APPENDICES

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

MAZEROLLE

[MAZ-uh-roll]

ACADIA

Louis Mezerrolet or Mazerolle dit Saint-Louis, born in France in c1661, married 29-year-old Geneviève Forest, widow of François Savary, at Port-Royal in c1692.  Louis dit Saint-Louis and Geneviève had five children, three daughters and two sons.  In late August 1714, after the turmoil of Queen Anne's War had left peninsula Acadia in the hands of the British, Louis dit Saint-Louis and other Nova Scotia Acadians traveled aboard the French vessel La Marie Joseph to the new French colony of Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, in a region called the French Maritimes.  Louis and his family like what they saw; they settled at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale before moving on to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island.  Louis dit Saint-Louis died probably on one of the Maritime islands in late 1747 or early 1748, in his late 80s.  Two of his daughters married into the Roy, Darembourg, and Philippe families.  His sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest daughter Cécile, born at Port-Royal, married Philippe, son of Jean Roy dit La Liberté and Marie Aubois, at Grand-Pré in August 1718.  They remained at Minas.

Louis dit Saint-Louis's third and youngest daughter Marie, born at Port-Royal in May 1708, followed her family to the French Maritimes.  She married Frenchman Pierre Darembourg at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in 1722.  In 1752, the census taker on the island counted her with second husband Étienne-Charles Philippe dit LaRoche, a native of Paris, at Rivière-du-Nord-Est.  The French official noted that Étienne-Charles was age 37, but he did not give Marie's age.  Nor did he record how long Étienne-Charles had "been in the country."  With Étienne and Marie were six children, all boys, ages 15 to 3--the youngest four, identified as belonging to Étienne, bearing the surname Philippe.  The two older boys bore the surname Du Rambour, likely Marie's sons from her first marriage to Pierre Darembourg. 

Louis dit Saint-Louis's older son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1711, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Doiron and Anne LeBlanc of Pigiguit, in c1735 and chose to return to peninsula Nova Scotia.  Their daughter Marie-Josèphe was born at Grand-Pré in November 1736 but died in January 1744; and son Simon was born at Grand-Pré in October 1743.  Joseph remarried to Anne, 20-year-old daughter of Joseph Daigre and Madeleine Gautrot of Grand-Pré, at Grand-Pré in January 1748. 

Louis dit Saint-Louis's younger son Mathurin, born in c1720, married Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, Mercure on Rivière St.-Jean, present-day New Brunswick, in June 1786, when he would have been in his late 60s.  They settled at Baie-des-Ouines, today's Bay du Vin, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in eastern New Brunswick.  Their daughter married into the Robichaud family there.  Three of their sons also married into the same family in eastern New Brunswick. 

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

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

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

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

Simon Mazerolle dit Saint-Louis, age 40, sailed to Louisiana aboard Le Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships from France, which reached New Orleans in mid-August 1785.  With him were wife Marguerite Trahan, age 38, and their four children--Marie-Perpétué, age 18; Élisabeth-Marie, age 16; Anne-Françoise, age 14; and Étienne, age 8.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Simon and Marguerite had no more children in Louisiana.  Their daughters married into the Barrilleaux, Daigre, and Hébert families and settled on the upper bayou.  Marguerite died at Louisiana in November 1786, only a year after they settled there.  Simon remarried to Luce, also called Laure, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Françoise Benoit and widow of Jean-Baptiste Hébert, at Lafourche in January 1788.  Luce also had come to Louisiana aboard La Bergère.  She gave Simon no more children.  Daughter Anne-Françoise, from Simon's first marriage, died in Assumption Parish in August 1826, in her mid-50s. 

Simon's only surviving son remained on upper Bayou Lafourche and created a center of family settlement there: 

Descendants of Étienne MAZEROLLE (c1777-1831; Louis dit Saint-Louis, Joseph dit Saint-Louis)

Étienne, son of Simon Mazerolle dit Saint-Louis and his first wife Marguerite Trahan, born probably at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in c1777, followed his family to Louisiana aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and went with them to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Étienne married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Vincent Landry and Susanne Godin, at Lafourche in February 1798.  Their daughter married into the Friou family.  Étienne died at Brulé, Assumption Parish, in July 1831, age 55.  All of the Mazerolles of South Louisiana descend from Étienne and his three married sons, who also married fellow Acadians and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.   One of Étienne's grandsons moved to the present-day Morgan City area during the late antebellum period, but his other grandson remained on the upper Lafourche. 

1

Oldest son Étienne, fils married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Julien Ozelet and his Creole wife Marguerite Billardin, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1828.  Their son Martin Sylvanie was born in Assumption Parish in March 1829.  Their daughter married into the Simoneaux family.  Étienne, fils remarried to Rosalie Aglae, called Aglae, daughter of fellow Acadians Rémi Hébert and Élisabeth Guidry and widow of Jean Pierre Berthelot, at the Plattenville church in January 1834.  Their daughter married into the Sanchez family. 

Martin married Adeline, daughter of Georges Mars and his Acadian wife Adeline Lambert, at the Attakapas Canal church, Assumption Parish, in April 1860.  Their son Émile Anatole was born near Attakapas Canal, east of Lake Verret, in January 1861.  Soon after their marriage, they moved to the Brashear, now Morgan, City area on the lower Atchafalaya River. 

2

Pierre married Élise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Benoît Gautreaux and Élisabeth Bergeron, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1830.  Their son Étienne Pierre was born in Assumption Parish in March 1831, and Valmond Valéry in March 1836.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin and Daigle families.  Pierre remarried to fellow Acadian Élisabeth Templet, place and date unrecorded.  Their daughter married into the Trahan family. 

2a

Étienne Pierre, by his father's first wife, married cousin Laurenza Lesida or Oleside, called Lesida, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Emérant Crochet and Arthémise Thibodeaux, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in August 1854.  Their son Joseph Ulgère was born near Paincourtville in June 1856.  During the War of 1861-65, E. P., as the military records call him, served in the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in South Lousiana, which fought in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana; he may have been a conscript.  He was captured at Labadieville, not far from his home, in October 1862 and was promptly paroled by the Federals.  His service record does not say if he returned to his unit. 

2b

Valmond, by his father's first wife, died near Paincourtville, Assumption Parish, in November 1859, age 23.  He did not marry. 

3

Youngest son Auguste married Adélaïde Roseline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Joseph Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marie Vincente Montet, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in January 1849.  Their son Joseph Augustin was born in Assumption Parish in March 1850. 

CONCLUSION

Mazerolles settled early in Acadia, but they came "late" to Louisiana.  In fact, if the Spanish government had not coaxed over 1,500 Acadians in France to emigrate to the colony, there probably would be no Mazerolles in the Bayou State today.  One family, that of Simon Mazerolle dit Saint-Louis of Grand-Pré, came to Louisiana in 1785 aboard one of the Seven Ships and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Most of his descendants remained in Assumption Parish, but one grandson moved to the Brashear City area, now Morgan City, during the late antebellum period. 

Church records show no non-Acadian Mazerolles coming to Louisiana during either the colonial or antebellum periods.  All of the Mazerolles of South Louisiana, then, are descendants of Louis dit Saint-Louis of Port-Royal and the Maritimes. 

No Mazerolle appears on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860.  This means that they either owned no slaves or managed to avoid having their slaves counted by federal census takers.  It also means that they participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation economy. 

According to Confederate service records, only one member of this family served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Étienne P. Mazerolle of Assumption Parish was a married man with at least two children when he either enlisted in or was conscripted into the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry probably in 1862.  He was captured at Labadieville, not far from his home, in October of that year.  The Federals promptly paroled him, and he probably returned home to his family.  ...

The family's name also is spelled Macerole, Macerolle, Madeolle, Maderole, Madrol, Maierolle, Maserol, Maserole, Maserolle, Maserose, Masserelle, Masserole, Masserolle, Mazereur, Mazerol, Mazerole, Mazerolles, Mazeronne, Mazorolle, Mazrol, Mazrolle, Menserol, Menserolle, Mierolle.  [For the family's Louisiana "begats," see Book Ten]

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 686, 1261-62, 1524-25; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:89; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 352; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 7; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15, 154, 267-68; Robichaux, Acadian in St.-Malo, 27-28, 612; White, DGFA-1, 1144-45; White, DGFA-1 English, 247; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 165.  

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, 29 (pl. 7L), calls her Anne [MIEROLLE], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 612, Family No. 706; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 12-13, calls her Anne, sa [Simon MIEROLLE's] fille, age 14, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Anne MAZEROLLE, his [Simon MAZEROLLE's] daughter, age 14, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 6th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 3 siblings; BRDR, 2:215, 528 (ASC-2, 46), her marriage record, calls her Anna Francisca MASSERELLE, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph DAIGLE & Simon MAZROLLE [her father]; BRDR, 4:399 (ASM-3, 195), her death/burial record, calls her Anne Françoise MAZEROLE, "age 54 yrs., wife of Jean D'AIGLE," & gives her parents' names.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 56.

Why wasn't she with her husband at Assumption in 1795? 

02.  Wall of Names, 29 (pl. 7L), calls her Isabelle [MIEROLLE], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 612, Family No. 706; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 12-13, calls her Isabelle, sa [Simon MIEROLLE's] fille, age 16, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Isabelle MAZEROLLE, his [Simon MAZEROLLE's] daughter, age 16, on the complete listing, says she was in the 6th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 3 siblings, &, calling her Élizabeth-Marie, says she was born in 1769 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:372, 528 (ASC-2, 41), her marriage record, calls her Isabel MASSEROLE, gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Simon MAZEROLLE [her father] & Joseph HÉBERT; BRDR, 3:592 (ASM-3, 49), perhaps her burial record, calls her Marie, "age 38 yrs.," but does not give her parents' names or mentions a husband. 

03.  Wall of Names, 29 (pl. 7L), calls him Étienne [MIEROLLE], & lists him with his parents & 3 sisters; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 12-13, calls him Étienne, son [Simon MIEROLLE's] fils, age 8, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Étienne MAZEROLLE, his [Simon MAZEROLLE's] son, age 8, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 6th Family aboard La Bergère with his parents & 3 sisters; BRDR, 2:436, 510 (ASM-2, 30), his marriage record, calls him Estevan MACEROLE, calls his wife Margarita LANDRY, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to their marriage were Simon MACEROLE [his father] & Jean DAIGLE. 

All of the MAZEROLLEs of LA descend from him and his wife Marguerite. 

04.   Wall of Names, 29 (pl. 7L), calls her Marie [MIEROLLE], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 612, Family No. 706; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 12-13, calls her Marie, sa [Simon MIEROLLE's] fille, age 18, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marie MAZEROLLE, his [Simon MAZEROLLE's] daughter, age 18, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 6th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 3 siblings; BRDR, 2:60, 510 (ASC-2, 7), her marriage record, calls her Marie-Daygle MASEROLLE, calls her husband Jacques BARGEAU, give her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Simon MASEROLLE [her father] & Joseph HÉBERT; BRDR, 3:592 (ASM-3, 49), perhaps her burial record, calls her Marie, "age 38 yrs.," but does not give her parents' names or mentions a husband. 

05.  Wall of Names, 29 (pl. 7L), calls him Simon MIEROLLE, & lists him with his first wife & 4 children; BRDR, 1a(rev.): 156 (SGA-3, 23b), his birth/baptismal record, calls him Simon MAZEROL, gives his parents'  names, & says his godparents were Joseph LEBLANC, who signed the baptismal document, & Marguerite LEBLANC; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 612, Family No. 706; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 12-13, calls him Simon MIEROLLE, cordier, age 40, on the embarkation list, Simon MASEROLE, on the debarkation list, & Simon MAZEROLLE, ropemaker, age 40, on the complete listing, says he was in the 6th Family aboard La Bergère with his first wife & 4 children, details his first marriage, including the names of his & his wife's parents, says daughter Élizabeth-Marie was born in 1769, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to him & his family after they reached LA; BRDR, 2:124, 528 (ASC-2, 12), the record of his second marriage, calls him Simon MASEROL, calls his wife La Luze BOURG, does not give his & her parents' names or the name of her first husband, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Félicité AUCOIN & Pierre AUCOIN. 

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