APPENDICES

Alpha List of Seven Ships Passengers, 29 July-17 December 1785

The following information is taken from Braud, From Nantes to LA; Fr. Donald Hébert's Acadian Families in Exile 1785, the most complete listing; Tim Hébert's <acadian-cajun.com/hiscaj2c.htm>; & Winzerling, Acadian Odyssey, the standard history of the Seven Ships' expeditions.  This information also can be found in Wall of Names, 27-47, without ages or occupations and often with spellings different from the other lists.  Information about births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials come from BRDR, South LA Records, Southwest LA Records, NOAR, & other sources, especially the Robichaux volumes on the Acadians in France.  

Ages given here are often different from the ages found in the passenger lists cited above, which copy the Seven Ships passenger lists as recorded by French and Spanish officials.  However, other sources I have consulted, especially birth/baptismal records and censuses, call into question the ages given on those passenger lists.  If I have changed an individual's age here, it will be followed by *.   For those of you who want to know the ages recorded on the passenger lists, follow the hyperlink attached to an individual's name on the list below, which will take you to the individual's family page.  There the age given on the passenger list will be followed in the individual's profile by [sic].  

Passengers are listed alphabetically by surname.  Individuals with the same first and family names (there are 14 Marie HÉBERTSs!) are listed in the order of the ship's arrival and then by the person's age.  The surnames of male Acadian heads of families with children, including deceased heads, are highlighted in yellow; non-Acadian male heads of families with children, including deceased heads, are highlighted in turquoise.  First or middle names found in other sources are included on this list.  This list also includes over a dozen newborn infants who are not found in the other lists.  Notations are from information provided by the ship's passenger list as copied by Father Hébert and from other sources.

Tim Hébert writes of this great venture:  "In 1785, Spain paid for 7 ships to transport Acadians to settle in Louisiana.  For Spain, it meant settlers to buffer the zone between Spanish land and the British land.  For the Acadians, it meant a chance to join their fellow Acadians and to regain some of what they lost during the Exile."  The editors of the Wall of Names, 26, quoting Winzerling, Acadian Odyssey, 153, write:  "It has been written that with the launching of the Acadian expeditions, 'Spain and Louisiana share the unique distinction of having staged the world's largest trans-Atlantic colonization project on the North American continent.'"134  

Of the nearly 2,900 Acadians who found refuge in Louisiana from 1764 into the early 1800s, more than half of them arrived on these Seven Ships.

Ship Abbreviations:

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name takes you to the individual's history in the Acadian family pages, which contain many more details of the person's life.  However, there are no hyperlinks in the Acadians-to-Louisiana Alpha List that return you to this one; you will have to use the handy return arrow to get back to this list.