 say she was 37?  Did it mean 31?  See J. Voorhies, cited above.  Her age here is based on the St.-Gabriel census of 1777.  She was younger than both her husbands, especially the second--7 years younger than Joseph, & 13 years younger than Ignace. 

70.  Wall of Names, 10, calls her Rose BABIN; BRDR, 3:62 (ASC-4, 144), her death/burial record, calls her Rose BABIN, age 60 yrs., wid. Charles DUGAT, but does not give her parents' names.

What brought her back to Ascension?  Did her children live there, & she went to live with them after her husband died? 

71.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Simon BABIN; BRDR, 2:55, 621 (SGA-14, 21, #74), his marriage record, calls him Simon Pedro BABIN, gives his & his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph BABIN, Téodoro DUGAT, & Ypolite LANDRY; BRDR, 3:63 (SGA-8, 48), his death/burial record, calls him Simon Pierre BABIN, age 50, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.  

His estimated birth year is based on the St.-Gabriel censuses in which he is found, not on his burial record.

72.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Simon BABIN.

73.  Wall of Names, 42, calls him Simon BABIN, & lists him singly with the ship's immigrés; BRDR, 2:55, 497 (PCP-19, 10), the record of his first marriage, calls him Simon BABIN of Angleterre, says his wife was from St.-Malo, calls his parents Simon [BABIN] & Anastasie TÉRRIOT, gives his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE, Francois BABIN, Grégoire LEJEUNE, & Eustache LEJEUNE; BRDR, 2:55, 611 (PCP-19, 28), the record of his second marriage, calls him Simon BABIN of Angleterre, calls his parents Simon [BABIN] & Anastasie TÉRIOT, gives his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Servant TEMPLET, François BABIN, Mathurin USÉ, & François DUGUE; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:31, 260 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, p. 25), the record of his third marriage, calls him Simon BABIN of St.-Malo, France, widr. of Anne Louise GUIMIRE, calls his parents d.Simon [BABIN] & d.Marie Thérèse THERISEA[sic], gives his wife's parents' names & her first husband's name, but gives no witnesses to his marriage; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:31 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: 1833), his succession inventory, calls him Simon BABIN, "56 yrs. old, native of England, widr. of Anne Louise KIMMIN," & calls his parents Simon [BABIN] & Anastasie THERIOT.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 527.

His marriage & successions leave no doubt who his parents were.  So why is "Simon" not listed with them in Robichaux's studies of the Acadians in France?  Born in England, he would have been old enough to have accompanied his father & mother to France in May 1763 & his father & stepmother to Poitou in the early 1770s.  See Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 36-37, Family No. 45; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 8-9, Family No. 15.  I suspect he is Simon BABIN's son Magloire & that his name was Magloire-Simon or Simon-Magloire, though "Magloire" never appears in LA records.  

According to "A Report on Acadian Immigrants Who Came to Louisiana from France in 1786[sic]," in Kinnaird, "Post War Decade, 1782-91," 169, & <thecajuns.com/1785acad.pdf>, 1 person aboard L'Amitié went to Baton Rouge.  Evidently he was that person.

Although his first 2 marriages were recorded at the Pointe-Coupée church, he lived in the Baton Rouge area, where there was no church until 1793.  Priests from Pointe-Coupée officiated at baptisms, marriages, & funerals until Baton Rouge got its own church.  Note that his first wife was not listed in the Spanish report of 1788 for Baton Rouge, which was made in Jul, so she must have died by then.  

74.  Wall of Names, 10 (pl. 1L), calls her Victoire BABIN, & lists her with her widowed mother & siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 33, Family No. 42, calls her Marie-Victoire BABIN.  See also Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 208. 

75.  Wall of Names, 10, calls him Vincent-Ephrem BABIN; BRDR, 3:50 (ASC-4, 93), his death/burial record, calls him Effrem BABIN, age 67, nat. Acadia, widower of Marguerite LEBLANC, but does not give his parents' names.  

For his contracting smallpox in Oct 1787, see Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 174. 

76.  Not in Wall of Names.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2528, profile for Simon LANDRY in the LA section, calls his wife Marguerite LEBLANC & says they married in 1767 but gives no place of marriage; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 157, links her to Germain, Madeleine, & Marie BABIN; BRDR, 3:56 (ASC-4, 88), her death/burial record, calls her Marguerite BABIN, age 74, nat. Acadia, wid. Simon LANDRY, but does not give her parents' names.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, 178; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 424, 483; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 6, 17.  

Which Marie BABIN was her sister?  See note 77, below.  Again, I need a BABIN family historian to help me sort out these folks.

Although she is not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names, she can be found on their website at <acadianmemorial.org/english/ensembleencoreset.html>; use the link marked Life Lines & then use their search engine to find her. 

77.  Not in Wall of Names.  BRDR, 2:51,  420 (ASC-1, 131 & 132), her marriage record, calls her Maria BABIN, calls her husband Charles LANDRY, "widower of Marie LANDRY, native of Acadia," says her parents were Germain LANDRY & Marguerite LANDRY but does not give his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph LANDRY & Pierre LANDRY.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 178; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 157; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 6, 18; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 483.

Like her putative sisters, this Marie matches no other Marie BABIN in Wall of Names.  Her marriage record, cited above, is the principal clue linking her to the Madeleine BABIN & Marguerite BABIN who do not seem to be listed in Wall of Names.  Although she is not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names, she can be found on their website at <acadianmemorial.org/english/ensembleencoreset.html>; use the link marked Life Lines & then use their search engine to find her. 

The baptismal record of daughter Mathilde LANDRY, dated 20 May 1781, in BRDR, 2:444 (ASC-1, 73), calls the mother Ana Maria BABEIN.  So was her full name Anne-Marie?

78.  Not in Wall of Names.  BRDR, 2:50 (SGA-4a, 25), her marriage record, calls her Marguerite BABIN, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Bernard CAPDEVILLE & Jean-Baptiste ALLAIN.  

79.  Not in Wall of Names.  Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:34 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1601), her burial record, calls her Marie BABIN, spouse of Glaude MARTIN, does not give her parents' names, says she died "in the morning at age about 80 years at the home of Michel MARTIN her son at la pointe," & that she was buried "in the parish cemetery"; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:34 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ.#30), her succession, calls her Marie BABIN m. Glaud MARTIN, but does not give her parents' names nor lists any children.  See also Arceneaux, D. J., Attakapas Post in 1769, 20, 37; DeVille, Attakapas Post Census, 1771, 12.

Her estimated birth year is from the Attakapas census of 1771 & her burial record.  

Her relationship with Joseph BABIN of La Pointe, St. Martin Parish, son of Dominique BABIN & Marguerite BOUDREAUX, is based on his being in her husband's household in 1771.  He may have been her cousin, not her brother.  If she was a daughter of Dominique BABIN, her brothers Ignace and Paul came to LA from MD in 1767.  The arrival dates of sisters Madeleine-Marthe & Marguerite, & brother Joseph, are anyone's guess.  Madeleine-Marthe & Marguerite also are not found in Wall of Names, probably because they cannot be found on the 1767 count in Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 430ff.   

She also can be found in her husband's succession, dated 23 Jun 1822 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ. #446), in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:34. 

80.  Not in Wall of Names.  BRDR, 3:64 (SJA-2, 161), her marriage record, calls her Victoire BABIN, nat. St. Nicolas, Santo Domingo, calls her husband Lewis MOROW, nat. of Boston, gives her & his parents' names, says her father was deceased at the time of the marriage, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Jean Pierre RICHARD, John COX, & Joseph CAILLET.

Did she & her widowed mother come to LA in 1809 with thousands of other Haitian refugees?  If so, perhaps her mother, Marie HÉBERT, also should be added to this list.  

Was she the Victoire BABIN who died in Ascension Parish in Sep 1862?  The Donaldsonville priest who recorded the burial, typical of priests who served that parish, did not give her parents' names or mention a husband.  He did say that she died at "age 81 years."

81.  Not in Wall of Names.  Neither his marriage record nor his burial record give his parents' names.  See BRDR, 2:43, 423 (ASC-2, 15), 3:48 (SGA-8, 72).  However, the baptismal record of son Casimir, in BRDR, 2:43 (ASC-5, 28), gives a hint as to which Bonaventure this may have been:  the boy's godfather is Moyse, likely Pierre-Moïse, BABIN, son of Joseph BABIN & Marine LEBLANC, who came to LA with his widowed mother & 5 siblings aboard La Brigite in 1788.  Note that Bonaventure married in Nov 1788, a month before his widowed mother & siblings reached New Orleans.  For Bonaventure's sojourn in England & France, see Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 33-34, Family No. 42.  When his family left France for Île St.-Pierre in the 1770s or early 1780s, during Bonaventure's late teens or early 20s, he likely remained in France.  One wonders if he worked as a sailor there. 

His widowed mother Marine LEBLANC, 5 of his siblings, & his great-uncle Charles BABIN were among the passengers aboard the schooner Brigite, captained by Joseph GRAVOIS III, that reached LA from Île St.-Pierre off the southern coast of Newfoundland in Dec 1788, a month after his wedding.  One suspects that he had somehow communicated with his mother after he reached LA & his being there was her motivation to risk the long voyage from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico.   See Books Six & Eight. 

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