Gereyt,
son of Crispin de Forest and Marguerite Bornstra,
was born at Leyden, Holland, in June 1637. His parents were among the
thousands of French Huguenots who fled persecution in the mother country by
moving to the Netherlands. Gereyt came to Acadia in c1659, when the English
controlled the colony. He converted to
Catholicism in order to marry Marie, daughter of
Étienne
Hébert and
Marie Gaudet, in c1666. As a result of his conversion, he chose the more
Catholic-sounding name of Michel and became a farmer. Marie gave him six children,
four sons and two daughters, before she died. All of their chidren were born at Port-Royal, and all of
them created families of their own.
Their two daughters married into the Brassaud and Benoit families.
In 1686, Michel, in his late 40s, remarried to Jacqueline or Jacquette, 13-year-old daughter of Martin Benoit
and Marie Chaussegros. She gave him another daughter, who married into the Comeau family, but no more
sons. Michel died at Port-Royal in c1691, in his mid-50s.
Oldest son Michel, fils, by
first wife Marie Hébert, born in c1667, married Madeleine, daughter of
Claude
Petitpas and
Catherine
Bugaret, at
Port-Royal in c1689. They settled at Minas and had seven children, including a son
who married into the Celestin dit Bellemère family.
Their two daughters married into the LeMire and Michel
families. In
October 1708, at Grand-Pré, Michel, fils remarried to Marie, another
daughter of André Célestin dit Bellemère and Perrine
Basile and the sister
of his son's wife. They also lived at Cobeguit and Ste.-Famille,
Pigiguit. They had five children, including a son who married into the Vincent
and Richer families. Three of their daughters married into the Rullier dit Le Cadien, Bonnière,
and Billeray families. Michel, fils died at Minas in July 1731, age
64. All three of his daughters by his second wife moved to Île St.-Jean,
today's Prince Edward Island, by the early 1750s.
Pierre, born in c1668, by first wife
Marie Hébert, married Cécile, daughter of
Michel
Richard
dit
Sansoucy and Madeleine
Blanchard, probably at Port-Royal in c1692. They settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and had
nine children, including a son who married into the Babin family.
Four of their daughters married into the Landry and LeBlanc
families. In June 1714, Pierre was "among the inhabitants of Acadia
who went with Father Gaulin to view land on Île Royale," today's Cape
Breton Island. The following August, he received permission from the king
of France to settle on the island, but he must not have liked what he saw
there. He died at Pigiguit in June 1730, age 62.
René, by first wife Marie
Hébert, born in c1670,
married Françoise, daughter of Claude
Dugas and
Françoise
Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in
c1695. They
remained at Port-Royal and 14 children, including seven sons who married into
the Guilbeau, Girouard, LePrince, and Richard
families. Their six daughters married into the Robichaud, Bastarache,
Guilbeau, LePrince, and Gaudet families. René also
received permission from the French in August 1714 to settle on Île Royal, but,
like his brothers, he remained in British-controlled Acadia. He died at Port-Royal in April 1751, age 80.
Youngest son
Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie Hébert, born in c1677,
married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Labarre and Catherine
____, probably at Port-Royal in c1698. Jean-Baptiste served for a
time as a domestique for Daniel
LeBlanc at Port-Royal before
moving to
Chignecto, where he and Marie-Élisabeth had 12 children, including eight sons
who married into the Girouard, Babineau, Pitre, Poirier,
Saulnier, and Hébert families. Their four
daughters married into the Landry, Doiron dit Gould, Poirier,
and Blanchard families. Acadian genealogist Stephen A. White
relates: "According to a tradition, preserved by the elders of
Memramcook, Jean-Baptise Forest, husband of Élisabeth LaBarre,
was the seigneur of Menoudie before the Expulsion...." This would
have been quite a promotion in life for a man who once had been a domestique.
[For more of this family in
pre- and post-dispersal Acadia and Canada, see
Book
Three]
In 1755, descendants of Gereyt dit
Michel de Forest could be found at Annapolis Royal; Ste.-Famille,
Pigigit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; Memramcook and Chepoudy in
the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and on Île St.-Jean and Île
Madame in the French Maritimes. By
then, members of the family had shortened their name to Forest.
~
Forêt is a French
surname, and a member of that family, no kin to the descendants of
Michel de Forest, "lived" in Acadia. According to Stephen
A. White, "a soldier named Forêt, a soldier in the Marine,"
died between October and December 1704 during Queen Anne's War aboard the
King's vessel La Loire in the basin at Port-Royal. None of the
Forets of Louisiana are descendants of this Frenchman.
~
In March 1752, a
French official counted Julien Fouré, "fisherman, native
of Carbé, bishopric of St.-Malo," age 33, with his 21-year-old wife
Marie-Anne Ducharme of Québec, and their 2-year-old son
Julien, fils, born at Rivière-de-Miré, at Port Dauphin on the
Atlantic shore of Île Royale. The fisherman was not kin to the
Forests of peninsula Nova Scotia.
LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT
[For the family's travails during the Great Upheaval, see
Book Six]
LOUISIANA: WESTERN
SETTLEMENTS
Forests were among the earliest
Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana. The first of them reached New
Orleans from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, with the Broussard dit Beausoleil
party in February 1765. After a brief respite in the city, he followed the Broussards
across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District and helped established La
Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche:
Pierre FORET (c1720?-1817?;
Michel, ?)
Pierre Forest, called Pedro Fure, was counted at La Manque,
on the lower Teche with
one woman and one boy in his household in April 1766. There is no church
record linking him to anyone specific. A Pierre Foret, whom
the recording priest at Opelousas described as "very poor," died in St. Landry
Parish in January 1817 at the astonishing age of 97. Was this the Pierre Forest
who had come to Louisiana with the Broussards half a century
before? One thing is certain--he did not create the western line of the
Acadian Foret family.
~
Not until the 1790s did an Acadian Foret,
who had come to Louisiana from France in 1785, establish a western branch of the family:
Descendants of Pierre-Nicolas
FORET (1769-1814; Michel, ?)
Pierre-Nicolas, younger son of Jacques Forest
le jeune
and Marguerite-Geneviève Comeau, born at St.-Servan, near St.-Malo,
France, in September 1769, came to Louisiana with his parents aboard La
Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.
He followed his family to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, north
of Baton Rouge. After a series of hurricanes devastated the community in
the early 1790s, most of the Acadians left Bayou des Écores and moved to other
Acadian communities on the river or to upper Bayou Lafourche.
Pierre-Nicolas went to neither place. He married Marie-Françoise, daughter
of Alabama Creoles Henri Fontenot
and Marie-Louise Doucet and widow of Pierre Pitre, at Opelousas in October 1795. They
settled near her parents on La Prairie dite
de L'Anglais near Prairie Ronde in what became St. Landry Parish. Their
daughters married into the Bello, Broussard, Demarest, Fontenot, Henry (German Creole,
not Acadian), LaFleur, and
Vigé families. Pierre Nicholas died "suddenly from an inflammation of
the lungs," that is, pneumonia, at Prairie dite de L'Anglais in
January or February 1814, age 45; his successions
were filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in October and November 1816. Only
one of his five sons seems to have created a family of
his own. Most,
if not all, of the Acadian Forets of southwest Louisiana are descended
from Pierre and his son Cyprien. Not unusual for Acadians in St. Landry Parish,
Pierre's son, daughters, and grandchildren married mostly non-Acadians.
1
Their oldest son, name unrecorded, born in c1796,
died at Opelousas in November 1803, age 7.
2
Jean, baptized at Opelousas,
age unrecorded, in May 1798, probably died young.
3
Pierre, fils, born at Opelousas
in December 1799, also probably died young.
4
Cyprien, baptized at Opelousas,
age 5 months, in February 1804, married Joséphine, daughter of Étienne Versure Fuselier
and Lucille Deshotel, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in
September 1824. Their son Pierre le jeune was born in St. Landry
Parish in July 1825, Adolphe in November 1831, Gerand in June
1838, Onile in c1845, and Félicien in November 1847. Their
daughter married a Fontenot cousin. His children settled near Ville Platte in what
became Evangeline Parish.
4a
Pierre le jeune married
cousin Lucile, called Lise and Lucie, daughter of Pierre Savant and
Lucille Philippe Fontenot, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1846, and sanctified the
marriage at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1848. Their son Pierre Adolphe was born in St.
Landry Parish in November 1849, Alcée in October 1851, and
Arthemon near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline
Parish, in September 1858. Their daughter married into the McDaniel
family. Pierre le jeune's succession record was filed at the
Opelousas courthouse in November 1862; he would have been age 37 that
year.
Pierre Adolphe married Nancy,
daughter of Isom Lee and Marguerite Gibbons, at the Washington church, St. Landry
Parish, in August 1870.
Alcée married Emeline Tate
in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1870.
4b
Gerand married cousin Marguerite,
daughter of Louis Philippe
Fontenot and his Acadian wife Marguerite Pouponne Pitre, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1860. Their
son Jérôme Hortan was born probably near Ville Platte, then in St.
Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in August 1861. Their daughter
married into the Deshotels family.
4c
Onile married Lucretia or Lucille,
daughter of Charles Greenwell and Josèphe L. Fontentot, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry
Parish, in June 1866. Their son Joseph Willis was baptized at
the Ville Platte church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish,
age 2 months, in February 1868. They had 18 more children, including
many sons.
5
A son, name unrecorded, died in St.
Landry Parish 2 days after his birth in November 1813.
~
Not long after Pierre-Nicolas Foret
settled at Opelousas, other kinsmen who had immigrated from France settled in
the area:
Descendants of Victor FORET
(c1733-?; Michel, Michel, fils)
Victor, son of Jacques Foret
and his first wife Claire Vincent, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1733,
married Judith, daughter of François Robichaud, at Port-La-Joye, Île
St.-Jean in May 1756, remarried to Anne-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Hébert,
at Port-La-Joye in February 1757, and was deported with her to St.-Malo, France,
in late 1758. Their children--at least six of them--were born in the
St.-Malo area. Victor remarried again--his third marriage--to Frenchwoman
Julienne Rosereux probably at St.-Malo in c1766. She gave him at
least six more children. Victor remarried yet again--his fourth
marriage--to Marie-Jeanne-Catherine, daughter of Frenchman André Richer
of St.-Malo, sister of Victor's father's second wife, at St.-Servan, France,
near St.-Malo, in February 1784. Victor and his large family sailed to
Louisiana from France in 1785 aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of
the Seven Ships, followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to
Bayou des Écores, north of Baton Rouge, and then moved downriver to Baton Rouge
by 1788. From Baton Rouge, Victor took his family to the Opelousas
District probably in the 1790s. Meanwhile, his daughters married into the Beziné, Perez, and Vilkensol
families and settled at New Orleans. Spanish officials counted Victor, his wife, three sons, and
a daughter in the Grand Louis sub district of the Opelousas District in 1796.
Victor and his fourth wife had no more children in Louisiana, but two of his
sons by his third wife settled in what became St. Landry Parish. They do not seem
to have had sons of their own, however, so the Acadian Forets on the
western prairies are descended from another line of the family.
1
Oldest son Joseph-Victor, by
his second wife, born and baptized at St.-Suliac, France, in May 1760, was at
Opelousas with his father's family in the late 1790s. He probably did not marry.
2
Jean-Jacques, by his third
wife, born at
St.-Servan, France, in September 1775, married Geneviève, daughter of Étienne Ardoin
and Marie-Josèphe Lapointe, at Opelousas in January 1802. They may have had no
children.
3
Youngest son Étienne-Gilles, by
his third wife, born at St.-Malo in c1778, married, at age 42, Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians
Amand Hébert and Geneviève Babin and widow of Jean Baptiste Janeau, at the Opelousas
church, St. Landry Parish, in March 1820. Like his older
brothers, he, too, may have fathered no children.
~
Other FORETs on the Western
Prairies
Area church and civil records make it
difficult to link some Forets in the western parishes with known
Acadian lines of the family there:
François Foret married French
Creole Séraphine Verret, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Marie was born near
Charenton, St. Mary Parish, on lower Bayou Teche, in August 1844.
Joseph Foret and his wife Marie
Uranie, Ursine, or Tersine LeBlanc, who lived on bayous Lafourche and Black in the
1840s, settled near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, by the early 1850s, and
near Creole, then in Calcasieu but now in Cameron Parish, by the late 1850s. Daughter
Hélène was born near Grand Coteau in February 1853.
Étienne Forest married
Anglo-American Eugénie Tate in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in
January 1853. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names. The fact that the clerk called Étienne a
Forest is strong evidence that he was Acadian. Their son Armand,
born probably in St. Landry Parish in January 1856, married Edvise Reed
at the Ville Platte church, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish, in
March 1875.
George Foret married Clothilde
Gradnigo, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Lina was born near Washington, St. Landry Parish,
in July 1870.
Lucille Foret married Thaddeus
C. Duinn in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1870.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents'
names.
LOUISIANA: RIVER SETTLEMENTS
Three Forest families, a
wife, and an orphan, reached New Orleans in 1765 from Halifax via St.-Domingue,
today's Haiti. They did not
follow the Broussards to Bayou Teche, however, as their cousin Pierre had
done. They settled, instead, at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques
on the river
above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the year
before:
Charles Forest of Port-Royal,
age 42, came with second wife Marguerite Saulnier, age 40, five
children--Pierre-Paul, called Paul, age 19, Anselme, age 13, Marie, age 5, Marguerite, age 3, and
Charles, fils, age 1--and niece Marguerite Forest, age
19. Charles, fils was baptized at New Orleans in December
1765, which gives an idea of when the family reached the colony. By 1770, Charles, père had taken his family to nearby
Ascension, where he died in March 1783, in his early 60s. Daughter Marguerite, wife of
Joseph LeBlanc, may have died at Ascension in February 1793; the priest
who recorded her burial said that she was age 28. Marie died at
Ascension in February 1793, in her early 30s; her husband, Charles Bergeron,
remarried at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche the following January, so Marie
may lived there, too. Charles's three sons married at Ascension, and two of
them remained there, but youngest son Charles, fils
settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement.
Catherine Forest, age
unrecorded, came with husband Claude Gaudet, age unrecorded, and a
13-year-old son.
Pierre Forest, age 26, came
with wife Anne Dupuis, age 24, and no children. They remained at
St.-Jacques.
Joseph Forest of Pigiguit, age
19, came with wife Isabelle Léger, age unrecorded, and no children.
They remained at Cabanocé.
Marie Forest, age 17, came
alone. She married Joseph, son of fellow Acadian René dit
Jean-René Godin dit Valcour, at Cabanocé in April 1766 and died
there by April 1769, where her husband was listed in a census with another
wife.
Pierre FORET
(c1739-?; Michel, ?)
Pierre Forest, born in Acadia
in c1739, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 with wife Anne
Dupuis and no children. Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank
of the river at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1766. They may have had no
children.
Descendants of Joseph FORET
(c1746-1770s; Michel, Pierre, Pierre, fils)
Joseph, younger son of Bonaventure Forest
and Claire Rivet, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1746, became separated
from his family during Le Grand Dérangement and ended up as a prisoner in
Nova Scotia while they were exiled in Maryland. Joseph married fellow
Acadian Isabelle Léger perhaps in a prison compound in British Nova
Scotia in the early 1760s, and they came
to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1765. Spanish officials
counted them at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1766. They may have lived for a
time at New Orleans in early 1767, about the time his parents and sisters
reached the city from Maryland. Joseph's daughters married
into the Dugas and Foret families and perhaps into the Marois family
as well. Joseph remarried to Anne,
daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Martin of Port-Royal and widow of
Pierre Blanchard, at St.-Jacques in June 1775. Joseph died by July
1778, in his early 30s, when his wife remarried at St.-Jacques. His younger son settled on
upper Bayou Lafourche.
1
Older son Jean-Joseph-Bernard,
by his first wife, born at New Orleans in January 1767, may have died young.
2
Younger son Jean-Baptiste, by his first
wife, born in June 1772 probably at St.-Jacques and baptized at
St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands the following November, married
Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and Anne
Landry, at St.-Jacques in
May 1790. They settled upriver at Ascension before moving on to upper
Bayou Lafourche.
Descendants of Pierre-Paul FORET
(c1746-1797; Michel, Jean-Baptiste)
Pierre-Paul, called Paul, oldest son of Charles Forest,
by his first wife Marguerite Poirier, and older half-brother of Anselme and
Charles, fils, was born probably at Chignecto in c1746. He followed his
family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, into the prison camps of
Nova Scotia, and on to Louisiana via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1765. Spanish
officials counted him with his family on the right, or west, bank of the river
at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1766. He married Marguerite, daughter of
fellow Acadians Joseph Orillion dit Champagne and Marguerite
Dugas, probably at
Cabanocé in c1768. They were living on the west bank of the river there
in 1769, but by 1770 they were being counted at nearby Ascension, still on the
west bank. They were still there in 1777. Their daughters married into the Babin,
Landry, and Orillion families.
Paul died at Ascension in October 1797, age 51. Three of
his five sons created families of their own. All of them settled on upper
Bayou Lafourche near Paul's brother Charles, fils.
1
Oldest son Joseph, born
probably at Ascension in c1771, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of
fellow Acadians Joseph Foret and Isabelle Léger, at Ascension in February 1793. They may have lived
for a time along the upper Lafourche. Their son Pierre-Paul-Joseph
was born at Ascension in April 1796, and Joseph Séverin or Séverin
Joseph in April 1805. Joseph remarried to Marie Madeleine,
daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breaux and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at St. Gabriel in February
1807. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.
2
Clément-Anaclet, born at
Ascension in November 1773, died at age 18 months in May 1775.
3
Paul, fils born at Ascension in
November 1775, died a few weeks later.
4
Louis, born at Ascension in May
1782, married Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and
, at
Ascension in February 1802. They settled on upper Bayou
Lafourche.
5
Youngest son François-Achille, born at
Ascension in February 1784, married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians
Jean-Baptiste Bergeron, fils and Marie Babin, at Assumption in May 1802.
They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.
Descendants of Anselme FORET
(c1752-?; Michel, Jean-Baptiste)
Anselme, second son of Charles Forest,
by his second wife Marguerite Saulnier, younger half-brother of Paul
and older brother of Charles, fils, was born probably at Chignecto in c1752,
followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, into the
prison camps of Nova Scotia, and on to Louisiana in 1765. Spanish officials counted him with his
family on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1766
and near his family on the west bank at nearby Ascension in 1770. He
married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc
and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Ascension in February 1774. They were still living on the right bank
there, next to brother Paul, in 1777. Only one of his five sons married, but he may not have had sons of his own, so,
except for its blood, this line of the family may not have survived in the Bayou
State.
1
Oldest son Jean-Louis, called Louis,
baptized
at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in December 1776, married Marie-Julienne,
daughter of fellow Acadians François Duhon and Isabelle Landry, at St.-Jacques in October
1796. Their daughter married into the Barrilleaux family. He
and his wife may have had no sons.
2
Ludivic, born at St.-Jacques or
Ascension in c1777, died at Ascension in August 1799, age 22, and did not marry.
3
Paul le jeune, born at
Ascension in December 1778, may have died young.
4
Hippolyte, born at St.-Jacques
or Ascension in c1779, died at Ascension in May 1799, age 20, and did not marry.
5
Augustin, born at Ascension in
December 1780, died at age 6 months in July 1781.
~
In September
1766, three Forest individuals, a bachelor, a wife, and a widow, but no Forest
families, came to Louisiana from exile in
Maryland. They, too, settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques:
Catherine-Marie-Josèphe Forest
of Pigiguit, age 56, came with husband Jacques LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, age
58, and three daughters, ages 16, 14, and unrecorded.
Anne Forest, age 37, widow of
Pierre Babin, came with two sons, ages 11 and 6. Anne remarried to
Étienne, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Bujole, at New Orleans in c1768
and settled with him at Ascension, just upriver from Cabanocé.
Pierre Forest, age 29, came
alone. He married at New Orleans two years after he reached the
colony and settled at
St.-Jacques.
Descendants of Pierre FORET
(c1737-1770s; Michel, ?)
Pierre Forest came to Louisiana
with the first contingent of Acadian exiles from Maryland in 1766 and followed
them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. He married fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Landry
at New Orleans in c1768 and returned to Cabanocé. Spanish officials
counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabanocé in 1769.
Their daughters married into the Bergeron and Godin
families. Pierre died by April 1777, when his wife remarried at
St.-Jacques. He and his wife seem to have had no sons, so this line
of the family, except for its blood, would have died with him.
~
Three Forest families reached Louisiana from Maryland in July
1767. They had hoped to settle at Cabanocé with their wayward kin, but the
Spanish authorities, now in firm control of the colony, insisted that they
settle in a new Acadian community, St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, upriver from
Cabanocé. St.-Gabriel had easy communication with Cabanocé by water, so
the new arrivals agreed to go there:
Bonaventure Forest of Pigiguit,
age 44, came with wife Claire Rivet, age 42, and four
daughters--Marguerite, age 18, Marie, age 15, Marie-Madeleine, age 13, and
Anne-Rose or Anne-Sophie, age 12. Bonaventure and Claire had no more
children in Louisiana. Three of their daughters married into the Dugas, Hébert,
Landry, and Plide families and remained on the river. Marie
may not have married and may have died at St.-Gabriel in May 1780, in her late
20s.
Pierre Forest, age 29,
Bonaventure's older son, came
with wife Marguerite Blanchard, age 28, and three children--Pierre, fils,
age 6, Simon, age 3, and Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, an infant. They
remained at St.-Gabriel. Pierre, père remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Breaux,
widow of Olivier Babin, at nearby Ascension in December 1775.
Jean-Baptiste Forest, age 31,
came with wife Marguerite Richard, age 24, and two children--Marie, age
3, and Pierre-Moïse, called Moïse, age 1. They had another daughter in Louisiana.
Son Moïse also settled at
St.-Gabriel. Marie may have died at St.-Gabriel in May 1780, in her
late teens.
Descendants of Jean-Baptiste
FORET (c1736-1760s; Michel, ?)
Jean-Baptiste Forest, born
probably at Minas in c1736, was exiled to Maryland in 1755 in his late
teens. He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard
and Marie LeBlanc
of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, probably in the early 1760s in Maryland and
was counted with her and an orphan girl at Upper Marlborough in July 1763.
Their children, a daughter and a son, were born after 1763. Jean-Baptiste
took his family to Louisiana in 1767 with the second contingent of Acadian
exiles from Maryland and settled at St.-Gabriel d'Iberville. They had
another daughter at St.-Gabriel, who married into the Blanco family.
Jean-Baptiste died by May 1770, when his wife remarried at St.-Gabriel; he was
in his early 30s. His only son settled at St.-Gabriel and then in West
Baton Rouge Parish and had many sons of his own. This was the only line of Acadian Forets
who remained on the river. The other lines either died out or moved to
Bayou Lafourche or to the western prairies by the early 1800s.
Moïse,
born at Upper
Marlborough, Maryland, in c1766, married Bibianne, daughter of fellow Acadians
Pierre Allain and Catherine Hébert of Minas and
Baltimore, at St.-Gabriel in April 1790. They settled in what
became West Baton Rouge Parish. Their son Pierre-Moïse,
called Moïse, fils, was born at St.-Gabriel in December 1796, Michel-Rosémond probably at
Manchac, south of Baton Rouge, in September 1801 but died at age 6 in October
1807, Joseph Hippolyte was born in February 1806, Pierre Treville in
February 1808, Pierre Paulin, called Paulin, in February 1810, and Augustin Dorville,
called Dorville, in January 1812. Their daughters married into the Alexandry,
Laguionie, and Landry families.
Pierre Moïse married
Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Landry and his second
wife Marie Apolline Hébert, probably at St.
Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in the late 1810s. They settled in West Baton
Rouge Parish. Their son Jean
Théodule, called Théodule, was born in July 1823,
Pierre Adamis or Adonis,
called Adonis, in September 1827, Pierre in May 1834, and Joseph Prudent in
August 1836. Their daughters married into the Guénard (French
Creole, not Acadian), Labauve, Lejeune, and Molaison
families.
Théodule married Williamine
Octavine, called Octavine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin
and Caroline Lejeune of West Baton
Rouge Parish, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in
March 1845. Their son Pierre Edgard was born near Brusly,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1847, Louis Odilon in November
1853, Jean Baptiste René in June 1855, and Jules Eustache
in April 1861.
Adonis married Alida,
daughter of fellow Acadians Zenon Lejeune and Élise
Martin, at the Brusly church,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1849; Adonis's sister Élisabeth
married Alida's brother Alfred. Adonis's and Alida's son André Victor
was born near Brusly in April 1852, Joseph Félicien in April
1854, and Jean Louis in March 1856.
Paulin married Augustine, daughter
of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Emerite Blanchard of West Baton Rouge Parish, at the
Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1833.
Dorville married Marie Adolphine,
called Adolphine, daughter of fellow Acadians Valentin Hébert and Marie
Élise Hébert, at the Baton Rouge church,
East Baton Rouge Parish, in July 1836. They settled in West Baton Rouge
Parish. Their son Théodore Dorville was born in October 1837.
Dorville remarried to Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadians Zéphirin
Blanchard and Élise Lebert, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in June 1847.
Théodore Dorville, by his
father's first wife, married
Hélène Odile, another daughter of Zéphirin Blanchard and Élise
Lebert, at
the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in February 1865; Hélène was
a sister of Théodore Dorville's father's second wife.
Descendants of Pierre FORET
(c1743-1781; Michel, Pierre, Pierre, fils)
Pierre, older son of
Bonaventure Forest and Claire Rivet, born at
Ste-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1743, was exiled to
Maryland in 1755, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Blanchard in
c1762. They and their two young sons came to Louisiana in 1767 with the second
contingent of Maryland exiles and followed them to St.-Gabriel d'Iberville. Their daughter married into
the Dugas family. Pierre remarried to fellow
Acadian Marie Breaux, widow of Olivier Babin, at nearby Ascension
in December 1775. She gave him more children. Pierre died at
St.-Gabriel in May 1781; he was only 43 years old. Daughter Marie-Victoire or
-Victorine, by his first wife, widow of Théodore Dugas, died in Ascension
Parish in July 1853; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded her burial said that
she died at "age 89 years," but she was 86. None of Pierre's three
sons seems to have survived childhood, so his line of the family, except for its
blood, probably did not survive in the Bayou State.
1
Oldest son Pierre, fils, by his
first wife, born
probably in Maryland in c1761, likely died young.
2
Simon, by his first wife, born probably in
Maryland in c1764, also may have died young.
3
Youngest son St.-Cyre, by his
second wife, perhaps a twin, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in May 1777, probably died
young.
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The arrival dates of several members
of the family who settled on the river are difficult to determine:
Brigitte, born in Acadia in c1753,
daughter of Pierre Forest and Marie Lejeune, married Pierre, son
of fellow Acadian Pierre Breaux, at St.-Jacques in January 1776.
This is her first appearance in Louisiana records. She died in
Ascension Parish in February 1825, age 72, a widow.
Marie,
daughter of Olivier Forest and Rose-Osite Gautrot, born in Acadia in c1755, married
Jean-Baptiste, son of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Bergeron dit d'Amboise,
at St.-Jacques in January 1775. This is her first appearance in Louisiana
records. She remained at St.-Jacques and died at her son Michel Bergeron's
home, St. James Parish, in October 1847, in her early 90s.
Anne-Marie Forest came to the colony
alone. When she arrived is anyone's guess. She probably married Augustin, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry,
settled with him at St.-Gabriel and Ascension, and gave him two daughters at
Ascension in 1774 and 1779. If so, she died by August 1786, when her
husband remarried at St.-Gabriel.
Pierre Forest came to the
colony alone. When, and where he settled, is anyone's guess. He
could have been the Pierre Foret, described by the recording priest described as "very poor,"
who died in St. Landry
Parish in January 1817 at the astonishing age of 97.
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The largest group of Forests to
find refuge in Louisiana reached the colony in 1785 aboard three of the
Seven Ships from France. Most of them settled on the river but did not
remain there:
Pierre Forest, age 25, crossed
on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans
in August. He was alone. He followed the majority of his
fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.
.
Jacques Forest l'aîné of Grand-Pré,
age 76, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships,
which reached New Orleans in December. With him was second wife Frenchwoman
Angélique Richer of St.-Malo, age 43, bachelor nephew Étienne Forest,
age 35, and kinswoman Marie-Jeanne Billeray, age 27, widow of Frenchman
François Le Sommer. They followed the majority of their
fellow
passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores
north of Baton Rouge, though Étienne may have gone to the German Coast
instead. Jacques l'aîné and Angélique had no children in
Louisiana.
Jacques Forest le jeune,
age 55, crossed
on Le Ville d'Archangel with wife Marguerite-Geneviève Comeau, age
50, son Pierre-Nicolas, age 15, and kinswoman Marie Forest, age 21,
Victor's daughter. Jacques le jeune and Marguerite had no more
children in Louisiana. Pierre-Nicolas moved to the Opelousas District
in the 1790s and started a western branch of the family there.
Victor Forest of Pigiguit, age
52, Jacques l'aîné's son and Anne and Madeleine's brother, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel with
fourth wife Frenchwoman Marie-Jeanne-Catherine Richer of St.-Malo,
age 46, and seven children--Joseph-Victor, age 25, Anne-Pérrine, age 21,
Servanne-Julienne, age 17, Marie-Adélaïde, age 15, Jeanne-Élisabeth or
-Isabelle, age 13, Jean-Jacques, age 10, and Étienne-Gilles, age 7. They
followed Victor's father to Bayou des Écores, but Victor and his family did not
remain there long. By 1788, he had moved his family downriver to the Baton
Rouge area. In the 1790s, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the
Opelousas country and took his three sons with him.
Anne Forest, age 30, widow of
Simon LeBlanc, Jacques l'aîné's daughter and Madeleine and
Victor's sister, crossed on La Ville d'Archangel alone. She
probably followed her father and siblings to Bayou des Écores but was living on
upper Bayou Lafourche a few years later.
Marie Forest, age 20, Jacques le
jeune's daughter, crossed
on La Ville d'Archangel with husband Jean-Baptiste Aucoin, age 27,
and an infant daughter. They probably went to Bayou des Écores with their
fellow passengers but moved to the Opelousas District soon afterwards.
She remarried to "Acadian" Antoine Bellard, fils, who had come to
Louisiana from Maryland, at Opelousas in October 1797.
Only two of the Forests who
came from France remained on the river, and neither seems to have
created a family of his own:
Étienne FORET (c1750-;
Michel, Michel, fils)
Étienne, son of Jean-Baptist Forest
and Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc and nephew of Jacques Forest l'aîné,
was born in Acadia in c1750. He was deported probably from Île St.-Jean
to France with his family aboard one of the five British transports that reached St.-Malo in
late January 1759; he and his widowed mother were the family's only survivors. He
settled probably in the St.-Malo area near his relatives and followed his uncle Jacques to Louisiana aboard La
Ville 'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.
He was recorded with no wife on the ship's passenger list, so he probably was
still a bachelor in his mid-30s. He may have been the Étienne Foret who married
Marguerite, daughter of French Creole Jacques Clome and lived and died on
the German Coast just upriver from New Orleans. Marguerite died at the
city's Charity Hospital in April 1796; her burial record, written by a Spanish
priest, describes her as widow of Estevan Forest. If this was
him, one wonders if he fathered any children. The church records of both
St.-Charles des Allemands and St.-Jean Baptiste of the German Coast offer no
clues.
Pierre FORET (c1760-?;
Michel, ?)
Pierre Forest, a sailor, born perhaps in France in c1760, came to
Louisiana aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, in 1785.
He was still a bachelor. He followed the majority of the passengers from
his ship to Baton Rouge. One wonders what happened to him in Louisiana.
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Other FORETs on the River
Local church and civil records make it
difficult to link some Forets on the river with known Acadian lines of
the family there:
Mathieu-Joseph Foret died at
St.-Jacques in October 1776. The priest who recorded Mathieu's burial did
not bother to give his parents' names or his age at the time of his death.
Marie Foret died at St.-Gabriel
in April 1780. The priest who recorded the burial did not give
her parents' names or her age at the time of her death, so she could have been
one of two Marie Forets who lived in that settlement.
Rosalie Foret married Joachim Marois
at St.-Jacques in February 1787. The priest who recorded the marriage did
not give the couple's parents' names. Was she the Rose or
Rosalie, daughter of Joseph Foret and his first wife Isabelle Leger,
who married Acadian Michel Dugas at Ascension in July 1800?
Marguerite Foret died at
Ascension in October 1790. The priest who recorded her burial did not
bother to give her parents' names or mention a husband. He said only that
she was age 60 when she died.
Théodore Foret, husband of
Léodora Bergeron, died near Convent, St. James Parish, in February 1811.
The priest who recorded the burial said that Théodore was age 39 when he died, but the good father did not give Théodore's parents' names.
Jean Foret married Esther Mainville,
place and date unrecorded.
Their son Léopold Jean Augustin was born near Baton Rouge in October
1819.
Jules Foret died near Brusly,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in November 1855, age 19. He did not marry. The priest who recorded his burial did not give
Jules's parents' names.
Valmont Foret died near Brusly,
West Baton Rouge Parish, in January 1864. The priest who recorded
Valmont's burial did not give his age, mention a wife, or give his parents'
names. One wonders if Valmont's death was war-related or if he was Acadian.
Jean Marie Théodore, called Théodore,
Forest married Maria Angela or Angelica Berthelot, place and date
unrecorded. Daughter Marie Louise Eléonor was born near
Convent, St. James Parish, in December 1866, and Marie Angelica Théodora in
October 1869.
LOUISIANA: LAFOURCHE VALLEY
SETTLEMENTS
A Forest who came to Louisiana
from France in 1785 chose to settle on upper Bayou Lafourche:
Madeleine Forest, age 43,
crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New
Orleans in November. With her were husband Bénoni Blanchard, age 45, and six
children, ages 18 to 3. Madeleine died in Assumption Parish in November 1814,
in her early 70s.
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The first Foret to create a
family on the upper bayou was not a refugee from France, as usually was the case, but
a 1765 arrival who moved there from the river in the late 1780s or early 1790s. Three of his nephews from
Ascension and a cousin from St.-Jacques joined him on the upper bayou during the early antebellum period, creating what
became the largest center of Foret family settlement. During the
antebellum period, some of them moved down bayou as far as the Terrebonne
country:
Anne-Rose, called Rosalie, Foret,
a native of Maryland and widow of Michel Dugas, died in Assumption Parish in September 1844.
The Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that Rosalie died at "age
78 yrs.," but she probably was in her late 80s.
Descendants of Charles FORET, fils
(1764-1821; Michel, Jean-Baptiste)
Charles, fils, third and
youngest son of
Charles Forest, by his second wife Marguerite Saulnier, born
probably at Halifax in September 1764, followed his family to Louisiana via
Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765. He was baptized at New Orleans on 10 December 1765, giving
an idea of when the family reached the colony. Spanish officials counted him with his family on the right,
or west, bank of the river at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in 1766 and 1769 and on the
west bank at nearby Ascension in 1770 and 1777. He married cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Blanchard
and his second wife Madeleine Forest, at
Ascension in February 1786.
Charles and Marie-Madeleine were living on upper
Bayou Lafourche by 1791, the first Foret family to settle there. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Duhon,
Fait, Landry, and Theriot
families. Charles, fils died in Assumption Parish
in January 1821, age 57. Five of his six sons married
and settled in Assumption and Lafourche Interior parishes. His was not
only the first Foret family to settle on the bayou but also the most
prolific line of the family there. Most of his descendants remained
in Assumption Parish.
1
Oldest son Charles-Béloni,
baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in April 1787, married Angélique,
daughter of fellow Acadians Amable Landry and Ursule Pitre, at Assumption in February 1807.
Their son Jean Charles, called Charles, was born in Assumption Parish in September 1809, Étienne
Rosémond, called Rosémond, in November 1811, Pierre Evariste,
called Evariste, in October 1813, Firmin
in July 1816 but died at age 12 1/2 in January 1829, Élie Marius, called
Marius, was
born in January 1819, Jean Zenon, called Zenon, in July 1821 but
died at age 6 in October 1827, and Jules was born in
February 1826. Their daughter married into the Pomponeau
family.
1a
Jean Charles married Marie Louise,
daughter of fellow Acadians Blaise Boudreaux and Perrine
Barrilleaux of Lafourche Interior Parish, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in November 1833. Their son Baptiste Eugène was
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1834. After the death of his
wife, Jean Charles filed a succession inventory at the Thibodauxville courthouse
in April 1835, and remarried to Marcellite or Marcelline,
daughter of Joseph Rousseau and his Acadian wife Eulalie LeBlanc, at the Thibodauxville church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1837;
Jean Charles's younger brother Marius married Marcellite's sister Marie.
Jean Charles and Marcellite's son Oleus Cletus was born in Assumption Parish in January 1845,
and Charles Oscar near Labadieville in December 1858.
Their daughters married into the Bourg and Perque families.
1b
Rosémond married distant cousin Elise
or Elisa, daughter of fellow Acadian Henri Landry, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in May 1835. Their son Joseph Eugène,
called Eugène, was born in Assumption Parish in December 1837 but died
at age 11 months in October 1838. Rosémond remarried to Marie, daughter of
Étienne Ordoneaux and his Acadian wife Marie Aimée Blanchard, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in June 1847; the marriage also was registered in Terrebonne
Parish. Their son Ovide Voltaire
was born in Terrebonne Parish in June 1848, Joachim Martial at Bayou
Black in August 1849, Justilien in April 1855, and Cyprien in
September 1860.
1c
Evariste married Marie, daughter of
François Truxillo and Azélie Rousseau, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in June 1835. Their son Jules died in
Assumption Parish, age 2 months, in July 1836. Evariste remarried to Cléonise,
called Léonise, daughter of
fellow Acadians François Barrilleaux and Florence Aucoin, at the Plattenville church in
January 1839. Their son Anatole Demetrius Homere was born in
Assumption Parish in October 1843, and Ernest Cyprien in April 1851.
Their daughter married into the Boudreaux family. Evariste died
in Assumption Parish in October 1853; the Plattenville priest who recorded
his burial said that Evariste died at "age ca. 37 years," but he was 40.
Anatole married Eliska,
daughter of Rosémond Fremin and his Acadian wife Aglaie
Thibodeaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in
February 1868.
1d
Marius married Marie, another daughter of Joseph Rousseau
and Eulalie LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption
Parish, in January 1844; Marie's sister
Marcellite was the second wife of Marius's oldest brother Jean Charles.
Marius and Marie's
son Clet Marcellus was born in Assumption Parish in August 1844, Désiré in August 1846,
Marcellin Gustave in April 1848, and Prosper Villeaux in
December 1850.
Désiré died near Labadieville,
Assumption Parish, in January 1864, age 17. One wonders if his death was war-related.
Marcellin married Philomène,
daughter of François Berthelot and his Acadian wife Aglae
LeBlanc, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in
March 1867.
1e
Jules married Élodie, daughter of
fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Guillot and Adeline Barrilleaux, at the Plattenville church,
Assumption Parish, in January 1853. Their son Léon Anatole was
born near Labadieville in July 1857. Jules remarried to Léonide,
daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Comeaux and Eulalie Gaudet, at the Plattenville church
in September 1864. Their son Alexandre Arthur was born near
Labadieville in March 1867, and Ernest Cyprien in September 1868.
2
Ambroise-Paul, born at
Assumption in August 1793 but died at age 3 1/2 months the following
November.
3
Pierre-Aurelien, baptized at
Assumption, age unrecorded, in June 1797, married Marie Cléonise, called Cléonise,
daughter of fellow
Acadians Pierre Bourg and Félicité Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
June 1819. Their son Pierre Julien Comes was born in Assumption
Parish in June 1823. Pierre died in Assumption Parish in August 1823; the
priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 28 when he died,
but he was 25.
4
Élie, born at Assumption in
March 1799, married Marie Josette or Joséphine, called Joséphine, daughter of
fellow Acadians Paul Pitre and Céleste Blanchard, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish,
in February 1825. Their son Désiré Azena, Augena, or Engenas, also
called Agenai Désiré and Joseph Augena, was born in Assumption
Parish in January 1826, Élie Maximin, called Maximin, in December 1827, Valéry
Jean Baptiste in April 1829, Charles Valsin in December 1840, and
Hippolyte in September 1844. Their daughter married into the
Escaine family. Élie died in Assumption Parish in
February 1846, age 46. One of his sons moved to the
Brashear, now Morgan, City, area on the lower Atchafalaya in the late 1850s, but the others
remained in Assumption Parish. The son who moved to the Brashear City
area, in fact, returned to Assumption Parish in the mid-1860s.
4a
Valéry married Célestine or
Céleste, daughter
of fellow Acadians Joseph Daigle and Céleste Daigle, at the Paincourtville church,
Assumption Parish, in May 1848. Their son Clairville or
Clerville, a twin, was baptized at Paincourtville, age illegible,
in September 1849 but died the following November, Joseph Romain,
called Romain, was born in January 1850 but died at age 1 1/2
in October 1852, and Adam Lubin was born near Brashear City, now
Morgan City, St. Mary Parish, on the lower Atchafalaya, in March 1862, and
Joseph Léo near Paincourtville in January 1865.
Their daughter married into the Hébert family. Valéry died near
Paincourtville in November 1868; the priest who recorded the burial said
that Valéry died at "age 35 years," but he was 39.
4b
Augena married first
cousin Marie Asema, called Asema, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Foret
and Denise Theriot, his uncle and aunt, at the
Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1852; they had to secure a
dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.
Their son Joseph Élie, called Élie, was born near Paincourtville in June 1856
but died at age 4 1/2 in February 1861, Joseph Désiré was born in
September 1859, and Joseph Nicomide in December 1861. Augena,
called Angena by the recording priest, died near Paincourtville in August
1863, age 37; one wonders if his death was war-related.
His twin daughters were born a month before he died, but they, too, died,
the following September and October; pity Asema that terrible summer and
fall, when she buried a husband and two infants.
4c
Maximin married Angelina, daughter
of Balthazar Percle and Marie Oubane, at the Pierre Part church,
Assumption Parish, in May 1860. Their son Marcellin Désiré was
born near Pierre Part in August 1861. Maximin died in Assumption
Parish in July 1863; the Paincourtville priest who recorded his burial said
that Maximin died at "age 37 years," but he was 35. His older
brother Augena died a month after he did. One wonders if their deaths
were war-related.
5
Hippolyte, born at Assumption
in April 1805, married Henriette, daughter of Joseph Antoine Arao, Araou,
Araos, Ardos, Arouso, or Harahoue and Marie
Antoinette Millan, at
the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1827. Their son Clet
Hippolyte was born in Assumption Parish in June 1827, and Marcellin
died at birth in April 1834. Their daughters married into the
Brogden and Himel
families.
6
Youngest son Joseph, a twin, born in
Assumption Parish in November 1810, married Denise, daughter of fellow Acadians
François Theriot and Marie Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior
Parish, in August 1830. Their son Élie le jeune was born in
Assumption Parish in May 1831. Their daughter married a Foret first
cousin.
Élie le jeune married
Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadian Urbain Bourg, at the Thibodaux
church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1854. Their son Joseph Numa
was born in Assumption Parish in December 1854, Adam Ernest near
Canal in August 1861, and an unnamed son died at age 5 months in July 1865. Élie le jeune
remarried to Marie-Léonelle, called Léonelle, daughter of Joseph Gastal, Gastale, or Gastel
and Celina Fremin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1868.
Their daughter Joséphine married Joseph Albert Moïse and
settled in Morgan City, St. Mary Parish.
Descendants of Joseph FORET
(c1771-1832; Michel, Jean-Baptiste, Charles)
Joseph, eldest son of Pierre-Paul Foret
and Marguerite Orillion and nephew of Charles, fils, born
probably at Ascension in c1771, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of
fellow Acadians Joseph Foret and Isabelle Léger, at Ascension in February 1793. Their daughter married
into the LeBlanc family. Joseph remarried to Marie Madeleine,
daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breaux and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at St. Gabriel in February
1807. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near his uncle and younger
brothers. Their daughter married
into the Roger family. Joseph died in Lafourche Interior
Parish in December 1832; the Thibodauxville priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph was
age 64 when he died, but he was closer to 61.
1
Older son Pierre-Paul-Joseph,
called Paul, from his first wife, born at Ascension in April
1796, married Rose Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Tranquille Arcement
and Anne Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1826.
Their son Pierre Paul was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January
1831, and Joseph le jeune in February 1833. Their daughters married into
the Authement, Brien, Duplantis, and Pelegrin or
Peregrin families.
Joseph le jeune married
Anna or Hannah, also called Allo, daughter of fellow Acadians Hippolyte Doucet
and Clementine Bourg of New
Iberia, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1855. Their
son Joseph Israël was born in Terrebonne Parish in August 1857, Paul Cletus in March 1860,
Théophile Augustin in August 1864, and Ozémé Raphaël near
Montegut in October 1870.
2
Younger son Joseph Séverin or Séverin
Joseph, from his first wife, born at
Ascension in April 1805, married Marie Clémence, daughter of
fellow Acadians Joseph Benoît Richard and Isabelle Anne Rassicot, at the Thibodauxville church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1829. Their son Joseph
Valfroi, called Valfroi, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1832, Pierre
Paul in October 1833, Trasimond Séverin in March 1835, Joseph
Zéphirin, called Zéphirin, in December 1838, Evariste Onésime
or Onésippe, also called Charles, in September 1842,
Théophile, also called Ellis,
in November 1844, and
Adrien Richard, called Richard,
in November 1846. They also had sons named Marcellin and Justilien. Their daughter married into the Ayo family. Séverin died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in
September 1853; the priest who recorded his burial said that Séverin died "at
age 45 yrs.," but he was 48; an "oath of tutor" in his name and listing his
children was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse in March 1854.
2a
Valfroi married Marie
Euphrosine, called Euphrosine, daughter of Auguste Ledet and his
Acadian wife Modeste LeBlanc, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1854. Their son Joseph was born near Lockport,
Lafourche Parish, in April 1857, and ___ Félicien was baptized at the
Lockport church, age unrecorded, in November 1868.
2b
Trasimond married Melasie,
daughter of fellow Acadians Narcisse LeBlanc and Celina
Robichaux, at the Raceland church,
Lafourche Parish, in October 1855. They settled near Lockport.
2c
Marcellin married Mathilde,
daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Breaux and Marguerite
Roger, at the Raceland church,
Lafourche Parish, in May 1857. Their son Jean Beautor was born
near Lockport in March 1860.
2d
Zéphirin married Emelina, called
Melina, another
daughter of Narcisse LeBlanc and Celina Robichaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish
in May 1863. They settled near Lockport.
2e
Onésippe, called Charles by the
recording priest, married Philomène,
daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Barrilleaux and Adèle dite
Choinette Theriot, at the Lockport
church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1866. Their son Joseph Norbert
was born near Lockport in June 1867.
2f
Justilien married Eliska or Elisa, another
daughter of Valéry Breaux and Marguerite Roger, at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish,
in July 1866. Their son Joseph Lee was born near Lockport in
September 1868, and Joseph David was baptized at the Lockport church,
age unrecorded, in October 1870.
2g
Ellis married Louisa, daughter of
fellow Acadians Étienne LeBlanc and Azélie Bertrand, at the Lockport church, Lafourche
Parish, in December 1866. They settled near Raceland.
2h
Richard married Florence, another
daughter of Joseph Barrilleaux and Adèle dite Choinette
Theriot, at the Lockport church, Lafourche
Parish, in February 1867.
Descendants of Louis FORET
(1782-c1805; Michel, Jean-Baptiste, Charles)
Louis, fourth son of Pierre-Paul Foret
and Marguerite Orillion and nephew of Charles, fils, born at Ascension in May
1782, married Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Dugas and
Rose LeBlanc, at Ascension in February 1802 and settled on
upper Bayou Lafourche near his uncle and brothers. Their 15-month-old
daughter Delphine was granted tutelage by the Lafourche Interior Parish court in
July 1805 because Louis had died by then; he would have been age 23 that year. Delphine married into the Bourgeois
family. Louis and his wife may have had no sons, so this line of the
family, except for its blood, probably died with him.
Descendants of François-Achille
FORET (1784-1844; Michel, Jean-Baptiste, Charles)
François-Achille, fifth and youngest
son of Pierre-Paul Foret and Marguerite Orillion and nephew of Charles, fils,
born at
Ascension in February 1784, married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians
Jean-Baptiste Bergeron, fils and Marie Babin, at Assumption in May 1802.
They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near his uncle and older brothers. Their daughters married into the Bernard, Destival,
Mire, Monier or Monnier, and Robichaux families.
François Achille died in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1844, age 60; a petition for succession inventory was filed at the Thibodaux courthouse
in July 1845.
1
Oldest son François Placide,
called Placide, baptized at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, age unrecorded, in August
1806, married Marguerite Eugènie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians
François Babin and Henriette Broussard of Iberville Parish, at the Thibodauxville church,
Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1825. Their son François Achille
le jeune was
born in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1827, Hippolyte Narcisse in
August 1834, and twins Jean Baptiste Ovile and Pierre Deterville
le jeune in September 1837. Their daughter married into the Theriot
family. Placide died near Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in March 1867; the
priest who recorded the burial said that François Placide died at age 63.
1a
François Achille le jeune
married Marie Isabella, called Isabella and Élizabeth, daughter of Ulgère Hotard
and Héloise Tausin, at the
Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October 1847. Their
son François Jean Baptiste Félix, called J. Félix, was born in Lafourche Interior
Parish in August 1848, and Pierre Félix Félicien near Raceland in
March 1861.
J. Félix married Marie
Théolina or Théolaine Autin in a civil ceremony in Lafourche
Parish in October 1866. Their son Louis Marcellin was born
near Raceland in January 1870.
1b
Hippolyte Narcisse married
Virginie, daughter of Creoles Fergus Bourgeois and Eugènie
Baudoin, at the Raceland
church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1855. Their son Hippolyte
Fergus was born near Raceland in May 1859, and Léo Félicien in
January 1864.
1c
Pierre Deterville le jeune
married Louisa or Émelie, daughter of George Falgout and Useline
Champagne, in a civil
ceremony in Lafourche Parish in June 1857. Their son Pierre
Deterville, fils was born near Raceland in September
1860, and Jean Baptiste Ovile le jeune in April 1870.
1d
Jean Baptiste Ovile married
Céleste Clementine, called Clementine, daughter of Antoine Matherne
and his Acadian wife Céleste Savoie, in a civil
ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1858. They settled near Raceland and then in Terrebonne Parish.
2
Achille Adoptal, Adoptel,
or Adolphe, baptized at
the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, age 15 months, in October 1808,
married Julie, 15-year-old daughter of Auguste Tourelle and Catherine
Portier of
St. James Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in
September 1829. Their son Ulysse was born in Lafourche Interior
Parish in January 1841, Félix Achille Laida in December 1844, Onésime
Filema in December 1846, François Trasimond in January 1849, Félix
Zezulma near Raceland in March 1851, and Eugène Théolise in June 1858
but died at age 5 months the following November. Their daughters married into the
Baudoin,
Foret, Grabert, Lagain, and Sanchez families.
Achille, called Doctel Achille by the priest who recorded the burial, died near
Raceland in April 1863; the priest did not give Achille's age at the time of his
death, but he was in his late 50s. One wonders if his death was war-related. A "petition for tutorship"
in Achille's name, listing his children, was filed at the Thibodaux
courthouse in November 1865.
2a
Ulysse died near Raceland,
Lafourche Parish, in February 1860, age 19, and did
not marry.
2b
Félix married Baptistine Hotard,
widow of Charles Dutilleu, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in
February 1867. Their son Alphonse was born near Raceland in
October 1869.
2c
François married Irma, daughter of
Paul Autin and his Acadian wife Adeline Hébert, in a
civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in April 1869.
3
Pierre Deterville, called
Deterville, born in
Assumption Parish in July 1810, married Mélanie, 17-year-old daughter of Alexis Autin
and Marie Aubert of St. John the Baptiste Parish, at the
Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1832. Their
son Pierre Cléoville was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September
1833, Félicien in December 1834, Pierre Deterville Justilien,
called Justilien,
in June 1838, and François Alexis in December 1842. Their daughters
married into the Bourgeois, Falgout, and Thibodeaux
families.
3a
Félicien married Céleste Justine,
called Justine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cyprien Bourgeois
and Marie Céleste Landry, at the Raceland
church, Lafourche Parish, in July 1855; Félicien's sister Froselie Mélanie
married Céleste's brother Pierre Evelien. Félicien and Justine's son
Joseph Désiré was born near Raceland in January 1869.
3b
Justilien married fellow
Acadian Celina Blanchard, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in
March 1864. Their son Pierre Félicien was born near Raceland in
February 1867.
4
Youngest son Jean Baptiste Edmond,
called Edmond, born probably in Assumption Parish in the 1810s, married Estelle Vina,
daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Louis Martin and Céleste
Theriot, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in October 1835. Their son Jean Baptiste Edmond,
fils was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1836, Sylvain
Adam, called Adam, in August 1839, Hippolyte in December 1845, and Louis Ozémé,
called Ozémé,
in April 1849. They also had a son named Jules, unless he was
Hippolyte. Their daughter married into the Robichaux
family.
4a
Adam married first cousin Berthilde Odalie or Odalie Berthilde,
also called Ordalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Achille Adoptel
Foret and Julie Tourelle, his uncle and aunt, at the Raceland church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1856.
Their son Joseph Adam was born near Raceland in January 1864 but died
at age 15 months in April 1865, Oscar Adam was born in June 1868, and
Sylvain Lucimien in December 1870.
4b
Jules died, or at least was
buried, at Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in February 1863, age 18, and probably did not marry. One wonders if his death was
war-related.
4c
Ozémé married Eugènie, daughter of
Eugène Lagain, Laguin, Laquin, or Layain
and Marie Metier, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in October
1867. They settled near Raceland.
Descendants of Jean-Baptiste
FORET (1772-1842; Michel, Pierre, Pierre, fils,
Bonaventure)
Jean-Baptiste, younger son of Joseph Forest
and his first wife Isabelle Léger, born probably at St.-Jacques in June
1772 and baptized at St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands the following November, married
Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and Anne
Landry, at St.-Jacques in
May 1790. They settled upriver at Ascension before moving to upper
Bayou Lafourche. Their daughter married into the Barrios (Spanish
Creole, not Acadian) family. Jean Baptiste, père died in Lafourche
Interior Parish in September 1842, age 70. Two of his three
sons married, but only one of their lines survived.
1
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste,
fils, called Jean, born at Ascension in January 1798, married Marguerite, daughter of
Manuel Barrios
and Antonia dite Antoinette Mora Rodriguez of the
Canary Islands, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1820. One
wonders if they had any children.
2
Michel, born at Assumption in March
1800, married Céleste, 18-year-old daughter of German Creole François Schweitzer,
also called Chaistre, Choise, Choiste, Choitre, Chouasse, Chouave,
Chouest, Choueste, Chousse, and Shoesse, and
his wife Dorothée Wileich or Vilick, in
a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1825, and sanctified the
marriage at
the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1829. Their
son Joseph Michel was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1833, François
Robert, called Robert, in November 1837, Barthélemy in November 1839, Théodule
Cleopha in January 1848, and Jean Caliste, called Caliste, in June 1850.
They also had a son named Alfred. Their
daughters married into the Buford, Domingue, Guidry, Martin, Mayet, and Soudellier
families. A "petition for tutorship" in Michel's name, listing his
children, was filed at the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in May 1860; he
would have been age 60 that year.
2a
Alfred married Marie Louise,
called Louise, daughter of
Édouard Pichoff and his Acadian wife Rosema Dugas, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in June
1863; Louise's mother was a Dugas. Their son Toussaint
Alidor was born in Terrebonne Parish in November 1864, and Alfred
Beauregard in January 1870.
2b
Caliste married Evelia, daughter
of fellow Acadian Edmond Guidry and his Creole wife Elmire
Belanger, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne
Parish, in February 1869, on the same day his brother Robert married, but at
a different place.
2c
Robert married Marie Angelina,
daughter of Washington Whitney and Arthémise Duplantis, at the Houma church, Terrebonne
Parish, in February 1869, on the same day his brother Caliste married, but
at a different place.
2d
Théodule married Aimée, daughter
of D. Joseph Dupré and his Acadian wife Céleste Pitre, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in May
1870; Aimée's mother was a Pitre.
3
Youngest son Joseph, born probably at
Assumption in c1807, died in Ascension Parish in August 1827, age 20, and did not marry.
Other FORETs in the Lafourche/Terrebonne
Valley
Area church and civil records make it
difficult to link some Forets in the Bayou Lafourche/Bayou Terrebonne valley with known
Acadian lines of the family there:
Marguerite Foret gave birth to
son Moïse in Assumption Parish in November 1817. The priest who
recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name or the names of
the grandparents.
Joseph Foret married Marie
Uranie or Ursine LeBlanc, place and date unrecorded. Their son Lezin Joseph was born in
Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1844, and daughter Marie Elvira on Bayou
Black, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1847. They moved to the western
prairies by the early 1850s.
Rosalie Foret gave birth to son
Fleuri Ernest in Terrebonne Parish in December 1852. The Houma
priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's or the mother's
parents' names.
Jean Samuel Foret married
Acadian Melie Eveline Dantin, place and date unrecorded, and settled in Terrebonne Parish by the
mid-1850s. Their daughter Marie Clara Domitille was born in Terrebonne
Parish in October 1856.
Rosémond Foret married Hilaire
LeBlanc, place and date unrecorded. Their son Joseph Ernest was born near Lockport,
Lafourche Parish, in March 1861.
François Foret married Ermelise
Molenaire, place and date unrecorded. Daughter Clarisse Elmire was
born in Terrebonne Parish in September 1863.
Marie Eve, daughter of Marie
Foret, was born in Terrebonne Parish in October 1864.
The Houma priest who recorded the baptism did not give the girl's father's
name or the mother's parents' names.
François Foret married Marie
Eulasie or Eulalie Dyan, place and date unrecorded. Their daughter
Evelina Zelona near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in January 1865, son Paul in April 1867,
and daughter Marie Rosémée in May 1869.
Placide Foret died near
Raceland, Lafourche Parish, in May 1865. The priest who recorded his
burial did not give Placide's age, his parents' names, or mention a wife.
Joseph Foret married Rosalie
Foret, place and date unrecorded. Their son Joseph Augustin was born near Montegut in March 1867.
Édouard Pontiff Foret married
Rosena Dugas, place and date unrecorded. Their daughter Marie married into the Buford family
in Terrebonne Parish in April 1867.
Victorine Foret gave birth to
son Marcellin Octave Elesse near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in March
1868.
Joseph ___, son of ____ Foret
and ____ LeBlanc, was baptized at the Lockport church, Lafourche Parish,
age unrecorded, in October 1868. The boy's middle name and his parents'
names are illegible in the baptismal record.
Marie Foret
died near Raceland, age 8 months, in May 1869. The priest who
recorded the burial did not give any parents' names.
Michel Foret married Priscilla
Cain in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1870. The
parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.
Ovile Foret died near Raceland,
Lafourche Parish, in February 1870, age 4 months. The
priest who recorded the boy's burial did not give the parents' names.
NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA
During the colonial and antebellum
periods, as early
as the 1720s, Frenchmen
with similar-sounding names, no kin
to the Forests of Acadia, settled at New Orleans and on the river above
the city near where their Acadian namesakes eventually settled:
Dominique Forée, a native of
Gex, on the Swiss border, Diocese of Besancon, France, was a corporal in the
company of Demerveilleux when married Francoise Bouché of Rennes,
Brittany, at New Orleans in February 1725. One of his sergeant's was a
witness to his marriage.
Louis Foré, "surnamed Richeleiu,"
married Louise-Marguerite Teillen, place and date unrecorded. Their son Louis-Gabriel was
born at New Orleans in March 1765.
Maria, daughter of Angelica Fores,
married Antonio Joseph, son of Joseph Manuel Bagarin and Antonia Maria De
Mesa of Caracas, Venezuela, at New Orleans in May 1784. Maria probably
was Spanish. Angelica, still unmarried, died at New Orleans in March 1800,
in her late 60s.
Hyacinthe Foré married
Marguerite Carel, place and date unrecorded. Their son Hyacinthe, fils was born at New
Orleans in February 1786.
Guillaume, son of Pierre Foré
and Anne Dardenne of Toulouse, France, was a 28-year-old soldier in the
third company, second battalion, stationary regiment of the
province of Louisiana, and still a bachelor, when he died at New Orleans in December 1790.
Louis, son of Louis LaForet or LaForest
and
Judith Normand of "Santa Catarina," married Emerica, Emérite, Émelie,
or Emerentianne, daughter of French Creole Joseph Goudreau, at St.-Jacques
on the Lower Acadian Coast in September
1792. Their son, name unrecorded, died at St.-Jacques, age 10 months,
in December 1795, and Joseph was born at Ascension in December 1803. Their
daughter married into the Guidry family. Joseph died in Ascension
Parish in February 1839, age 35; the priest who recorded the
burial said nothing of Joseph having a wife, so this line of the family, except for
its blood, may have died with him.
~
During the antebellum period, Forêts and Forests,
called Foreign French by native Louisianians, came to the Bayou State. At
least two of them settled near their Acadian namesakes on the western prairies
and along Bayou Lafourche, but most of them remained at New Orleans. One
Forest who settled on lower Bayou Teche was a native of Germany:
Michel, son of Jacques Forêt
and Madeleine Jean of Toulon, France, had been living in the Grand Coteau
area of St. Landry Parish "for 3 to 4 years" when he married Julie,
daughter of German Creole Michel Rether or Ritter, at the
Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in January 1816. Their son Michel,
fils was born near Grand Coteau in May 1830 but died at age 6 in August 1836.
Their daughters married into the Bergeron (French Creole, not Acadian), Marks,
Savoy, Stelly, and Taylor families.
Michel, père died near Grand Coteau in December 1839, age 58; his succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse the following
March. His family line, except for its blood, probably died with
him.
Auguste Charles, son of Gabriel Forêt
and Charlotte Guenelle of France, married Julienne Felonise, daughter of
Acadian Joseph Simon Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marie Julienne
Brossier, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche
Interior Parish, in January 1823. Their child, name
unrecorded, died in Lafourche Interior Parish, age 4 months, in March
1824.
Francisca Forest married John
Schwartz in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in September 1861.
The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents'
names. Francisca's name actually was Franziska Förstl, and she was
native Niederhausen, Freiburg, Baden, Germany. Her husband, Johann
Schwarz, was from Eilingen, Prussia. They settled at Franklin, where
Franziska's first cousin, Valentin Ibert, ran a mortuary that is still in
operation today.
~
Some Forets were neither
Acadian nor French but Afro Creoles owned by Acadian Forets:
Honoré, son of Séverin Foret's
slave Esther, was born near Raceland, Lafourche Interior Parish, in October
1846. The priest who baptized Honoré called him a Foret but did not
give the father's name. Esther's daughter Elisa Marie was born near
Raceland in September 1851. Ferdinand, son of "Miss Séverin"
Foret's slave Esther, was born near Raceland in June
1853.
Jean, son of Jean Baptiste Foret's
slave Joséphine, was born near Raceland in May 1853.
~
After the War of 1861-65, a Forêt
from New Orleans settled among his namesakes on upper Bayou Lafourche:
Antony "of New Orleans," son of Medard Forêt
and Élizabeth Victor, married Rosalie, daughter of Jean
Baptiste Asemard, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in
November 1868.
CONCLUSION
Forests settled early in Acadia
and were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in
Louisiana. Pierre Forest came to the colony in February 1765 with the Joseph
Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax via
St.-Domingue. He followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley
but failed to produce a family there, at least none that lasted.
More Forests came to Louisiana in 1765, 1766, and 1767 from
Halifax and Maryland, and from France in 1785. They settled not on the western prairies but on the
river above New Orleans in the area that became known as the Acadian Coast. By the
early antebellum period, however, only one line of Acadian Forets remained on the
river, descendants of a 1767 immigrant from Maryland who had settled at
St.-Gabriel d'Iberville before moving to what became West Baton Rouge Parish.
The other lines on the river had either died out or moved elsewhere. A western
branch of the family finally emerged in the
1790s when several Forets from the river moved to the Opelousas
District, but only a single family line survived there, in what became St. Landry
and Evangeline parishes; they were especially numerous in the Ville Platte area. Meanwhile, Forets
from the Acadian Coast moved to upper Bayou Lafourche and created a vigorous
center of family settlement. During the antebellum period, most
Forets
lived in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley from Assumption down to the coastal
marshes of Terrebonne Parish. By the early 1860s, a Foret from
upper Bayou Lafourche had moved to Brashear, now Morgan, City, in St. Mary
Parish, and another to the coastal marshes of the Creole area of what was then
Calcasieu Parish, but the great majority of their cousins remained on the southeastern
bayous. The Foret who had moved to the Brashear City area, in fact,
returned to Assumption Parish during the mid-1860s.
Not all of the Forets of
South Louisiana were descendants of Michel de Forest of Leyden and
Port-Royal.
Frenchmen with similar-sounding surnames came to the colony as early as the
1720s. Most of them remained at New Orleans, but one, Louis LaForet,
settled at St.-Jacques on the Acadian Coast in the 1790s. During the
antebellum period, Foreign-French Forêts and a German Förstl,
called a Forest, settled in St. Landry and
St. Mary parishes and on upper Bayou Lafourche, where Acadian Forets had gone. However, especially along Bayou Lafourche, their numbers remained small compared
to their Acadians namesakes. Also during the antebellum period, slaves
with the surname Foret lived on Bayou Lafourche farms owned by Acadian
members of the family. ...
In Acadia, the family dropped the "de" in their
name, leaving only Forest. The family's name evolved
into Foret in Louisiana, where the name Forest is
uncommon today. The family's name also is spelled Desforets, Faurais,
Fauret, Forait, Foraix, Foray, Foré, Fores, Forett, Forey, Forez, Forrest, Forret, Froet, Fure, LaForet. The descendants of Michel
de Forest should not be confused with
their fellow Acadians, the De La Forestries of Île St.-Jean, who came to
Louisiana from France, or with the Forêts and LaForets of France, who
were French Creoles or Foreign French in Louisiana, not Acadians. [For the
Acadian family's Louisiana "begats,"
see
Book Ten]
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544-49, 960-64, 1383-86, 2488-90;
Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia,
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5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian
Archives 1905, 2A:26-27, 42; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert,
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