APPENDICES

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

NAQUIN

[NAH-can, nah-CAN]

ACADIA

Jean Naquin dit L'Étoile, a master tailor, born in France in c1662, reached Acadia during the 1690s and married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Bourg and Marguerite Martin, at Port-Royal before 1698.  In 1700, Jean purchased land from Étienne Pellerin at Bélair, on the river above Port-Royal.  Jean died there in February 1706, in his mid-40s.  He and Marguerite had five children, including two sons, both born at Port-Royal, who created families of their own.  Jean dit L'Étoile's only daughter, Marguerite, died three months after her birth.  

Older son Jacques, born in c1700, married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie Blanchard, at Annapolis Royal in c1725.  They settled at Cobeguit, but by the early 1750s they had moved on to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, probably to get free of British authority.  Jacques, now a widower, sons Jacques, fils, Joseph, and Pierre, and daughters Marguerite, Élisabeth, and Anne-Marie were living at Anse-à-Pinnet on island's south coast when a French official counted them in August 1752.  Oldest son Ambroise, his wife Élisabeth/Isabelle, daughter of Claude Bourg and Judith Guérin, and Ambroise and Isabelle's 2-year-old daughter, also were counted at Anse-à-Pinnet. 

Younger son François, born in June 1704, married Angélique, daughter of René Blanchard and Anne Landry, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1728.  François and his family followed older brother Jacques and his family to Cobeguit and then on to Île St.-Jean.  François, wife Angélique, sons Jean-Baptiste, François, fils, Charles, Joseph, and Jean, and daughters Angélique, Anne, Marianne-Anastasie, Ursule, and Tarsile, also were counted at Anse-à-Pinnet in August 1752.

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

In 1755, descendants of Jean Naquin dit L'Étoile--sons Jacques and François and their families--could be found at Anse-à-Pinnet on Île St.-Jean. 

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

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

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

Naquins, compared to other Acadians, came relatively late to Louisiana.  The Naquins from France--two families and two wives--sailed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785.  Le St.-Rémi had been the most crowded of the Seven Ships, and scurvy and smallpox took its toll of passengers both on the crossing and after the ship reached Louisiana.  The Naquins followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche:

Ambroise Naquin of Cobeguit, age 60, crossed with wife Élisabeth Bourg, age 58, and twins sons Joseph-Jacques and Pierre-Paul, age 19.  When the Spanish counted the Acadians at Valenzuela in January 1788, both Ambroise Naquin and his wife Élisabeth Bourg did not appear in the census, so they may not have survived the crossing to Louisiana, or disease may have claimed them soon after they reached the colony.  Both of their sons married at Lafourche in 1787 and settled on the upper bayou.  

Charles Naquin of Cobeguit, age 48, a widower, Ambroise's first cousin, crossed with six children--Anne-Marie, age 18; Ives (a daughter), age 16; Jean-Charles, age 14; Marguerite-Ludivine, age 10; Renée, age 8; and Paul, age 5.  Two of Charles's children also may not have survived the crossing to New Orleans or died soon after they reached the colony:  neither daughter Marguerite-Ludivine nor son Paul appear in the Valenzuela District census of 1788 with the rest of the family.  They would have been 13 and 7 at the time, so they probably died young.  Charles's daughters married into the Dugas, Dupré, and Henry families.  In 1795, Charles obtained a 400-acre grant from the Spanish along Bayou Terrebonne, a distributary of Bayou Lafourche, near present-day Houma.  Son Jean-Charles, after he married in 1800, probably joined his father there.  

Anne Naquin of Cobeguit, age 50, Charles's sister, crossed with husband Charles Dugas, age 60, a grown daughter (Anne's stepdaughter), age 22; and a 9-year-old orphan.   They remained on the upper bayou. 

Anne-Marie Naquin of Cobeguit, age 48, Ambroise's sister, crossed with husband Pierre Bourg, 56, a son; and two daughters, ages 20, 18, and 11.  Anne Marie died in Assumption Parish in September 1822, in her mid-80s.

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Twin brothers and a cousin from France created the only center of Naquin family settlement in Louisiana, in the Bayou Lafourche/Bayou Terrebonne valley: 

Descendants of Joseph-Jacques NAQUIN (1766-?; Jean dit L'Étoile, Jacques)

Joseph-Jacques, twin son of Ambroise Naquin and Élisabeth Bourg, was born at St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, France, in January 1766.  He came to Louisiana with his parents and twin brother aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785, and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsement and Marie Hébert, in April 1787.  Marie-Josèphe, also a native of St.-Suliac, had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France.  They settled on the upper bayou.  Their daughters married into the Gros and Marillon, Morillion, or Morillon families.  They had only two sons, but a substantial number of Naquins today are descended from those sons, who remained on Bayou Lafourche until after the War of 1861-65, when some of them moved south into Terrebonne Parish.  

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Older son Joseph-Ambroise, born at Lafourche in December 1790, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Basil Préjean le jeune and Rosalie de St. Julien de Lachaussée of St. James Parish, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in July 1812.  Their son Maximin Noël was born in Assumption Parish in December 1814, Joseph Paul, called Paul and Joseph, fils, in October 1816, and Pierre Ursin Valère, called Ursin, in October 1818, Basile François Xavier in Lafourche Interior Parish December 1820, Jacques in July 1825 but died 9 days later, Joachim Théophile was born in May 1829 but died at age 7 in April 1836, and Adolphe Cleopha, called Cleopha, was born in September 1835.  Their daughters married into the Ayo, Badeaux, Haydel, Préjean, and Rodrigue families.  Joseph Ambroise, surrounded by many children, grandchildren, and even a few great-grandchildren, died in Lafourche Parish in June 1860, age 69.  

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Joseph Paul married Marie Adèle, also called Adèle Noël, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Marie Boudreaux and Élise Modeste Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in August 1833.  Their son Paul Ernest or Ernest Paul, called Ernest, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1838, Maximilien Emertile, called Mertile, in July 1840, Joseph Marcillien, called Marcillien, in October 1841, Aurelien Justilien, called Justilien, in December 1844, and Paulin Eusèbe in August 1851.  Their daughters married into the Benoit, Boudreaux, Hébert, Robichaux, Sevin, and Vicknair families.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted 13 slaves-- 10 males and 3 females, all black, ranging in age from 35 to 3-- on Paul Naquin's farm next to younger brother Ursin.  Paul, called Joseph, Jr. by the clerk at the Thibodaux courthouse, died in December 1851, age 35.  

Ernest married Marie Elmire, called Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadian Duval Hébert and his Creole wife Marie Louise Chauvin, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in May 1859.  Their son Elma Oscar was born in Terrebonne Parish in December 1861, Joseph Vilfrid in Lafourche Parish in March 1866, Pierre Alcide near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1868, and Paul Arthur in December 1870.  During the War of 1861-65, Ernest enlisted in Company H of the 30th Regiment Louisiana Infantry in 1862 and deserted the regiment later in the year.  By the late 1870s, Ernest had remarried to Marie-Victoire Malbrough and moved his family from the Terrebonne marshes to upper Bayou Teche, where they settled near Cecilia in St. Martin Parish.  

Marcillien married Lesida, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Aucoin and Julie Levron, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in June 1862, only a few months after enlisting in Company H of the 30th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, from which, like his older brother Ernest, he deserted later in the year.  Their son Adrien Augustave was born in Lafourche Parish in August 1865, and Charles Eugène in February 1870.  

During the War of 1861-65, Maximilien Emertile served in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.  According to his Confederate service record, Mertile was with his company the entire time it served, from his enlistment in May 1861 at age 19 until it surrendered in Alabama four years later, a stunning contrast to the military service of his brothers Marcillien and Ernest and first cousin Émile.  Mertile married Eveline, daughter of Barthélemy Jolibois and his Acadian wife Matilde Bourg, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1866; the marriage also was recorded at the Thibodaux courthouse in Lafourche Parish.  Their son Joseph Albert was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1867. 

Justilien married Victorine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Pierre Honoré Thibodeaux and Pauline Guillot, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in March 1869; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish, so they may have settled near the boundary between Assumption and Lafourche.  

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Maximin married Azélie Basilise, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Richard and Clémence Bergeron, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November 1836.  Their son Joseph Émile, called Émile, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1837, Victor Osémé, called Osémé,  in January 1839, Maximin Mertile, called Mertile, in November 1840, Jean Baptiste in January 1843, Pierre Valsin in February 1845 but died age 13 months in March 1846, Jean Alfred, called Alfred, was born in Assumption Parish in February 1850, Anatole in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1851, Oscar Baile in Assumption Parish in May 1853, and Edgard Augustin or Augustin Edgard in June 1855 but died in Lafourche Parish in October 1857.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted 2 slaves--both males, both black, ages 24 and 18--on Maximin Naquin's farm.  Maximin died in Lafourche Parish in September 1855, age 40, three months after his youngest son was born the previous June. 

Émile married Azema, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Maxil Boudreaux and his Creole wife Marie Phelonise Vayse, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1857; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish.  Their son Adrien Paulinaire had been born in Lafourche Parish in August 1853, when Émile was 16, Joseph Clet in September 1858, and Henri in February 1867.  During the War of 1861-65, Émile enlisted in Company H of the 30th Regiment Louisiana Infantry in 1862 and deserted the regiment later in the year.  

Maximin Mertile served in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.  In the spring of 1861, at age 19, Mertile died of disease at Mississippi City near Biloxi only a few months after his enlistment.  Father Charles Menard of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Thibodaux, in a letter to the archbishop of New Orleans, claimed that 2,000 people attended the young soldier's funeral on 7 October 1861.  

Osémé married cousin Amelia, daughter of Marcellus Naquin and Marie Guillot, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1866.  Their son Joseph Luc was born in Lafourche Parish in September 1868.  

Alfred married Olinda, daughter of Marcel Falgout and his Acadian wife Céleste Roger, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1870.  

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Basile François married Marie Bonne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Paul Bourg and his Creole wife Marie Adeline Himel, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1843.  Their son Léandre Floreville was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1844 but died age 2 1/2 years in March 1846, and François Xavier was born in Lafourche Interior in January 1851.  Their daughter married into the Lagarde family.  Basile, at age 41, remarried to Émilie, daughter of Gabriel Dionne and Archange Pary of St.-Pierre-les-Becquets, Canada, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1861; the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish.  Their son Oscar Beauregard was born in Assumption Parish in March 1862, while Basile was serving in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia.  Basile fought in the Battle of Labadieville in October 1862 and fell into hands of the invading Federals, who paroled him and sent him home.  After the war, Basile moved west from the Lafourche valley to lower Bayou Teche.  He and his family were living near New Iberia in the early 1870s.  

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Ursin married Marie Adèle, called Adèle, another daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Paul Bourg and Marie Adeline Himel, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1844.  They settled on the bayou near the boundary between Lafourche Interior and Assumption parishes.  Their son Pierre Melville was born in February 1845, Joseph Oscar in November 1846 but died age 11 in September 1857, Louis Philippe was born in May 1856, Jean Arthur in September 1858, Xavier James in December 1863, and Henri Edgard in October 1869.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted 2 slaves--both females, both black, ages 34 and 4--on Ursin Naquin's farm next to older brother Joseph Paul.  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted 5 slaves--1 male and 4 females, all mulattoes, ranging in age from 35 to 2--on Ursin Naquin's farm in the parish's 6th Ward.  

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Cléopha married Marie Eugénie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Landry and Anne Rosalie Boudreaux, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1856; the marriage was recorded also in Lafourche Parish.  Their son Adolphe Dionis was born in Assumption Parish in January 1858.  

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Younger son Ambroise le jeune, born at Assumption in November 1797, married Marguerite Carmélite, called Carmélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Marie Boudreaux and Élisabeth Pitre, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1825.  Their son Joseph Paul, called Paul, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1826, Ambroise, fils in September 1829, Jean Baptiste in July 1831 but died a month later, Ambroise Eugène, called Eugène, was born in November 1835, Joseph Andresi or Audressi, in April 1837, and Théophile Orestile Omère in September 1839 but died age 2 1/2 in February 1842.  They also had a son named Lovinci.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Juneau, and Préjean families.  Ambroise, le jeune died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1840, age 42.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted a single slave--a 45-year-old black female--on Widow Ambroise Naquin's farm; this was Carmelite Boudreaux.  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted a single slave--a 50-year-old mulatto female-- on the Widow Ambroise Naquin's farm in the parish's 6th Ward.  

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Paul married Émilie, daughter of Narcisse Fremin and his Acadian wife Farlie Gautreaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1848.  Their son Louis Zephir was born in Assumption Parish in August 1853 but died at age 12 in August 1864, Ernest Lucien was born in July 1855, Clet Léon in November 1859, and Paul, fils in June 1867.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted 5 slaves--all blacks, 3 males and 3 females, ranging in age from 40 to 10--on Joseph Naquin's farm; this was probably Paul.  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted 8 slaves--5 males and 3 females, 7 blacks and 1 mulatto, ages 36 to 1--on Joseph Naquin's farm in the parish's 6th Ward; this was probably Paul.

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Lovinci married Anaïs Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Valéry Prejean and Marie Josèphe LeBlanc, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in September 1854.  Their son Aurelien Toussaint was born in Assumption Parish in November 1855, Lovinci Théophile in October 1857, Henry Clé, perhaps Clay, in April 1862, Julien Léonie in February 1865, Nicolas Osémé in December 1867, and Joseph Numa in June 1870.  

2c

Joseph Andresi married Angèle, daughter of Valsin Vaise or Vice and Caroline Juneau of Lafourche Parish, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1859; the marriage also was recorded in Lafourche Parish.  Their son Joseph Valsin was born in Assumption Parish in February 1860, Mertile Ambroise in December 1867, and Anatole Dorvillier in February 1870.  

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During the War of 1861-65, Eugène served in Company D of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Élie Gautreaux and Agathe Aucoin, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in November 1865.  Their son Émile Eugène was born in Assumption Parish in October 1866, and Louis Théophile in January 1869.  

Descendants of Pierre-Paul NAQUIN (1766-1851; Jean dit L'Étoile, Jacques)

Pierre-Paul, twin son of Ambroise Naquin and Élisabeth Bourg, was born at St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, France, in January 1766.  He came to Louisiana with his parents and twin brother aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785, and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne-Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Robichaux and Anne Hébert, in July 1787.  Anne-Théotiste also had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi.  Their daughters married into the Ayo, Boudreaux, Oncale, and Trosclair families.  Pierre-Paul and Anne-Théotiste had seven sons, but not all of them created families of their own.  Those who did remained in the Bayou Lafourche valley.  Pierre Paul died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1851, age 84, a widower and one of the last Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors. 

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Oldest son Joseph-Pierre or Pierre-Joseph, born at Lafourche in April 1787[sic, probably 1789] and baptized at Ascension in April 1790, married Anne Constance, called Constance, daughter of Frenchman Jean Pierre Lirette and his Acadian wife Marie Madeleine Darembourg, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in October 1809.  Their son Drosin was born in Assumption Parish in April 1818.  They also had a son named Paul Joseph, called Joseph.  Their daughters married into the Landry, Levron, and Navarre families.  In September 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted 2 slaves--a 10-year-old mulatto female and a 13-year-old black female--on Mrs. Pierre J. Naquin's farm in the parish's 6th Ward; this was Pierre Joseph's widow, Constance Lirette.  Pierre Joseph died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1849; the Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph Pierre, as he called him, died "at age 60 yrs."

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Drosin married Amelise, Armelise, or Arthémise, daughter of Jean Baptiste Gros or Grosjean and Marie George, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in September 1838.  Their son Osémé was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1840, and Léony Désiré, called Désiré, in December 1845 but died at age 16 in August 1862.  Their daughters married into the Ayo, Doiron, and Fayt family.  Drosin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1851, age 33.  

Osémé married Célestine, daughter of Martin Fayt and his Acadian wife Théotice Boudreaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in January 1861.  

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Paul Joseph married Adèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Noël Victor Boudreaux and Rosalie LeBlanc and widow of Louis Rodrigue, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1840, and sanctified the marriage at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, the following September. 

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Jean-François, born at Lafourche in December 1790, probably did not marry.  

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Pierre-Paul, fils, called Paul, baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in October 1796, married Marguerite Céleste, called Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians François Basile Dugas and Marie Clément at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1818.  Their son Auguste Zénon or Zénon Augustin, was born in Assumption Parish in March 1819, Marcel, Marcellin or Marcellus Séverin in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1821, Jean Éloi, called Éloi, in August 1823, Ulgère Devinsy in November 1830, and Elis Cléopha, called Cléopha, in February 1833.  Their daughter married into the Sevin family.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Lafourche Interior Parish counted 16 slaves--6 males and 10 females, all black, ranging in age from 26 to 1--on Pierre Naquin, Jr.'s farm.  The same census taker counted 4 more slaves--2 males and 2 females, all black, ages 5, 4, 3 and 2--on another farm owned by Pierre Naquin, Jr.  Pierre Paul, fils died in Lafourche Parish in January 1856, age 60.  

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Auguste Zénon married Victoire Joséphine, daughter of Auguste Pichoff and his Acadian wife his Acadian wife Rosalie Clémence Hébert, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in December 1840.  Their son Joseph Zénon was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1841, Zénon Augustin, fils in August 1844, Jean Baptiste Lovinci in November 1846 but died age 1 in November 1847, Pierre Augustin was born in April 1857, Laurent Augustave in April 1859, Justin Paulin or Paulin Augustin in March 1850 but died the following August, Justilien N. was born in November 1853, Joseph in February 1856 but died the following day, and Michel Octave was born in April 1859.  Their daughter married into the Keller family.  During the War of 1861-65, Auguste Zénon served in Company F of the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia while he was in his 40s.  He was captured during or after the Battle of Labadieville in late October 1862, paroled, and sent home.  

Zénon married Amelina, daughter of Célestin Adam and Adèle Delatte, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in January 1867.  

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Marcellus married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Guillot and Irène Lejeune, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1844.  Their son Louis Arsène, called Arsène, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1845, and Joseph Paulin in April 1851.  Their daughter married a Naquin cousin.  Marcellus died in a yellow fever epidemic in Lafourche Parish in November 1853, age 32.  

Arsène married Ophelia, daughter of Evariste Morvant and Delphine Adam, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in February 1867.  Their son Joseph Mertile was born in Lafourche Parish in December 1867, Joseph Arthur in July 1869, and Joseph Robert in November 1870.  

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Jean Éloi died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1849, age 24.  He probably did not marry.  

3d

Elis Cléopha married Marie or Mary, daughter of Valery Oncale and Azélie Tregle, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in July 1856.  Their son Joseph Hermogène, called Hermogène, was born in Lafourche Parish in September 1859 but died at age 10 months in June 1860, and Prosper Cleopha was born in September 1868.  

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Ulgère married Azélie, another daughter of Valery Oncale and Azélie Tregle, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in April 1858.  Their son Émile Paulin Ulgère was born in Lafourche Parish in March 1860, and Joseph Émile in January 1865.  During the War of 1861-65, Ulgère served in the Lafourche Parish Regiment of Militia.  He was captured during or after the Battle of Labadieville in nearby Assumption Parish in late October 1862, was paroled, and sent home.  

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Jean-Alexis, born at Assumption in October 1799, probably did not marry.

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Jean Adrien, called Adrien, born at Assumption in August 1804, moved down into Lafourche Interior Parish, where he married cousin Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pierre Dugas and Armande Naquin, at the Thibodauxville church in April 1826.  Their son Jean was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1828 but died within an hour of his birth.   Their daughter married into the Guidry and Larrieux families, so the blood of this family line survived.  

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Jean Basile, called Basile, born at Assumption in February 1807, followed his older brothers to Lafourche Interior Parish, where he married Théotiste Adèle, called Adèle, 17-year-old daughter of Mathurin Julien Ayo and Anne Rosalie Bourg, at the Thibodauxville church in July 1832.  Their son Maurile Cléopha was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1835, Maximin Schuyler in September 1837, Jean Telesphore in May 1840, Telesphore Aurestile in May 1846, and Laurent Taylor in Assumption Parish in August 1856.  They also had a son named Joseph.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Benoit, and Richard families.  

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Maurile Cléopha married Marie Zéolide, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Julien Thibodeaux and his Creole wife Marie Françoise Jolibois, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in July 1856.  Their son Ernest Léodie was born in Lafourche Parish in September 1857.  

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Joseph married Evelina, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Bergeron and Rosalie Thibodeaux, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in October 1861.  Their son Joseph Mertile was born near Chacahoula, Terrebonne Parish, in November 1867.  

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Maximin married Amelia or Melia, daughter of Eugène Toups and Joséphine Domingue, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in December 1869.  

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Youngest son Ambroise Arsène, called Arsène, born in Assumption Parish in July 1812, also moved to Lafourche Interior Parish, where he married Louise Bathilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis André Talbot and Rosalie Dugas, in May 1836.  Their son Pierre Émile, called Émile, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1837, Jean Valéry in February 1841, Ernest Tuvilier in September 1842, Clovis Arsène in June 1844, Arthur Théophile in February 1846, Joseph in September 1848 but died a day after his birth, Edgard Alfred was baptized at the Thibodaux church, age unrecorded, in May 1850, Léo Félix was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1852, Michel in March 1854, Luma G. in August 1856, and Joseph Davis in Assumption Parish in October 1861.  Their daughter married into the Molaison family.  In August 1860, the federal census taker in Lafourche Parish counted 3 slaves--all females, all blacks, ages 29, 9, and 2--on Arsène Naquin's farm in the parish's 1st Ward.  

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Émile married Marie, daughter of Jean Gonzales and Pauline Martinez of Lafourche Parish, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1860.  Their son Arsène Zenot was born in Assumption Parish in December 1860.  

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Ernest married Elvire, daughter of Pierre Lasseigne and Anne Marie Vicknair and widow of F. Pottet, at the Thibodaux church, Lafourche Parish, in August 1865.  Their twin sons Jean Clet and Jean Clovis were born in Lafourche Parish in August 1866.  

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Arthur Théophile married Félicia, daughter of Adrien Berthelot and Azélia Rousseau, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1870. 

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Clovis Arsène married Mirtillia, daughter of Louis Folse and his Acadian wife Mathilde Bourg, at the Labadieville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1870. 

Descendants of Jean-Charles NAQUIN (1771-?; Jean dit L'Étoile, François)

Jean-Charles, called Charles, fils, elder son of Charles Naquin and Anne Doiron, born probably at St.-Suliac, France, near St.-Malo, in September 1771, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785, and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Jean LeBoeuf and Marie-Renée Matherne of St.-Charles des Allemands, in December 1800.  Their daughters married into the Authement, Bourg, and Pitre families.  Jean-Charles and Madeleine had five sons, most of whom fathered sons of their own.  This line of the Naquin family did not remain on Bayou Lafourche but moved down to Bayou Terrebonne, a distributary of Bayou Lafourche, at the northern edge of the vast coastal marshes that stretched south to the Gulf of Mexico.  Jean-Charles's father had acquired land along Bayou Terrebonne in the late 1790s, so this was likely a motivation to relocate the family there.  Jean Charles, père died by March 1825, when he was recorded as deceased in his son Jean Charles, fils's marriage record. 

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Oldest son Jean-Charles, fils, born at Assumption in December 1801, moved to Lafourche Interior Parish by March 1825, when he married Marie Émelie, called Émelie, Émelite, and Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre-Louis Chiasson and his Creole wife Marguerite LeBoeuf of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church.  Their son Jean Marie Narcisse, called Narcisse, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1827, Michel Leufroi, called Leufroi, in January 1830, and Drosin Charles, called Charles, in August 1833.  Their daughters married into the Dupré, Levron, and LeBoeuf families.  Jean Charles, fils, at age 52, remarried to Rosalie Marianne, daughter of William Comstock and widow of Ursin Aucoin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in February 1854.  Their son Célestin Wallis was born in Terrebonne Parish in November 1854.  Jean Charles, fils died in Terrebonne Parish in April 1858, age 57.  One wonders if the community of Île Jean Charles, south of Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, was named after him or his father.  

1a

Leufroi, by his father's first wife, married Aimée Marguerite, daughter of Jules Butler and Elizabeth Callahan, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1860.  Their son Jean Séraphin Ernest had been born in Terrebonne Parish in June 1859, and Eugène Adam was born near Montegut in February 1866.  By the early 1880s, Leufroi had moved his family from Terrebonne Parish all the way up to the Ville Platte area of St. Landry, now Evangeline, Parish.  

1b

Narcisse, by his father's first wife, married Marguerite Rose or Rose Marguerite, also called Rosalie, daughter of perhaps French Creole Jean Baptiste Verdin, probably in Terrebonne Parish in the early 1860s.  Their son Bernard was born near Montegut in October 1864, Antoine Clément in November 1866, and Jean Victor in May 1869.  

1c

During the War of 1861-65, Charles, by his father's first wife, served in Company K of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in Terrebonne Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  While still a part of his regiment, Charles married cousin Adeline, daughter of Alexis LeBoeuf and his Acadian wife Lisa Theriot, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in February 1865.  Their son Drosin Marcel was born near Montegut in March 1866.  

2

Jean Marie, born at Assumption in July 1804, married French Creole Pauline Verdin or Verdun, probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in the late 1820s.  Their son Joseph was born probably in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1836.  They also had a son named Marcellin or Marcellus Désiré.  Their daughter married into the Verret family (her husband was described by the recording priest as a free man of color).  Daughter Méranthe Arthémise, called Arthémise, born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1831, bore a son named Jean Marie Adam in Terrebonne Parish in May 1863; the priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not name the father.  

2a

Marcellin Désiré married Marie Amelise, daughter of Charles Dardar and Marie Domiiltilde Billeaud, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in August 1856, sanctified their marriage at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1865.  Their son Marcellin Désiré, fils was born in Terrebonne Parish in June 1858, Clovis Jean in February 1860, Ernest near Montegut in September 1864, and Joseph Adolphe in February 1868. 

2b

Joseph, called a free man of color by the courthouse clerk in Houma, married cousin Joséphine Armelise, called Armelise, daughter of Alexandre Billiot and Marguerite Félicité Verdin, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in October 1860; the parish clerk called her a free woman of color; they sanctified the marriage at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1865.  Their son Désiré was born near Montegut in May 1865, Cyprien Lovincy in September 1867, and Joseph in January 1870. 

3

Hippolyte, born in Assumption Parish in May 1808, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Martin LeBlanc and Céleste Pitre, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1826; the marriage also was recorded in Terrebonne Parish.  Their son Joseph Hilaire was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1827, Michel in January 1831, Jean Maximin or Maximin Jean in July 1834, Hippolyte Félicien, called Félicien, in November 1837, and Jean Marie Onésime, called Onésime, in December 1842.  Their daughters married into the Pelegrin, Pontiff, and Theriot families.  In the 1840s, Hippolyte followed his brothers to Terrebonne Parish, where he remarried to Jeanne Adeline, called Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadians François Trahan and Joséphine Thibodeaux and widow of Hubert Usé, in a civil ceremony in June 1849, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church in May 1851.  Their son André Neuville, called Neuville, was born in Terrebonne Parish in 1852, and Félicien Hippolyte in May 1854.  

3a

Maximin Jean, by his father's first wife, married Elvire Émeline, called Émeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Charles Thériot and his Creole wife Dorcaste or Porcasse Schweitzer, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1853, and sanctified the marriage at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in March 1857.  Their son Maxy Alfred was born in Terrebonne Parish in January 1856, Ulysse Gerasine in April 1857, Wales Ernest in March 1859, Louis in Lafourche Parish in June 1861, and Joseph Martial in Terrebonne Parish in August 1864.  

3b

Michel, by his father's first wife, married Mélite, daughter of fellow Acadians Maxillière Hébert and Odille Babin, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1860.  Their son Eugène F. was born in Terrebonne Parish in April 1864, and François Angeno in January 1867.  

3c

Onésime, by his father's first wife, married Anastasie, daughter of Louis Dubois and his Acadian wife Adèle Guidry, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in December 1861.  Their son Adam Terence was born in Terrebonne Parish in April 1864, and Aubin Célestin near Montegut in April 1867.  

3d

Joseph Hilaire, by his father's first wife, married Héloise, daughter of Solomon Verret and Eulalie Verdin, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1864.  Their son Joseph was born in Terrebonne Parish in January 1868.  

3e

Félicien Hippolyte, by his father's first wife, married Mathilde, daughter of Joseph LeBoeuf and Elmire Dupré, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1865.  

3f

Neuville, by his father's second wife, married Mélanie, daughter of Louis Soudelier or Sourdelier and his Acadian wife Élodie Foret, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1870.  

4

François, born on Bayou Terrebonne probably in the 1810s, married Eulalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Bourg and his Creole wife Rosalie Eléonore Lirette of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1836.  Their son Joseph Marcelier was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1839, Sylvain Simon in February 1846, Édouard in Terrebonne Parish in December 1850, Amédée Neuville in January 1853, Paul James in May 1859, and François Ezear in March 1862.  They also had a son named Émile.  Their daughters married into the Dardeau, Dugas, Usé, and Vidrine families; one of them settled at Ville Platte, then in St. Landry but now in Evangeline Parish.  

Émile married Émilie, daughter of Augustin Dupré and Adeline LeBoeuf, at the Montegut church, Terrebonne Parish, in October 1867.  

5

Youngest son Hyacinthe, born on Bayou Terrebonne probably in the 1820s, married Adèle Ursule, another daughter of Jean Bourg and Rosalie Eléonore Lirette of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in July 1845.  He does not seem to have fathered any sons.

Paul NAQUIN (1780-? ; Jean dit L'Étoile, François)

Paul, younger son of Charles Naquin and Anne Doiron, born at Archigny, Poitou, France, in May 1780 during exile, came to Louisiana with his parents and siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785, and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He was not counted with them at Valenzuela in January 1788, when he would have been age 7, so he probably died young.  One wonders if he even survived the crossing from France, or if he died perhaps of smallpox at New Orleans soon after the family reached Louisiana. 

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Other NAQUINs in the Lafourche Valley

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

Pierre Naquin married Marie Louise ____, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Aimée Malvina was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1841. 

Marie Anne Naquin, wife of Variste Legrand, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1850, age 43.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded her burial did not give her parents' names. 

Marie Olimpe Naquin died "during [a] yellow fever epidemic" in Lafourche Parish in September 1853, age 10.  The Thibodaux priest who recorded the burial did not give the girl's parents' names.  

Marcelin Naquin married Joséphine Courteaux, place and date unrecorded.  Daughter Marie Magdeleine was born in Terrebonne Parish in March 1855. 

Thomas Naquin married Angella Célestin in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in May 1868.  The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not give the couple's parents' names.  Was Thomas an Acadian? 

Eulalie Naquin died near Montegut, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1870.  The Montegut priest who recorded the burial gave no parents' names, did not mention a husband, nor did he give her age at the time of her passing.  She likely was the 28-year-old daughter of Jean Adrien Naquin of Lafourche Parish and was married to Jean Larieux, her second husband, at the time of her death. 

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

Patrick Naquin, "from Ireland, a Catholic," died at Opelousas in July 1793, age unrecorded.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Patrick's parents' names or mention a wife.  One wonders if he was kin to the Acadian Naquins of the Bayou Lafourche valley, or if his actual surname only sounded like the Acadian name. 

CONCLUSION

Naquins settled fairly 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 Naquins in the Bayou State today, at least none with Acadian ancestry.  Like many families from the Maritime region, they suffered terribly in the deportation to France during the late 1750s.  The years in France also took their toll on the family's spirit.  Death continued to plague them on the voyage to New Orleans in 1785, but enough of them survived to secure a place for this family in the development of what became southeastern Louisiana.  During the early antebellum period, one looks in vain for Naquins along the Mississippi River or on the western prairies.  Most of them remained along bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne, where their Acadian immigrant ancestors had settled in 1786.  Others moved farther south to the edge of the Terrebonne marshes, especially around the communities of Montegut (pronounced MON-tee-gyoo) and Pointe-aux-Chênes and along Bayou Petit Caillou, where they farmed, fished, and trapped.  Some of them moved west from the Lafourche valley to Chacahoula, east of Bayou Black.  

Church records reveal only one non-Acadian Naquin, an Irishman, living in South Louisiana during the late colonial period, but there is no evidence that he created a family of his own.  No non-Acadian Naquin families emerge in the Bayou State during the antebellum period.  Most, if not all, of the Naquins of South Louisiana, then, are descendants of master tailor Jean dit L'Étoille of haute-rivière, Port-Royal, Acadia. 

During the late antebellum period, a number of Naquins owned slaves.  Pierre Paul, fils of Lafourche Parish held 20 slaves in 1850, which qualified him as a planter.  That same year, cousin Paul Naquin held 13 slaves on his Bayou Lafourche farm.  But most of their Naquin relations, especially those in slave-rich Terrebonne Parish, owned no slaves at all, at least none who appeared on the federal slave schedules of 1850 and 1860.  Most members of the family, then, participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation economy.  

Dozens of Naquins served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65.  Most of them served honorably and returned to their loved ones after the Southern Confederacy fell in 1865.  At least one member of the family died in Confederate service.  Maximin Mertile, son of Maximin Naquin, enlisted in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry in May 1861 at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish.  That summer, the 4th Louisiana Infantry was sent to the Mississippi coast, where its companies were stationed at Pascagoula, Biloxi, Pass Christian, Ship Island, and Mississippi City.  Maximin Mertile fell ill and died in a hospital at Mississippi City probably in September 1861, age 19.  Father Charles Menard of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Thibodaux, in a letter to the archbishop of New Orleans, claimed that 2,000 people attended the young soldier's funeral on 7 October 1861.  

During the war, especially in the summer and fall of 1862, successive Federal incursions devastated the Lafourche and Terrebonne valleys.  Confederate foragers also plagued the area when Union forces were not around.  After the war, Naquins remained on their simple homesteads along the bayous and marshes of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.  Those who had owned slaves did the best they could in a free-labor postwar economy.  A few moved west to lower Bayou Teche, especially to the New Iberia area, and, by the 1880s, some of them had moved as far upstream as Cecilia and Arnaudville in upper St. Martin Parish.  One family of Naquins could be found near Ville Platte, in present-day Evangeline Parish, far out on the prairie west of Opelousas.  And when the material economy of the twentieth century began to transform the lives of Louisiana's Cajuns, there was the lure of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and even Houston, Texas.  But the great majority of the descendants of Ambroise and Charles Naquin remained in the Lafourche and Terrebonne valleys, where, especially in the cities of Thibodaux and Houma, they can be found in large numbers today.  

The family's name also is spelled Nakin, Nanquien, Naquien, Naquine.  [For the Acadian family's Louisiana "begats," see Book Ten]

Sources:   1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafourche Parish; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafourche Parish; Arsenault, Généalogie, 702-03, 1506-07, 2564; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:123-24; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 337, 573-74; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 6, 11; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 50, 100, 149, 150, 187; Richey, Tirailleurs, 22, 271; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 27, 80-81, 132; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 32-33, 138; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 634-39; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 113-14, 183; White, DGFA-1, 1247-48; White, DGFA-1 English, 265.

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, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, & lists him with his wife & 2 sons; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1507, his profile in the Cobequid section, calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, says he was born in 1725 but gives no birthplace, says his parents were François NAQUIN & Angélique BLANCHARD, that wife Élisabeth BOURG was sans doute la fille de Claude BOURG & Judith GUÉRIN, that they married c1750 but gives no place of marriage, & lists only 1 child for them, daughter Élisabeth, born in 1751, but gives no birthplace; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 6, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, he, his wife, age 33, & 2 of their children, daughter Élisabeth, age 7, & son Jean-Baptiste, age 5, survived the crossing, but 2 of their children, son Pierre, age 4, & daughter Marguerite, age 2, died at sea, & daughter Madeleine, born 4 Apr 1759, less than a month after they reached France, died age 1 mo. on 4 May 1759, probably at St.-Malo; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 634-35, Family No. 734, calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, says he was born c1725 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, says his wife Élizabeth BOURG was born c1728 but gives no birthplace nor her parents' names, says they married c1749 but gives no place of marriage, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Élizabeth, born c1750 but gives no birthplace, died 16 Aug 1771, age 21, & buried 17 Aug 1771, St.-Suliac, son Jean-Baptiste, born c1753 but gives no birthplace, died 10 Jun 1766, age 13, buried 11 Jun 1766, St.-Suliac, son Pierre, born c1755 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, 1758-59, daughter Marguerite, born c1757 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, 1758-59, daughter Madeleine-Françoise, born 4 Apr 1759, baptized 5 Apr 1759, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Pierre BOURG, her uncle, & Françoise LE POITRE, died 4 May 1759, age 1 mo., St.-Servan, daughter Marguerite-Suline, born & baptized 13 Oct 1760, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Joseph MINIAC & Marguerite-Josèphe HÉBERT, died 18 Dec 1761, buried 19 Dec 1761, St.-Suliac, son Ambroise-François, born 24 May 1763, baptized 25 May 1763, St.-Suliac, godson of Pierre BOURG & Élizabeth NAQUIN, died 14 Mar 1774, age about 11, Pont Hougart, buried 15 Mar 1774, Pleudihen, son Joseph-Jacques, a twin, born & baptized 21 Jan 1766, St.-Suliac, godson of Jean-Baptiste NAQUIN & Tarsille NAQUIN, son Pierre-Paul, a twin, born & baptized 21 Jan 1766, St.-Suliac, godson of Paul LANDRY & Marie-Madeleine BOURG, & daughter Madeleine-Hélène, born & baptized 19 Oct 1768, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Alain BOURG & Anne DOIRON, says he, his wife, & daughter Élizabeth were at Ance-à-PINNET, Île St.-Jean, in 1752, that he, his wife, son Jean-Baptiste, & daughter Élizabeth disembarked at St.-Malo 9 Mar 1759 from du Supply, & that the family lived at St.-Suliac from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 138, Family No. 251, calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, says he was born in 1725 but gives no birthplace, that his parents were Jacques NAQUIN & Jeanne MELANSON, that wife Élizabeth BOURG was born c1726 but gives no birthplace nor her parents' names, says they married c1749 but gives no place of marriage, includes the death/burial record of daughter Madeleine-Hélène, died age 8 & buried 4 Aug 1776, St.-Jacques, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, laboureur, age 60, on the embarkation list, & Ambroise NAQUIN, plowman, age 60, on the complete listing, says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his wife & 2 sons, details his marriage, says his parents were Jacques NAQUIN & Jeanne MELANÇON but does not give her parents' names, says they married c1749 but gives no place of marriage, & that twin sons Joseph & Pierre were born in 1766 but gives no birthplace.  See also De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:123.  

Arsenault, 1506-07, says Ambroise was a son of François NAQUIN.  Robichaux, who says in Acadians in Nantes that he was a son of François's older brother Jacques, is followed here. 

Why were he & his wife not in the Valenzuéla census of 1788?  Did they even survive the crossing from France?  Unfortunately, the debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi did not survive.  He & his wife may have been victims of the smallpox that plagued the passengers of Le St.-Rémi soon after it reached the colony.  See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 64.

02.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Anne NAQUIN, & lists her with her husband, a daughter, & a female minor; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 100, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, she, with her husband Francois GAUTROT, age 34, survived the crossing, but all 4 of their children--sons Jean-Baptiste, age 12, & Francois-Xavier, age 4, & daughters Marie-Rose, age 6, & Catherine, age 2--died at sea; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 342, Family No. 415, calls her Anne NAQUIN, says she was born c1735 but gives no birthplace, calls her first husband Francoise GAUTROT, says he was born c1725 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, says he died 23 Apr 1763 "in England"[sic], includes birth/baptismal & death/burial data on son Jean-Baptiste GAUTROT, born c1746 "possibly of a previous wife" but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, 1758-59, daughter Marie-Rose GAUTROT, born c1752 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, son François-Xavier GAUTROT, born c1754 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, daughter Catherine GAUTROT, born c1756 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, daughter Marie-Anne GAUTROT, born & baptized 15 Feb 1761, Plouër, goddaughter of Charles NAQUIN (maternal uncle) & Marie PITRE, & daughter Rose-Marie GAUTROT, born 5 Dec 1762, baptized 6 Dec 1762, Plouër, goddaughter of Nobleman Joseph BOURDE, Sr. de Champs, & Marie LEBLANC, says he & her husband disembarked at St.-Malo on 23 Jan 1759 from one of the Five Ships, & lists the family's residences in the St.-Malo area, 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 290, Family No. 357, calls her Anne NAQUIN, says she was born c1735 but gives no birthplace, gives her first husband's name, details her second marriage, including the names of her second husband's father & first wife, & says she & her second husband resided at St.-Melior from 1766-72; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Anne NAQUIN, sa [Charles DUGAT's] feme, age 50, on the embarkation list, Anne NAQUIN, his [Charles DUGAT's] wife, age 50, on the complete listing, says she was in the 31st Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband, a daughter, & a female minor.  See also De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:124.  

The family just above hers on the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi is that of her brother Charles.  

03.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Anne [NAQUIN], & lists her with her widowed father & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Anne, sa [Charles NAQUIN's] fille, age 18, on the embarkation list, & Anne NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] daughter, age 18, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:377, 562 (ASM-2, 85), her marriage record, calls her Ana NAQUIN of St.-Malo, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph BOUDRAUX & Ambroise HÉBERT.  

Why did she wait so long to marry?

04.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Marie NAQUIN, & lists her with her husband & 3 children; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 638-39, Family No. 737, calls her Anne-Marie NAQUIN, says she was born c1738 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents'  names, says her father was born c1700 but gives no birthplace, says he was a ploughman & "died during the disembarkation from one of the 'Five ships' in 1759, that her mother was born c1706 but gives no birthplace, that her mother was daughter of Pierre MELANSON but does not give her mother's mother's name, details her family's residence on Île St.-Jean in 1752, as well as her deportation to St.-Malo in 1758-59; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 150, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, her father, called Jean-Baptiste on the passsenger list, age 63 & a widower, died as soon as he disembarked from the ship, & brother Pierre, age 18, died in the hospital at St.-Malo 8 Mar 1759, a month & a half after they reached France, so she was the only one to survive the crossing; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 157-58, Family No. 184, calls her Anne-Marie NAQUIN, says she was born c1743 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details his marriage, including her husband's parents' names, & includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Marie-Suline BOURG, born 18 Sep 1763 & baptized 19 Sep 1763, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Alain BOURG & Élizabeth NAQUIN, died age 10 of smallpox & buried 18 May 1773, St.-Suliac, daughter Jeanne-Madeleine-Françoise BOURG, born & baptized 24 Jun 1765, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Paul LANDRY & Tergide NAQUIN, son Pierre-Olivier BOURG, born 15 Apr 1767 & baptized 16 Apr 1767, St.-Suliac, godson of Ambroise NAQUIN (paternal uncle) & Marie-Madeleine BOURG, daughter Marguerite-Victoire BOURG, born & baptized 24 Dec 1768, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Jean-Pierre GUÉRIN & Anne DOIRON, daughter Anne-Pérrine BOURG, born & baptized 17 Jan 1771, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Jérôme GUÉRIN & Marie PITRE, died 26 Jan 1771, age 10 days, & buried 27 Jan 1771, St.-Suliac, & son Ambroise-David BOURG, born & baptized 4 Feb 1772, St.-Suliac, godson of Ambroise PITRE & Sulienne BOURG; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 32-33, Family No. 60, calls her Anne-Marie NAQUIN, says she was born c1733 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including her husband's parents'  names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Ambroise-David BOURG, died age 4 & buried 8 May 1776, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, daughter Marie-Madeleine BOURG, baptized 13 Apr 1779, died age 3 1/2 & buried 14 Jun 1782, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, son Jean-Marie BOURG, baptized 2 Sep 1781, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, died age 28 mos. & buried 4 Jan 1784, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, & daughter Marguerite BOURG, died age 16 & buried 2 Oct 1784, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Marie NAQUIN, sa [Pierre BOURG's] feme, age 46, on the embarkation list, & Marie NAQUIN, his [Pierre BOURG's] wife, age 46, on the complete listing, says she was in the 25th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 3 children, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, but gives no place of marriage, & says daughter Jeanne BOURG was born in 1765 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 4:426 (ASM-3, 153), her death/burial record, calls her Marie NAQUIN, "age 86 yrs.," but does not give her parents' or husband's name.  See also De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:124; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 25, 68, 109, 111, 156; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 493.

Why was her age so understated on the passenger list of one of the Five Ships of 1758-59?  Her estimated birth year is calculated from other sources, especially the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi & the LA censuses in which she is found.  

Where did the Spanish census taker on Bayou Lafourche in 1798 get RACIO?  Is this a misprint?  

05.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Charles NAQUIN, & lists him without a wife & 6 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 149, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, both his parents, ages 54, & 53, & 5 of his 6 siblings perished in the ordeal--unmarried brother François, fils, age 26, died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo 30 Jan 1759, a week after they reached the port city, sisters Marie-Anastasie, age 17, & Ursule, age 14, also died in hospital, 9 Apr & 31 Jan respectively, while sisters Marie-Anne, age 8, & Marguerite, age 6, died at sea, that only sister Tersile, age 10, survived the crossing with him; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 636, Family No. 735, calls him Charles NAQUIN, says he was born c1738 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, calls his wife Anne DOIRON, says she was born c1744 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, includes birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Anne-Marie, born & baptized 9 Sep 1766, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Pierre DOIRON & Tarsille NAQUIN, daughter Jeanne-Marguerite, born 5 Apr 1768 & baptized 6 Apr 1768, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Jacche DOIRON & Anne NAQUIN, died age 6 1/2 mos., 22 Oct 1768, buried same day at St.-Suliac, daughter Yves, born 15 Sep 1769, no birthplace given, son Jean-Charles, born 28 Sep 1771, no birthplace given, & son Joseph-Suliac, born 18 Jun 1773, baptized 19 Jun 1773, St.-Suliac, godson of Nobleman Joseph Thomas ST. DE LA CHABOSSIERE & Marie GAUTROT, died age 15 days, 3 Jul 1773 & buried 4 Jul 1773, St.-Suliac, says he & his parents disembarked at St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759 from one of the "Five Ships," & that his family resided at Plouër from 1759-64 & at St.-Suliac from 1765-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 80-81, Family No. 158, calls him Charles NAQUIN, says he was born c1738 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, says he was a laborer, details his marriage, calls his wife Anne DOIRON, says she was born c1744 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, says she died age 40 & was buried 18 Jul 1782 at Archigny, Poitou, & includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Marguerite-Ludivine, baptized 25 Feb 1775, Leigne-les-bois, goddaughter of Hilaire CLÉMENT & Marie DOIRON, daughter Renée, baptized 10 Feb 1777, Leigne-les-bois, goddaughter of Henry CRON & Renée FERRE, daughter Marie, baptized 5 Jan 1779, Leigne-les-bois, goddaughter of Jean-Charles GUILLOT & ____ NAQUIN, died age 3 mos. & buried 17 Apr 1779, Leigne-les-bois, & son Paul, baptized 2 May 1780, Archigny, godson of Paul GUILLOT & Anne NAQUIN; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls him Charles NAQUIN, laboureur, age 48, on the embarkation list, & Charles NAQUIN, day laborer, age 48, on the complete listing, says he was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with no wife & 6 children, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names but gives no place of marriage, says his wife died 18 Jul 1782 but gives no place of death or burial, that daughter Marguerite-Ludivine was born in 1775, daughter Renée in 1777, & son Paul in 1780, but gives no birthplaces.  See also De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:124; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 46, 91, 132, 178.

His wife's name also can be found in the marriage records of his children in BRDR, 2:562-63.  Though he was only 44 when his wife died, he never remarried.  

The family just below his on the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi is that of his sister Anne.  

06.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Yves [NAQUIN], & lists her with her widowed father & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Ives, sa [Charles NAQUIN's] fille, age 16, on the embarkation list, & Ives NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] daughter, age 16, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:269, 563 (ASC-2, 11), her marriage record, calls her Ives NAQUIN, calls her husband Jean DUPUIS, does not give her or his parents' names, & says the witness to her marriage was Jean-Charle GOTRO; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 3:381 (Houma Ct. Hse.: Succ. #309), an "administrator's bond" in her name, filed at the Houma courthouse on 26 Aug 1854, calls her Eve NAQUIN, gives her death date, says she was "m. Jean DUPRÉ," & lists a son, Jean Charles DUPRÉ.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 46, 52, 78, 180.

The Lafourche valley censuses of 1791, 1795, & 1797 list her husband as DUPRÉS or DUPRÉ, which is not Acadian but French Creole.

Like her sister Renée dite Rinette, she was one of the last Acadian immigrants in LA to join her ancestors. 

07.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Jean [NAQUIN], & lists him with his widowed father & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls him Jean, son [Charles NAQUIN's] fils, age 14, on the embarkation list, & Jean NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] son, age 14, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his widowed father & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:486, 563 (ASM-2, 58), his marriage record, calls him Juan Carlos NAQUIN of Diocese of Treguier in France, calls his wife Magdalena LE BEUF of St. John the Baptist Parish, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Juan BOUDREAUX & Ambrosio HÉBERT.  

08.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Joseph [NAQUIN], & lists him with his parents & twin brother; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2564, calls him Joseph NAQUIN, says he was born in 1740 but gives no birthplace, says he was son of François [NAQUIN] & Angélique BLANCHARD of Cobeguit, that he married Marie ARCENEAUX c1765 but gives no place of marriage, lists only 1 child for them, daughter Marie, born in 1788 but gives no birthplace, & says he settled at Ascension; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 635, Family No. 734, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph-Jacques NAQUIN, says he was a twin, that his parents were Ambroise NAQUIN & Élizabeth BOURG, that his godparents were Jean-Baptiste NAQUIN & Tarsille NAQUIN, & that his family resided at St.-Suliac from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 138, Family No. 251, calls him Joseph [NAQUIN], shows that his parents were Ambroise NAQUIN & Élizabeth BOURG, & details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls him Joseph, son [Ambroise NAQUIN's] fils, charpentier, age 19, on the embarkation list, & Joseph NAQUIN, his [Ambroise NAQUIN's] son, carpenter, age 19, on the complete listing, says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his parents & twin brother, & that he & his twin brother were born in 1766 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:26, 563 (ASC-2, 7), his marriage record, calls him Joseph NAQUIN, calls his wife Marie ARSENAU[sic], does not give his or her parents' names, typical of the priest at Ascension then, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph HÉBERT, Ambroise GARIDET, & Joseph TÉRRIOT; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:409 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, #765), calls him Joseph NAQUIN, gives his parents' names, but mentions no wife; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:409 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: Year 1837), his succession inventory, calls him Joseph NAQUIN m. Marie Josèphe ARSEMAN, & lists his children--Joseph; Ambroise; Marie Joseph m. Pierre GROS; & Constance m. Jacques MORILLION--but does not name his parents. 

09.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Ludovinne [NAQUIN], & lists her with her widowed father & 5 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 80, Family No. 158, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marguerite-Ludivine NAQUIN, & says her godparents were Hilaire CLÉMENT & Marie DOIRON; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Ludovinne, sa [Charles NAQUIN's] fille, age 10, on the embarkation list, & Ludovinne NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] daughter, age 10, on the complete listing, says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & 5 siblings, &, calling her Marguerite-Ludivine, says she was born in 1775 but gives no birthplace.

What happened to her in LA?  The debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi, unfortunately, did not survive.  She could have been one of the victims of the smallpox that struck the passengers of Le St.-Rémi soon after they reached the colony.  See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 64.

10.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Paul [NAQUIN], & lists him with his widowed father & 5 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 80-81, Family No. 158, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Paul NAQUIN, & says his godparents were Paul GUILLOT & Anne NAQUIN; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls him Paul, son [Charles NAQUIN's] fils, age 3, on the embarkation list, & Paul NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] son, age 3, on the complete listing, says he was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his widowed father & 5 siblings, & that he was born in 1780 but gives no birthplace.  

What happened to him in LA?  The debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi, unfortunately, did not survive.  He could have been one of the victims of the smallpox that struck the passengers of Le St.-Rémi soon after they reached the colony.  See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 64.

11.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Pierre [NAQUIN], & lists him with his parents & twin brother; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 635, Family No. 734, his birth/burial record, calls him Pierre-Paul NAQUIN, says he was a twin, that his parents were Ambroise NAQUIN & Élizabeth BOURG, that his godparents were Paul LANDRY & Marie-Madeleine BOURG, & that his family resided at St.-Suliac from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 138, Family No. 251, calls him Pierre [NAQUIN], & details his family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls him Pierre, son [Ambroise NAQUIN's] fils, charpentier, age 19, on the embarkation list, & Pierre NAQUIN, his [Ambroise NAQUIN's] son, carpenter, age 19, on the complete listing, says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his parents & twin brother, & that he & his twin brother were born in 1766 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:563, 636 (ASC-2, 9), his marriage record, calls him Pierre-Paul NAQUIN, does not give his or his wife's parents' names, typical of the priest at Ascension then, but says they all were Acadians, & that the witness to his marriage was Pierre BOURQUE; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 3:385 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, #702), his death/burial record, calls him Pierre NAQUIN, does not gives his parents' names or mention a wife, & says he was age 84 when he died.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1777-98, 132.

Why did the census taker at Valenzuéla in Jan 1798 call Pierre's wife "single"?

He was one of the last Acadian immigrants in LA to join his ancestors.

12.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Renné [NAQUIN], & lists her with her widowed father & 5 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 80-81, Family No. 158, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Renée NAQUIN, & says her godparents were Henry CRON & Renée FERRE; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Renné, sa [Charles NAQUIN's] fille, age 8, on the embarkation list, & Renné NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] daughter, age 8, on the complete listing, says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & 5 siblings, & that she was born in 1777 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:257, 563 (ASM-2, 49), her marriage record, calls her Reynalda NAQUIN, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says all of the parents were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph DUGAT & Ambroise HÉBERT; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 3:385 (Houma Ct.Hse.: Succ. #234), a "Petition for [succession] inventory" filed at the Houma courthouse on 25 October 1851, calls her Renette NAQUIN, "m. Jean Pierre Dugas," lists their children, & gives her death date.  

Like her sister Ives, she was one of the last Acadian immigrants in LA to join her ancestors.

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