APPENDICES

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

[lah-FAY]

LOUISIANA: RIVER SETTLEMENTS

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Marie-Marquis Lafaye, daughter of _____ Lafaye and Catherine Comeau, was Acadian on her father's side as well as her mother's. Marie was counted at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, now St. James Parish, in the census of 1766 living with her widowed mother and the family of Abraham Roy, who may have been a relative.

CONCLUSION

Since Marie-Marquis was the only Acadian Lafaye to reach Louisiana, the members of that family in the Bayou State today are either French Creole or Foreign French, not Acadian. [See also Book Ten]

Sources: [see below]

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):

Asc	Ascension	Lf	Lafourche (Lafourche, Terrebonne)	PCP	Pointe Coupée
Asp	Assumption	Natc	Natchitoches (Natchitoches)	SB	San Bernardo (St. Bernard)
Atk	Attakapas (St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion)	Natz	San Luìs de Natchez (Concordia)	StG	St.-Gabriel d'Iberville (Iberville)
BdE	Bayou des Écores (East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana)	NO	New Orleans (Orleans)	StJ	St.-Jacques de Cabanocé (St. James)
BR	Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge)	Op	Opelousas (St. Landry, Calcasieu)

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.

Name	Arrived	Settled	Profile
Marie-Marquis LAFAYE 01	1765	StJ	born c1750; daughter of ______ LAFAYE & Catherine COMEAUX; arrived LA 1765, age 15; in Cabanocé census, 1766, left [east] bank, called Marie Marquis "niece" [actually daughter] of Catherine [COMEAUX] widow LAFAYE, age 16, with widowed mother & family of Abraham ROY

NOTES

01. Wall of Names, 19 (pl. 4L), calls her Marie-Marquis LAFAYE. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 169.

What happened to her in LA? I have not found the LAFAYE family in either Arsenault, Généalogie, or White, DGFA-1, so I must assume that the researchers at the Acadian Memorial have found an Acadian origin for this family that has eluded me.

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