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ABADIE
Pronunciation: AB-uh-dee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, HÉBERT, RIVET
Comments:
ABRIBAT
Pronunciation: AB-ruh-bot
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDET
Comments:
ABSHIRE
Pronunciation: AB-share, AB-shire
Origin: German Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by the 1780s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: John
ABCHER
Settled: Atakapas District, now St. Martin,
Lafayette, Iberia, & Vermilion parishes
Acadian connection: COMEAUX
Comments: John ABCHER, whose name evolved
into ABSHIRE, was a blacksmith from Germany who settled "at Vermillon"
by the 1780s. He married Francoise HARGRAVE, daughter of Benjamin
HARGRAVE & Rebecca GOLTNE [probably GWALTNEY] from Virginia. John
and Francoise had at least 10 children, 6 boys and 4 girls, the oldest of
whom, daughter Louise, was born in August 1781. ...
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:1-3, which does not list John ABCHER's parents in any of the birth records
of his children.
ACHÉE
Pronunciation: AH-shay, ah-SHAY
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
ACKESON
Pronunciation: ACK-eh-son
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEGER
Comments:
ACOSTA
Pronunciation: uh-KOSS-tuh
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: August 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph ACOSTA
Settled:
Acadian connection: TRAHAN, BOUDREAUX
Comments:
ADAM/ADAMS
Pronunciation: ah-DONH, AD-um, AD-ums
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BENOIT, BERNARD,
BLANCHARD, BOUDREAUX, BOURG, GRANGER, GUILLOT, HÉBERT, LEVRON, ROGER
Comments:
ADDISON
Pronunciation: ADD-ih-son
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: RICHARD
Comments:
AGUILLARD
Pronunciation: AG-ih-lard, AG-wih-lard
Origin: Spanish Creole
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled: New Iberia
Acadian connection: SAVOIE
Comments:
AILLET
Pronunciation: Ah-YAY
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: December 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Thomas &
Louis AILLET
Settled: probably Bayou des Écores, now Thompson
Creek, present-day East Baton Rouge Parish; West Baton Rouge Parish
Acadian connection: DOIRON, DUGAS, LANDRY, LEJEUNE
Comments: Thomas, fils, age 10, and Louis, age 6, sons of
Thomas AILLET, père, evidently a Frenchman, and his widow, Acadian Victoire DUGAS,
arrived at New Orleans with their mother aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships
from France, in December 1785. They probably followed other Acadian
families from the La Ville d'Archangel to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores,
present-day Thompson Creek, north Baton Rouge. After a series of hurricanes
devastated the area, they abandoned Bayou des Écores in the early 1790s with
the majority of their fellow Acadians and moved across the river
to West Baton Rouge Parish. Thomas, fils married Marie-Julienne,
daughter of French Creoles Louis MARRIAUX and Juliana GAUTIER, at Baton Rouge
in July
1800. Louis married Marie-Victoire,
daughter of Acadians Jean-Baptiste LEJEUNE
and Marie DOIRON, at Baton
Rouge in December 1805. Thomas, fils died in West Baton Rouge
Parish in July 1839, age 64. Louis died by 1848, when he was listed as deceased in the
marriage record of his son Louis, fils (born in 1824). Louis, père's son Sosthène,
born in 1822, who married Zulma,
daughter of Acadians Élie Onésime LANDRY
and Jeanne Zerbine DUPUY, at Brusly,
West Baton Parish, in February 1853, was a veteran of the Mexican War and served
as 1Sgt, Jr2LT, & CPT of Company H, 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry (the West Baton
Rouge Tirailleurs) in the War Between the States. Another descendant of
the AILLET brothers, Louis
Alphonse, called Alphonse, born in September 1842, son of Augustin AILLET and
Apolline AILLET and first cousin of
Sosthène, was killed in action at the
Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, in August 1864, while serving as 2Cpl with the West
Baton Rouge Tirailleurs.
Sources: BRDR, 2:7, 3:6-7, 4:4; 5(rev.):7, 7:5, 8:5-6;
Richey, Tirailleurs, 167, 214.
ALBARADO
Pronunciation: Al-buh-RAH-do
Origin: Hispanic Texan
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1804
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph Antoine
ALBARADO
Settled: Attakapas Post area, present-day St.
Martin & Lafayette parishes
Acadian connection: MELANCON
Comments: Joseph Antoine ALBARADO, son of
Jose ALBARADO & Rosalie Flores of Meluejor, province of Texas, settled in
the Attakapas area by the early 1800s. Joseph Antoine married Madeleine Francoise
Avila, daughter of Jose Joachin De Avila & Marie ISTRE of Opelousas, 30
Jul 1804, in the St. Landry Catholic Church, Opelousas.
Source: Hebert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-B:20.
ALBERT
Pronunciation: al-BEAR; AL-bert
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: December 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Nicolas-Gabriel
ALBERT, père, & Nicolas-Gabriel ALBERT, fils
Settled: St. James Parish; Assumption Parish
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BOUDREAUX,
BOURG, BREAUX, HÉBERT, RICHARD, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
ALEXANDRE/ALEXANDRIE
Pronunciation: al-ex-AN-dur, al-ex-AN-dree
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
ALLAIN
Pronunciation: ah-LANH
Origin: French Creole, Acadian [see Family
History]
ALLEMAND
Pronunciation: AH-lay-mon, AL-eh-mon, al-eh-MON
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: TRAHAN
Comments:
ALMINDINGER
Pronunciation: ALL-min-ding-ur
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN
Comments:
ALONZO
Pronunciation: uh-LON-zo
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
ALTAZIN
Pronunciation: ALL-tuh-zanh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARBOUR
Comments:
ALVAREZ
Pronunciation: AL-vuh-rez
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEBLANC
Comments:
AMMAN
Pronunciation: AM-un
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: THIBODEAUX
Comments:
AMY
Pronunciation: ah-MEE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY, RICHARD
Comments:
ANDRÉ
Pronunciation: OHN-dray, AHN-dray
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABIN, POTIER
Comments:
ANDRÉPONT
Pronunciation: onh-dray-PONT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: JEANSONNE, LEJEUNE,
PITRE
Comments:
ANDRUS
Pronunciation: AN-drus
Origin: Scots ... South Carolina
Arrived in Louisiana: c1780
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Benjamin
ANDREWS
Settled: Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé southwest of
Opelousas near Church Point, Acadia Parish; Grand Côte
between St. Martinville & Lafayette; Calcasieu River, north of
Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish; Bayou Cannes near Evangeline, Acadia Parish; Bayou Nezpique north of Jennings,
Jefferson Davis Parish; west bank of Mermentau River between Jennings & Lake Arthur, Jefferson Davis Parish
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, GUIDRY,
HÉBERT, JEANSONNE, LEGER, MOUTON, PREJEAN, RICHARD, ROGER, SAVOIE
Comments: The name evolved in Louisiana from
Andrews to ANDRUS, evidence of the gallicization of the family's name. The
ANDRUSs remain a prominent family in Jefferson Davis Parish.
Sources: Hébert,
D., Southwest LA Records, CD; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 145-46.
ANGELLE
Pronunciation: Ohn-JHELL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD, DUPUIS,
GUIDRY, HEBERT
Comments:
ANSELM
Pronunciation: Ohn-SELM
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LAVERGNE
Comments:
ARABIE
Pronunciation: ah-rah-bee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY, MARTIN
Comments:
ARBOUR
Pronunciation: ar-BORE
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
ARCEMENT
Pronunciation: AR-seh-monh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
ARCENEAUX
Pronunciation: AR-seh-no
Origin: French Canadian, Acadian [see Family
History]
ARDOIN
Pronunciation: ARD-wanh
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: late 1770s or early 1780s,
from Kaskaskia, Illinois, via Detroit
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Etienne, Sr.,
Etienne, Jr., Joseph, Francois ARDOUIN
Settled: False River, Pointe Coupée; Grande
Prairie, Opelousas District, now St. Landry Parish; Atakapas District, now
St. Martin, Lafayette, & Vermilion parishes
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, FORET, TRAHAN
Comments:
Sources: Hébert,
D., Southwest LA Records, CD; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 18-19.
ARMAND/ARMANT
Pronunciation: ar-MON, AR-mont, ar-MONT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: POTIER, RICHARD
Comments:
ARNAUD
Pronunciation: AR-no, ar-NODE
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrivied in Louisiana: December 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: René ARNAUD
Settled: Ascension Parish
Acadian connection: DOUCET
Comments: René, son of Pierre
ARNAUD and Marie RAIMON of Vouneil, France, married Anne-Perrine ALBERT,
daughter of Nicolas-Gabriel ALBERT and Marie-Marthe
BENOIT, an Acadian, at Cenan, France, in November 1780. René and Anne-Pérrine had at least one
son, Pierre, who died at age 17 days. Anne-Pérrine may have died as a
result of childbirth. Now a widower, René sailed to Louisiana aboard La
Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships of 1785, as an immigré.
Soon after reaching New Orleans, he married a fellow passenger on La
Caroline, Marie-Marguerite,
daughter of Joseph DOUCET and Marguerite MOLAISON,
in January 1786 at
St.-Louis church. They probably settled at Lafourche, where
Marie-Marguerite's widowed father settled.
Sources: Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault,
3; Wall of Names, 47.
Second Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1808
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jacques
ARNAUD
Settled: Opelousas area
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD, BROUSSARD, DUGAS,
FORET
Comments: Joseph Vincent ARNAUD of Josiers,
diocese of Embrun, France, near Turin, married Elisabeth OLIVIER in
France. Their son, Jacques, fathered a son (Pierre Rosémond)
in 1808 with Anne,
daughter of Pierre DUGAS and Anne THIBODEAUX
of Acadia. Jacques settled in the Grande
Prairie area of the Opelousas District and married Marie,
daughter of Baptiste LALONDE and Marie DUCRE, at Opelousas in January 1810.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-B:17-18.
ARRIEUX
Pronunciation: AH-ree-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DUGAS
Comments:
ASHFORD
Pronunciation: ASH-ferd
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
AUBERT
Pronunciation: OH-bear
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON, LEVRON, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
AUBIN
Pronunciation: aw-BANH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DOIRON
Comments:
AUCOIN
Pronunciation: OH-kwanh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
AUGÉ
Pronunciation: Aw-JAY
First Family:
Origin: French Canadian via Illinois
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1803
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Joseph AUGER
Settled: Opelousas area, present-day St. Landry
Parish
Comments: Joseph AUGER, son of Joseph
AUGER & Madeleine TURPIN of islas negras, now Illinois, married
Célestine DELAFOSSE, daugher of Romain DELAFOSSE and Rosalie BENOIT
of the Opelousas area, 8 February 1803, in St. Landry Catholic Church,
Opelousas. The Joseph AUGÉ of Company K, 10th Louisiana Infantry
probably was a descendant of this couple.
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole or Immigrant
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1806
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Charles
Rene Gatien AUGER
Settled: Attakapas region, now St. Martin, Lafayette
& Vermilion parishes
Acadian connection: PELLERIN
Comments: Charles René Gatien AUGER, son
of Jacques OGER and Marie-Anne MIVAULT of Ponce, in Vendomoin, France,
married Eugenie PELLERIN,
daughter of Gregoire PELLERIN and Cecile PREJEAN,
28 July 1806, in St. Martin Catholic Church, St. Martinville, then called
Atakapas Post.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest La. Records,
1-B:20.
Comment: Despite two separate families, the name
may have disappeared from South Louisiana.
AUGERON
Pronunciation: AW-juh-ronh, Aw-juh-RONH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, BERNARD, BOUDREAUX,
GUIDRY, LANDRY, MIRE
Comments:
AUTIN
Pronunciation: oh-TAHN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON,
FORET, GUIDRY, THERIOT
Comments:
AVERY
Pronunciation: AVE-ree
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: none found
Comments:
AYCOCK
Pronunciation: AY-cock
Origin: Anglo-American ... North Carolina
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1808
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Burrell
AYCOCK
Settled: Assumption Parish
Acadian connection: BERTAUD, BOUDREAUX, GAUTREAUX
Comments: Burrell, also called Borel,
AYCOCK, son of Simon AYCOCK and Elizabeth BENETTE, married Anne Apolline, daughter of Acadians
Joseph GAUTREAUX
and Marie Madeleine
THERIOT, in June 1808 in the
Church of the Assumption at Plattenville. The marriage record lists him as a blacksmith from North Carolina. ...
Sources: BRDR, 3:44-45.
AYMOND
Pronunciation: AY-mon
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ACHEE, BERGERON, DUPUIS, GRANGER,
LEJEUNE
Comments:
AYO
Pronunciation: EYE-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON,
BOUDREAUX, BOURG, NAQUIN
Comments:
AYRAUD
Pronunciation: AY-rode
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ACHEE, LE BLANC
Comments:
BABIN
Pronunciation: Bah-BANH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BABINEAUX
Pronunciation: BAH-beh-noh, BAB-eh-noh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BADEAUX
Pronunciation: BAH-doh, BA-doh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX, GUIDRY
Comments:
BAILLE
Pronunciation: BAY-lee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: VINCENT
Comments:
BARBAY
Pronunciation: bar-BAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDET
Comments:
BARBIER
Pronunciation: bar-bee-AY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX
Comments:
BARKER
Pronunciation: BAR-kur
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BARRAS
Pronunciation: BAH-rah, bah-RAH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN,
BOUDREAUX,
BOURG, CORMIER, DOUCET, GUILBEAU, HÉBERT, LEBLANC, LEJEUNE, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
BARRE
Pronunciation: Bah-RAY, BAR
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ACHEE, FORET, GUIDRY
Comments:
BARRILLEAUX/BARRIOT
Pronunciation: BAH-reh-yoh, BEAR-ee-yoh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BARRIOS
Pronunciation: BEAR-ee-oh, BEAR-ee-os
Origin: Spanish Creole
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled: Ascension Parish
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX
Comments:
BARTHELEMY
Pronunciation: bar-THAY-luh-mee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, LANDRY
Comments:
BAUDOIN
Pronunciation: BODE-wanh
First Family:
Origin: Flemish-Belgian Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: 1740s or 1750s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Nicolas
Baudouin
Settled: St. Charles Parish; St. Martin & Lafayette
parishes
Comments: Nicolas BAUDOUIN of Flanders,
part of present-day Belgium, married Marguerite BROU
or BRAU probably in the 1750s and settled at St-Charles des Allemands
on the German Coast above New Orleans. Son Pierre was born at
St.-Charles in c1758 and married Marguerite, daughter of German
Creoles Frederick TOUPS and Marguerite _____, at New Orleans in May 1780.
They had at least two sons, Adolphe and Charles, and three daughters,
Marguerite, Justine, and Marie. Pierre remarried to Marguerite, daughter
of German Creoles André EDELMAYER and Marguerite SCHEXNAYDER, probably at
St.-Charles. They had at least one daughter, Césaire, born at
St.-Charles. In the early 1800s, soon after the Louisiana Purchase,
Pierre and his family crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at Petit Bayou
on the lower Vermilion River in what was then a part of St. Martin Parish.
Adolphe, by Pierre's first wife, married cousin Geneviève, daughter of Gaspard
TOUPS and Geneviève HAYDEL, at St.-Charles and followed his father and
stepmother to the western prairies. Pierre and Marguerite's daughter
Seraphine, and Adolphe and Geneviève's daughter Geneviève, were baptized in St.
Martin Parish, ages 2 years and 2 1/2 months, respectively, on 19 October 1807--the family's
first appearance in that parish's church records. Pierre's daughters
Justine and Marie by his first wife married into the PRIMEAUX and TOUPS
families in St. Martin Parish on the same day in February 1808. Pierre's
daughter Marguerite's son Jean-Charles was baptized in St. Martin Parish at
age 1 in July 1809. Charles, by Pierre's first wife, married Julie,
daughter of Acadian Marin MOUTON and his
first wife Marie-Josèphe LAMBERT, in St. Martin Parish in July 1809.
Pierre's daughter Césaire by his second wife married Acadian Jean
TRAHAN in St. Martin Parish in November 1810.
Meanwhile, Pierre died at his home on the lower Vermilion in January 1808, age
50. ...
The family's name also is spelled Bodoin.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
vol. 1-B; NOAR, vol. 3.
Second family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: 1780s or 1790s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Jean BAUDOIN, fils
Settled: New Orleans; St. James and
Lafourche parishes
Comments:
Jean, fils, son of Jean BAUDOIN
and Isabelle TELLOGROS of Tarbes in the Bigorre region of the
Hautes-Pyrénées in the south of France, married Geneviève, daughter of
François ANDRA of Provence in France and Marie PORTIER of St.-Jean-Baptiste
des Allemans on the German Coast above New Orleans, probably at
St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands by the early 1790s. Son Jean-Louis was
born in August 1792 probably at St.-Jean-Baptiste and baptized at New
Orleans in early September, but died at age 1 in August 1793. Daughter
Delphine was born in c1796, and daughter Marie-Anne-Adèle, called Adèle, was
baptized at New Orleans, age 8 months, in April 1798. Son
Laurent-Estival, called Estival, was baptized at New Orleans, age 7 months,
in June 1800. Daughter Marie-Anne or -Geneviève was born in September
1801 but died a "very young child" in November. Daughter Zoe was born
at New Orleans in c1805. They also had a daughter named Marie Eulalie.
Estival married Marie Radivine, daughter of German Creoles
Gaspard TOUPS and Geneviève HAYDEL, in Lafourche Interior Parish in February
1825. Son Laurent Estival, fils was born in Lafourche
Interior Parish in November 1829. ...
The family's name also is spelled Baudoia, Baudoin.
Sources: Hébert, D.,
South LA Records, vol. 1; NOAR, vols. 5, 6, 7.
Third family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: late colonial
period
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Antoine BAUDOIN
Settled: St. Charles and St. James
parishes
Comments: Antoine BAUDOIN married
Marie BROU probably at St.-Charles des Allemands. Their daughter Marie
married first to Jacques TROSCLAIR and then to François, fils, son
of François DUFRESNE and Marie LACHAUSSÉE and widower of Françoise PORTIER,
at St.-Jacques of Cabahannocer on the Acadian Coast in November 1795.
...
Sources: BRDR, vol. 2
Fourth family:
Origin: Missouri French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1831
Settled: Lafourche Parish
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Auguste BAUDOIN
Auguste, son of Jean
BAUDOIN and Marie Louise LANDRONISE, was
born at St. Louis, Missouri, in c1807. At age 24, Auguste married
Claire, daughter of Pierre MENOU and his Acadian wife Marie Rose
LEJEUNE and widow of Acadian François
ROGER, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April
1831. Son Amédé Marcelieux was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in
August 1833. ...
Sources: Hébert, D.,
South LA Records, vol. 1
Acadian connections for all families: AUCOIN,
BERGERON, BOUDREAUX, BOURG, BOURGEOIS, BROUSSARD, DOIRON, GAUDET, HÉBERT, LEJEUNE, MOUTON, TRAHAN
General comments:
BAYARD
Pronunciation: bah-YARD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABINEAUX
Comments:
BAYE
Pronunciation: bye
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD, VINCENT
Comments:
BAYHI
Pronunciation: bah-yee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ?
Comments:
BEAMAN
Pronunciation: BEE-mun
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BEAUREGARD
Pronunciation: BO-rih-gard
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY, MARTIN
Comments:
BEAUVAIS
Pronunciation: BO-vay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, RICHARD
Comments:
BEGNAUD
Pronunciation: BEG-noh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DOIRON
Comments:
BELANGER
Pronunciation: Beh-LAWN-jay, BELL-in-jer
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCEMENT, BERGERON, COMEAUX,
CROCHET, GUIDRY, LAMBERT, ROBICHAUX, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
BELLARD
Pronunciation: BELL-ard
Origin: French Immigrant
Arrived in Louisiana: October 1769
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Antoine
BELLARD, fils
Settled: Opelousas District, present-day St.
Landry and Acadia parishes
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, COMEAUX, FORET,
TRAHAN
Comments: According to the Acadian Memorial in
St. Martinville, Louisiana,
Antoine, fils, son of Antoine BELLARD and Marie-Françoise GALLAND, was Acadian, but he was not. He likely
was born in Picardie, northern France, of French parents. Moreover, no family named
BELLARD lived in greater Acadia, at least none can be found bearing the name
in Arsenault's and White's genealogies. Antoine, fils was living in Maryland when
he married Marie, daughter of Acadians Honoré
TRAHAN and Marie
CORPORON of Pigiguit, in the
mid-1760s. Antoine, fils and Marie, with son Étienne-Simon, called
Simon, age 2, left Port Tobacco, Maryland, for Louisiana aboard the
ill-fated British vessel Britannia in 1769. Also aboard the ship were Marie's parents
and her brother Pierre.
No group of Acadians who came to Louisiana suffered as much
as these folks to get to the promised land. The Britannia (sometimes
spelled Britania) left Port Tobacco, Maryland, for New Orleans on
January 5, 1769, with seven Acadian families aboard. Also on the ship were
eight Catholic German families who, for reasons of their own, no longer
wanted to live in a British colony. The crew of the Britannia
sighted the coast of Louisiana on February 21, but the captain of the ship,
either through bad luck or incompetence, missed the mouth of the Mississippi
because of heavy fog. Strong winds drove the ship westward, and a few days
later the Britannia ran onto the Texas coast at Espiritu Santo Bay.
The crew went ashore and located a Spanish officer, who suspected them of
being spies or smugglers. Instead of giving them food and fresh water, he
arrested them and ordered his men to escort everyone on the ship to the
interior post of La Bahía. The passengers and crew of the Britannia
remained at La Bahía for six long months, waiting for the Spanish
authorities to decide their fate. While at La Bahía, they were forced to
work as semi-slaves around the presidio and on nearby ranches. Finally, in
early September, a Spanish officer arrived at the presidio with instructions
for the commandant there to send the captives overland to Natchitoches in
central Louisiana. They could not return to the abandoned Britannia
because the Spanish and the coastal Indians had stripped the vessel so
thoroughly it was no longer seaworthy. On September 11, the Acadians joined
the other passengers and the English crew on the 420-mile trek to
Natchitoches, which they did not reach until late October. Governor-General O'Reilly, meanwhile, had decided that the Acadian families in the
group would settle at Natchitoches because of their familiarity with the
growing of rye and wheat. Natchitoches settlers welcomed the newcomers and
supplied them with food, tools, and animals. The German families were told
that they could continue on to New Orleans via the Red and Mississippi
rivers, pick up supplies, and then settle at St.-Gabriel d'Iberville on the
Mississippi. The Germans accompanied the English crew to New Orleans and
arrived there on November 9. Most of the Acadians refused to
remain at Natchitoches, which was too far away from their compatriots to the
south. They, too, left the Red River valley and joined their relatives on
the Acadian Coast and at Opelousas.
Antoine, fils remarried to Marie, daughter of Acadian Jacques
FOREST and Marguerite
COMEAU and widow of Jean-Baptiste
AUCOIN, at Opelousas in October 1797.
Marie was a native of St.-Servan near St.-Malo and had come to Louisiana
aboard one of the Seven Ships from France in 1785. Antoine, fils
died at Opelousas in February 1805. The priest who recorded his burial
said that Antoine was age 63 when he died. His youngest daughter was
born posthumously six months later. Most of his sons created families of their own in
St. Landry Parish. Some of his grandsons moved to the Church Point area
of what is now Acadia Parish. ...
Sources: Arsenault, Généalogie; BRDR, vol. 2; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Kinnaird, "The Revolutionary Period, 1765-81,"
140-42; NOAR, vol. 1; White, DGFA-1.
BELLO
Pronunciation: BELL-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROY, SONNIER
Comments:
BELLON
Pronunciation: BELL-awn
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: MARTIN
Comments:
BELSON
Pronunciation: BELL-sonh, BELL-sun
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX
Comments:
BENOIT
Pronunciation: BEN-wah
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1751
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled: Pointe Coupée
Source: BRDR, 1b:45.
Second Family:
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: Although not all of the BENOITs of
South Louisiana were Acadians, they will be listed here as Acadian.
BENZ
Pronunciation: Binz
Origin: German Immigrant
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY
Comments:
BERARD
Pronunciation: BAY-rahr
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX, BROUSSARD
Comments:
BERAUD
Pronunciation: BAY-ro
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BERGERON
Pronunciation: BA-jeh-ronh, BER-jeh-ronh
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1744
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Guillaume
BERGERON dit St. Onge, native of St. Sulpice Parish, Diocese of Xaintes,
France
Settled: Natchitoches, Pointe Coupée
Comments:
Source: BRDR, 1b:18-19, 103.
Second Family:
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: Although not all of the BERGERONs of
South Louisiana were Acadian, this family is listed with the Acadians.
BERCEGEAY
Pronunciation: ber-suh-JAY, ber-SAH-zhee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY, PART
Comments:
BERLUCHAU
Pronunciation: bur-leh-SHO
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUILLOT
Comments:
BERNARD
Pronunciation: ber-NARD, bear-NARD, bear-NAH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BERTEAU
Pronunciation: bare-toe
Origin: French Creole/Foreign French [see Family
History]
BERTHELOT
Pronunciation: BER-theh-lo
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, BOURG, DUGAS, GAUTREAUX,
HÉBERT, LEBLANC
Comments:
BERTRAND
Origin: French Creole, French Canadian, Acadian [see Family
History]
BERWICK
Pronunciation: BUR-wick
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEJEUNE
Comments:
BERZAS
Pronunciation: BUR-za
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERTRAND
Comments:
BESLIN
Pronunciation: bez-LANH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, CORMIER
Comments:
BESSE
Pronunciation: BESS, BESS-ee
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: 1840s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: brothers
Charles Alfred BESSE & Pierre Hermengilde BESSE of St. John Dorchester,
today's St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, District of Montréal, Lower Canada
Settled: Attakapas Canal, Assumption Parish;
Morgan City, St. Mary Parish
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, LANDRY
Comments: Charles
Albert BESSE of Montréal, born in c1822, came to South Louisiana in
1844 and was naturalized a citizen in December 1853. He married
Victorine Marcellite, daughter of Acadians Joseph
BOUDREAUX, fils and his second wife Marie Mélanie, called
Mélanie, GAUTREAUX, at the Plattenville
church, Assumption Parish, in January 1850. Charles Albert, called
Albert, was naturalized a citizen of the United States in December 1853.
Daughter Marie Angelique or Angeline was born on the upper Lafourche in
October 1850 and died 18 days after her birth. Son Joseph Hermenegilde
dit Armenie was born on the upper bayou in September 1851 but died at
age 11 months in August 1852. Son Pierre Frédéric was born on the upper
bayou in April 1853; daughter Victorine Octavie in March 1855; son Omer
Hermenegilde in September 1858; and daughter Pauline Cordilia in September
1860. Despite his age and his being the father of four young children,
Charles Albert served Louisiana in uniform during the War of 1861-65. He
enlisted as a private in Company F of the 26th Regiment Louisiana Infantry,
raised in Terrebonne Parish, probably in the spring of 1862, at age about 40.
Perhaps because of his advanced age, he was serving as a nurse in a Vicksburg
hospital when the Confederates surrendered there in July 1863. He likely
went home to await his regiment's exchange and enlisted as a private in the
2nd Regiment Louisiana Cavarly perhaps after his exchange. The Federals
captured at Bayou Boeuf near his home in either late February or mid-March
1864, held him in New Orleans, him to a general hospital there in April, and
released him in May. He was hospitalized again, this time at the St.
Louis General Hospital in the city, and released the following July, "age 42."
Later that month, he was sent from New Orleans to Red River Landing on the
river near Baton Rouge, where, as a member of the 2nd Louisiana Cavalry, he
was exchanged ... again. One suspects that his age and delicate health
secured him a discharge from Confederate service, but his records do not say.
There is no doubt that he survived the war and returned to his family.
Son Jean Herminigilde was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in May
1867; ...
Meanwhile, Charles Albert's brother
Pierre Hermengilde came to Louisiana from
Montréal in 1849 and was naturalized a citizen in September 1856. He
married Marie Marine or Mariane, called Mariane, 22-year-old daughter of
Acadians Auguste LANDRY and his first wife
Marie Louise BOUDREAUX, at St. Andrew
Church, Brashear, now Morgan, City, St. Mary Parish, on the lower
Atchafalaya, in November 1857, though the marriage was recorded at the
church in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, perhaps by a missionary priest.
Pierre and Mariane remained in the Brashear City area. Their daughter
Marie Angélique was born there in February 1864; and son Gilles Victor in
November 1866. Unlike his brother, Pierre did not serve the Southern
Confederacy in uniform during the War of 1861-65. ...
Sources: Booth, LA Confederate
Soldiers, 1:185; BRDR, 7: 53-54, 75, 8:61, 9:55, 10:58;
Hébert, D., South LA Records, 3:64, 308; Hébert, D., Southwest
LA Records, 7:35, 8:40; E. A. "Tim" Besse, descendant.
BESSON
Pronunciation: BESS-onh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG
Comments:
BETANCOURT
Pronunciation: BAY-tonh-core
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, DAIGLE
Comments:
BIENVENU
Pronunciation: bee-AN-veh-noo
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, BROUSSARD, GUILBEAU,
MARTIN, MOUTON, POTIER, THERIOT
Comments:
BIGOT
Pronunciation: BIH-go
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, LANDRY
Comments:
BIHM
Pronunciation: BIM
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEJEUNE
Comments:
BIJEAU/BUJOLE
Pronunciation: BEE-jo, BOO-zho, BOO-zhole
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BILES
Pronunciation: BYLES
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: THIBODEAUX
Comments:
BILLAUD/BILLEAUD
Pronunciation: bee-yoh
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BILLEAUDEAU
Pronunciation: BILL-uh-doh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: OZELET
Comments:
BILLINGS
Pronunciation: BIH-lings, BILL-ings
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BINGAY
Pronunciation: bain-GAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BISSETT/BIZETTE
Pronunciation: bih-SET, bih-ZET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON, BREAUX, LAVERGNE, ROY
Comments:
BLANC
Pronunciation: BLON, BLONC
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABIN, BOURG, BOURGEOIS
Comments:
BLANCHARD
Pronunication: blonh-SHARD, BLAN-cherd
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BLANCHET
Pronunciation: Blonh-SHET, Blan-CHET
First Family:
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1787
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Michel BLANCHET
Settled: Opelousas District, present-day St.
Landry Parish
Acadian Connection: PINET
Comments: Michel, son
of Simon BLANCHET and Marie-Françoise BOUCHART of Québec, married an Acadian,
Angélique, daughter of Charles PINET
and Marie MARCHAND of Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, and widow of
Michel LÉGER, at Opelousas in April 1787; he was 44,
and she was 46 at the time of the wedding. They remained in the Opelousas
area. Michel died in November 1818 at his home on the Prairie
des Femmes; he was 75 years old. He and Angélique had no children, so this line of the
BLANCHET family did not take root in the Bayou State.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:67, 2-A:89-90.
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1800
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Olivier
BLANCHET
Settled: Attakapas District, present-day St.
Martin, Lafayette, & Vermilion parishes
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, BROUSSARD, HÉBERT,
MOUTON
Comments: Olivier, son of François BLANCHET
and Françoise LES PINAUD or DESPINAU of St.-Germain Parish, Matignon,
Diocese of St.-Brieuc, Brittany, France, married Marie-Ursule, called Ursule,
daughter of Jacques FAUSTIN or FOSTIN, at Attakapas in June 1800; Marie-Ursule's mother was Françoise TRAHAN,
an Acadian. Olivier settled on the lower Vermilion River. Son Olivier-Firmin, born in March 1801, married Carmelite, daughter of Acadians Jean
Charles BOUDREAUX and Dorothée COMEAUX, at Vermilionville,
now Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, in May 1825. Another of Olivier's sons, never named, was two days old
when he died in January 1808. Olivier's son Alexis, born in March 1809, married
Anastasie, daughter of Acadians Louis HÉBERT
and Françoise BROUSSARD, at
Vermilionville in January 1827. Olivier's son Cyril was born in March 1814 but
died in October 1829, age 15, before he could marry. Olivier's son Édouard died in
November 1817; he was only 10 months old. Olivier's son Alexis Clairville, called
Clairville, born in January 1821, married Caroline, daughter of Acadians Jean BOUDREAUX
and Marguerite MOUTON, at
Vermilionville in June 1837. Meanwhile, Olivier died soon after son Alexis
Clairville was born; he was listed as deceased in the marriage record of his
daughter Urasie, dated 18 June 1821; his succession record at the Lafayette
Parish courthouse is dated 2 October 1823. Olivier's wife Ursule died a few year
later. Their daughter Urasie married a Dane from Copenhagen, Crisitan
HILLEBRAND, who also had settled on the lower Vermilion. Olivier's
other daughters, Anastasie and Carmelite, married into the BROUSSARD,
MOUTON, and VEAZEY
families. Most, if not all, of the BLANCHETs of southwest
Louisiana--including you, Russ--are descendants of Olivier of
Brittany.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:68, 1-B:63-64, 2-A: 89, 2-B:86-87, 2-C:68-70, 3:60, 71, 5:51.
Third Family:
Origin: French Creole or Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: ?
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: René BLANCHET?
Settled: St. Martin Parish; Iberia Parish
Acadian Connection: none found
Comments: Julien Michel, son of
René BLANCHET and Françoise CRUSON of New Orleans, married Louise Caroline
RATIER of New Orleans at St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, in February 1835. Julien Marie
and his family probably were not kin to the other BLANCHETs of South
Louisiana. Their daughter Marie Louise Octavie was born in February 1840
and baptized at New Iberia. Son François Aurelia was born
in April 1845 and also was baptized at New Iberia.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
3:60, 4:42.
Further Comments: François, son of Jean BLANCHET
and Marguerite GILLES of Vitre, St.-Martin Parish, diocese of Rennes,
Brittany, France, married Marguerite, daughter of Nicolas PUGNANT and Marie
BRUNET of Louisbourg, Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, at Louisbourg in
September 1739. Île Royale is considered a part of greater Acadia, so François
was "Acadian." However, neither he nor any of his descendants emigrated to
Louisiana.
Sources: Hébert, Acadians in Exile,
33.
BLOUIN
Pronunciation: BLOO-an
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BABIN, BLANCHARD,
GAUDET, GAUDIN, HÉBERT, LAMBERT, PART
Comments:
BODIN
Pronunciation: BO-dan
First Family:
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1775
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean-Laurens
BAUDIN
Settled: Attakapas District, present-day
Lafayette Parish
Comments: Jean Laurens BAUDIN of Canada
married Marie-Michel ST. CROIX from the Spanish Poste Los Adaes, near
Natchitoches. Their son Jean-Pierre, born in c1775,
married Anne-Marguerite, called Manon, daughter of Acadians Joseph HÉBERT and Jeanne
DE LA FORESTRIE of Nantes,
France, and they settled near her family at Carencro in present-day
Lafayette Parish. Jean-Pierre died in December 1805, age 30, at the home of Pierre HÉBERT of Carencro.
Jean-Pierre's son Joseph, born
in August 1805, was only 3 1/2 months old when his father died; he married Émilie,
daughter of Jean FRUGÉ and Eléonore MOREAU of St. Landry Parish, at Opelousas
in October 1822. Jean-Pierre's daughter Geneviève married Joseph, son of
Acadians Basile
LANDRY & Marie Anne MIRE
of Côte Gelée, near present-day Broussard, at St. Martinville, St. Martin
Parish, in October 1814. ...
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:65-66,
2-A:91, 2-B:89.
Second Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1787
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean-Louis
BODIN
Settled: St.-Gabriel, present-day Iberville
Parish; Attakapas District, present-day St. Martin
& Lafayette parishes
Comments: Jean-Louis BODIN, son of Pierre
BAUDIN and Jeanne MASSONET of Noirmoutier, France, married Françoise of St. Malo, France, daughter of Grégoire
DOIRON and Hélène AUCOIN,
natives of Acadia exiled in France, at St.-Gabriel on the river in January 1787.
(Grégoire had died in France; Hélène remarried to Louis DANTIN in France
and sailed with him and daughter
Françoise on L'Amitié, which reached New Orleans in November
1785.) Jean-Louis and Françoise settled in the Attakapas District by 1797. Their
son Grégoire married Pélagie, daughter of René LE BLANC and Marguerite TRAHAN,
at St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, in November 1816. ...
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:68-69,
2-A:91.
Acadian connection: DOIRON, HÉBERT, LE BLANC,
LANDRY
BOGARD
Pronunciation: BO-gard
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROY
Comments:
BOISSAC
Pronunciation: BWAH-sock
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
BOLOT
Pronunciation: BO-low
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
BONAVENTURE
Pronunciation: bo-na-VEN-chur
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DAVID
Comments:
BONHAM
Pronunciation: BON-um
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX
Comments:
BONIN
Pronunciation: BOH-nay
Origin: French Creole from Mobile, Alabama--Alibamon
Arrived in Louisiana: c1764
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Antoine, père, Antoine,
fils, Jean-Louis, Joseph, Paul BONIN
Settled: Fausse Pointe, Attakapas
District, present-day St. Martin & Iberia parishes
Acadian connection: BOURGEOIS, BREAUX, BROUSSARD, COMEAUX,
DOIRON, DUGAS, HÉBERT, LOUVIERE, PRINCE,
THIBODEAUX
Comments: In the Treaty of Paris of February
1763, ending the French and Indian War, France ceded her territory east of
the Isle of Orléans, long part of French colonial Louisiana, to Britain. Antoine BONIN dit Delphine of
Grenoble, France, and Marie TELLIER, residents of Mobile, emigrated to New
Orleans in either 1763 or 1764 with other families from the region to escape
British rule. These
French Creoles from Mobile and the Alabama River valley, known as
Alibamons in Louisiana, were among the earliest settlers of the prairie region west of the
Atchafalaya Basin. Spanish officials counted Antoine BONIN and his
family at Attakapas in April 1766. They were living at Fausse Pointe on
lower Bayou Teche, present-day Iberia Parish, not far from the first
Acadians who had come to the area the year before. The BONINs, in fact, may
have moved to the Teche valley just ahead of the Acadians. At least four
of Antoine BONIN's sons, all born at Mobile, started families of their own in
what became St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion,
and Iberia parishes: Jean-Louis married an Acadian girl born in exile in Maryland, Marguerite, daughter of Olivier
PRINCE and Marguerite BOUDREAUX,
in April 1771; Jean-Louis died suddenly at his
home at Fausse Pointe in December 1795. Antoine, fils, married
French Creole Madeleine PREVOST of Pointe Coupée in January 1779. Joseph married Euphrosine, daughter of French Creole Pierre BOREL of Dinan, France,
and Catherine TOUPARD of Illinois. Paul dit Dauphine,
born in c1758, married Marie-Louise, daughter of French Creole Jacques FOSTIN and Françoise VIEN of Illinois; Paul died
in December 1803,
age 45; his
succession record is dated 12 May 1808. Their sister Geneviève married François, son of Joseph PREVOST and
Madeleine MAYEUX of Pointe Coupée;
François probably was the brother of Geneviève's brother Antoine's wife
Madeleine. The descendants of the BONIN brothers married a number of Acadians and created a prominent family in South Louisiana.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:72-77, 1-B:67-72;
[map]
BONVILLAIN
Pronunciation: bonh-veh-LAIN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY, HEBERT, LAMBERT,
MOUTON, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
BOONE
Pronunciation: BOON
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, BOUDREAUX
Comments:
BOOTE
Pronunciation: BOOT, boo-TAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments: Is this a variation of the French
Creole name BOUTTE?
BORDELON
Pronunciation: BORD-eh-lon
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: c1728
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Laurent
(Nicolas), Antoine, Nicolas BORDELON
Settled: New Orleans; Pointe Coupee; La Prairie
Basse, Grand Louis, Bayou Chicot, Opelousas District; Natchitoches Post;
Avoyelles prairies
Acadian connection: HÉBERT, MOUTON
Comments:
Sources: West, Atlas of LA Surnames,
33-34.
BOREL
Pronunciation: bo-REL
Origin: French Creole?
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURGEOIS, DOUCET, HÉBERT, PREJEAN
Comments:
BORNE
Pronunciation: BORN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, HENRY
Comments:
BOSSIER
Pronunciation: BO-see-yay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DOUCET,
GUIDRY, PELLERIN
Comments:
BOUANCHAUD
Pronunciation: bwain-show
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
BOUDELOCHE
Pronunciation: BOO-duh-loash
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection:
BERGERON, HENRY, ROBICHAUX,
THIBODEAUX, TRAHAN
Comments:
BOUDREAUX
Pronunciation: BOO-drow, boo-DROW
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BOUGERE
Pronunciation: boo-GARE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BOUILLON/BOULLION
Pronunciation: BOO-yon
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BOULEE
Pronunciation: boo-LAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: SAVOIE
Comments:
BOULET
Pronunciation: boo-LAY, boo-LET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD,
HEBERT, LANDRY, MIRE, TRAHAN
Comments:
BOURDIER
Pronunciation: BORE-dee-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY, TRAHAN
Comments:
BOURET
Pronunciation: BOO-ray
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX
Comments:
BOURG/BOURQUE
Pronunciation: BORK, BORGH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BOURGEOIS
Pronunciation: boosh-WAH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BOUTIN
Pronunciation: boo-TANH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BOUTTÉ
Pronunciation: boo-TAY, BOOT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, HÉBERT?
Comments:
BOUVIER
Pronunciation: BOO-vee-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection:
PART, THERIOT
Comments:
BOYER
Pronunciation: boy-YAY, BOY-ur
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection:
AUCOIN, BABIN, BERNARD, GAUTREAUX, PREJEAN, VINCENT
Comments:
BRACKEN/BRACKIN
Pronunciation: BRAK-in
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
BRASSEAUX
Pronunciation: BRAH-soh, BRASS-oh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BREAUX
Pronunciation: BROH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BRIGNAC
Pronunciation: bring-yak
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DOUCET
Comments:
BROSIER
Pronunciation: BRO-see-aye
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX
Comments:
BROUSSARD
Pronunciation: BREW-sard
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
BRUN/LEBRUN
Pronunciation: BRUH, luh-BRUH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection:
Comments:
BRUNET
Pronunciation: broo-NET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCEMENT, BOUDREAUX, HENRY
Comments:
BRUNO
Pronunciation: BROO-no
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT, HENRY, LEGER
Comments:
BUJOLE -- see BIJEAU/BUJOLE
BUDD
Pronunciation: BUD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BUNDICK
Pronunciation: BUN-dick
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BURLEIGH
Pronunciation: BUR-lee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, CORMIER
Comments:
BUQUOI
Pronunciation: boo-KWOY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
BUSHNELL
Pronunciation: bush-NELL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN
Comments:
BUTAUD
Pronunciation: boo-TOAD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD
Comments:
CADIERE
Pronunciation: cah-DEE-air
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROGER
Comments:
CAILLIER
Pronunciation: kye-YAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
CAILLOUET
Pronunciation: cal-you-AYE, cal-you-WET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEBLANC, MICHEL
Comments:
CALAIS
Pronunciation: kah-LAY, KAL-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY
Comments:
CALLIGAN/COLLIGAN
Pronunciation: CAL-eh-gun, CALL-eh-gun, KOL-eh-gun
Origin: Irish-French
Arrived in Louisiana: 1785
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Thomas CALEGAN
Settled: Bayou des Écores; Bayou Lafourche valley
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, CHIASSON, LANDRY,
PRINCE
Comments: For information on the ancestry of
Thomas CALEGAN, see the footnote for his first wife,
Marie-Marguerite LEPRINCE.
CAMBRE
Pronunciation: cawm
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
CAMPOS
Pronunciation: cawm-po
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, COMEAUX, DUGAS,
HÉBERT, TRAHAN
Comments:
CANCIENNE
Pronunciation: CAWN-see-ain
Origin: Italian Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1786
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Pietro CANCIENI
Settled: Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche
parishes
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, BERGERON, BLANCHARD,
BOUDREAUX, BREAUX, DELAUNE, LANDRY, THERIOT
Comments: Pietro, son of Giorgio CANCIENI
and Margherita Catharina YEARNE of Venice, Italy, married Jeanne-Marguerite,
called Marguerite, daughter of Acadian Joseph
LANDRY and his second wife
Jeanne-Madeleine-Marie VARANGUE, at Ascension in February 1786.
Marguerite, a native of Cherbourg, France, had come to Louisiana from France
in September 1785 aboard Le St.-Rémi with three of her younger
siblings, all of them orphans. Pietro and Marguerite settled on upper
Bayou Lafourche in what became Assumption and Lafourche parishes.
Pietro's name evolved into Pierre CANCIENNE in francophone Louisiana.
...
Sources: BRDR, 2:172; Hébert, D.,
Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 60-61.
CANTRELLE
Pronunciation: kan-TRELL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, GAUDET, LANDRY
Comments:
CAPDEVILLE
Pronunciation: KAP-de-vill
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AROSTEGUY, BOUDREAUX,
BRASSEAUX, CLOUATRE, MELANÇON
Comments:
CARLIN
Pronunciation: KAR-lin, kar-LANH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURGEOIS
Comments:
CARMOUCHE
Pronunciation: kar-MOOSH
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1720s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean
CARMOUCHE dit Lorrain
Settled: Mobile; New Orleans; Pointe Coupee
Parish; St. John the Baptist Parish; St. Martin and Lafayette parishes
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BERNARD,
BRASSEAUX, BREAUX, LE BLANC, RICHARD
Comments: Jean CARMOUCHE dit Lorrain
married Anne CHENET, lived at Mobile, then part of French Louisiana, in the
1720s, and settled at New Orleans in the 1730s. (Jean's dit may
give an idea of where he was born.) They had at least four sons:
Jean-Baptiste, Claude, Pierre, and Joseph. Older sons Jean-Baptiste
and Claude remained at New Orleans, but younger sons Pierre and Joseph moved
upriver to the French-Creole enclave of Pointe-Coupée by the early 1760s.
One of Pierre's sons created a western branch of the family by moving to the
Atakapas District in the late 1780s. Another of Pierre's sons settled
at Ascension on the Acadian Coast. Pierre followed his son François to
the western prairies:
Jean-Baptiste, born at Mobile in c1727, married Marguerite
LARRUE probably at New Orleans. Jean-Baptiste died at New Orleans in
December 1802, age 75.
Claude, born at New Orleans in c1734, married Barbe PIGEOLE
or PUGEOL probably at New Orleans. Son Jean le jeune, also
called Jean-Baptiste dit Laurent (whose godfather was his
grandfather Jean dit Lorrain CARMOUCHE) was born in the city in May
1754, Pierre-Philippe in May 1756, Nicolas in September 1760, Louis in March
1763, and François in April 1765. Claude died at New Orleans in
October 1774; he was only 40 years old and, according to the priest who
recorded his burial, was "native of this parish." Pierre-Philippe died
at New Orleans, a 38-year-old bachelor, in June 1794. Jean-Baptiste
dit Laurent followed his cousin François, son of Pierre, to the Atakapas
District and settled on Bayou Teche. Jean Baptiste dit Laurent
died at cousin François's home at Carencro in March 1806; the priest who
recorded his burial said that Laurent died at age 59, but he probably was
51.
Pierre, born at "Isle St. Rose" probably in the late 1730s,
married Geneviève ROUSSEAU of Pointe-Coupée at Pointe-Coupée in November
1761. The priest who recorded Pierre's marriage noted that his father
Jean was deceased at the time of the wedding. Pierre and Geneviève
lived at St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the Upper German Coast before
returning to Pointe-Coupée, where son Pierre, fils was born in
September 1765. They had at least four sons at Pointe-Coupée:
François, born in April 1768, Narcisse in July 1770, Jean-Baptiste in July
1772, and Hippolyte baptized, age unrecorded, in December 1774.
Pierre, père remarried to Françoise GUEHO, widow of Pierre BONHOMME,
at Pointe-Coupée, in December 1778. François, by
Pierre, père's first
wife, married Françoise-Julienne, daughter of Acadian Pierre
ARCENEAUX
of Atakapas, at St.-Jacques on the Lower Acadian Coast in May 1787.
François and Françoise settled at Carencro in the Atakapas District near
Françoise's family and established a western branch of the family.
Their son François Angelle died at Atakapas "of a 'fluxe de sangre
(literally, bloody flu)" at age 7 months in August 1790, Agerin was born in
March 1805, Cyprien in July 1807 but died at age 4 in October 1811, Pierre
Venant died 8 days after his birth in November 1809, and a second Pierre
Venant was born in February 1811 but died at age 3 in July 1814. They
also had a son named François Maximilien, called Maximilien. François
served as a captain of the local militia in the 1810s. Maximilien
married Adélaïde, daughter of Acadian Pierre
BREAUX, at the St.
Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1821. Agerin
married Mélanie, daughter of Acadian Pierre Grégoire
RICHARD, at the Grand Coteau
church, St. Landry Parish, in August 1824. Meanwhile, Françoise's
sister Hélène married Françoise's brother Alexandre
ARCENEAUX
at Ascension on the Acadian Coast in March 1802. Narcisse, by Pierre,
père's first wife, married Françoise, daughter of Martin BOCK, at
Pointe-Coupée in February 1792. Their son Narcisse, fils was
baptized at Pointe-Coupée, age 8 months, in November 1798, Martin was
baptized at age 3 months in September 1800, a second Narcisse, fils
was born in February 1802, Louis in September 1805, François le jeune
was baptized at age 2 months in June 1807, and Vincent died, age unrecorded,
in September 1819. Hippolyte, by Pierre, père's first wife,
married Madeleine, daughter of Acadian Simon
LE BLANC,
at Ascension in July 1805. Their son François Hippolyte was born at
Ascension in July 1806. Pierre, père had followed son François
to the Atakapas District and died at François's home at Carencro in December
1822; the priest who recorded his burial said that Pierre, père died
at age 88.
Joseph married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre DUCOTE,
at Pointe-Coupée in August 1764. Their son Joseph, fils was
born at Pointe-Coupée in January 1774 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1777,
and Clément was born in January 1778. Daughter Elisa moved from
Pointe-Coupée to Avoyelles and married a GUYOT from Avoyelles at Opelousas
in January 1803.
The family's name also is spelled Camus, Carmouche, Carmuche,
Carmus, Charmouche.
Sources: BRDR, vols. 1b, 2, 3; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7.
CARRIÈRE
Pronunciation: KARE-ee-air
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, DOUCET
Comments:
CART
Pronunciation: KART
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: CHIASSON
Comments:
CARUTHERS/CREDEUR
Pronunciation: kuh-RUH-thers/CRAY-dur,
cray-DURE
Origin: Anglo Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: early 1790s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: William
CARUTHERs of North Carolina, & sons James, Thomas, & David of New
Jersey
Settled: Attakapas District; Carencro, Grand
Coteau, Vermilionville (now Lafayette), & Church Point, present-day Lafayette, St. Landry,
& Acadia
parishes
Acadian connection: BABINEAUX, BERNARD,
BOUDREAUX, BOURG, BREAUX, BROUSSARD, CHIASSON, COMEAUX, CORMIER, DOUCET, DUGAS, HÉBERT, HENRY, LEBLANC, MARTIN,
MELANÇON, MOUTON, PREJEAN, RICHARD, SAVOIE, THIBODEAUX, TRAHAN
Comments: William CARUTHERS of North
Carolina married Elizabeth, daughter of ____ BICKHAM and Elizabeth HAMTON,
at Deptford Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, in June 1761;
Elizabeth's mother likely was a widow at the time of the marriage; evidently
the bride was a native of New Jersey. Their son James married
Elizabeth SAUNDERS at Deptford in May 1785. William and Elizabeth also
had sons named Thomas, born probably in New Jersey in c1764; and David in c1766.
They also had two daughters, Sarah, born in c1773, probably in New Jersey;
Mary, birth date unrecorded; and Marguerite, birth date unrecorded.
Sometime in the early 1790s, the family moved to
nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then emigrated to Spanish Louisiana, where
they settled at Carencro in the Attakapas District. Daughters Sarah and Mary remained in New
Jersey, where they married Richard APES and Peter SUTTER, respectively.
James and his wife Elizabeth, meanwhile, resettled in New York
state, where their son James Samuel, called Samuel, was born in c1792; and James, Jr., in October
1796; they also had a daughter named Sally, also called Sarah, born in New Jersey; and another
son, William. During the 1810s and early 1820s, James, Sarah, and
their families joined brothers Thomas and David and sister Marguerite and
their families on the western prairies of South Louisiana.
In Louisiana, William, the progenitor of
the family in Louisiana, died at his home
at Carencro in April 1808; he was 68 years old. By then, two of his
sons, David and Thomas, and daughter Marguerite, had established families of
their own in the Carencro area.
David married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Eulalie, daughter
of Acadians Joseph DUGAS and
his first wife Anastasie
HENRY and widow of Joseph
PREJEAN, probably at Carencro in
October 1793; Isabelle, a native of St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, France, came
to Louisiana with her father, stepmother, and eight siblings aboard La
Bergère, the second of the Seven ships, in August 1785; she was one of
the few passengers from her ship to move from upper Bayou Lafourche to the
western prairies, where she married her
first husband at Attakapas in June 1786 when she was age 20; they had at
least one son and a daughter; Isabelle was age 25 at the time of her remarriage;
David would have had to convert to Roman Catholicism to marry her; he was
age about 27 when they married. Their son Julien was
born at Carencro in December 1796; David Onésime, called Onésime, in June 1799; daughter Marie
Arthémise in November 1801; son John Marcellin, called Marcellin, in March
1804 but died at age 2 in March 1806; Jean Arvillien, called Arvillien, was
born in October 1806; and
Louis in January 1809; they also had an older daughter named Louise. David's wife Isabelle
died at Carencro in September 1810, age 42. Louise
married François, son of Acadians Jean
BERNARD and Marguerite
BROUSSARD of Carencro,
probably at Carencro in April 1812; sadly, Louise died at Carencro in March
1813, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth. David remarried to Marguerite Lise, daughter of
Acadians Jean SAVOIE and
Marguerite BOUTIN and widow
of Charles PECK, probably at Carencro in November 1813. Their daughter
Marie Silvanie was born probably at Carencro in October 1814; Marguerite
Louisa in May 1818; an unnamed son died at birth in March 1821; Amelanie was
born in February 1824; and Marie Mélaïde, called Mélaïde, was born
posthumously in July 1826, nine months after her father's death. Julien, by his
father's first wife, married Céleste, daughter of Acadians Sylvestre
MOUTON and Susanne
COMEAUX, probably at Carencro
in October 1818. Their daughter Marguerite Arthémise was born probably
at Carencro in c1817, Marie Arthémise in September 1819, and son Julien, fils
in December 1820. On the same day
in October 1818 and probably at the same place, Onésime, also by
his father's first wife, married
Marguerite Emerente, daughter of Acadians Frédéric
MOUTON and Anastasie
CORMIER. Céleste and
Marguerite Emerente MOUTON
were first cousins. Marie Arthémise married Jean-Baptiste, son of
French Creole Jean-Baptiste NERAUT
and Acadian Félicité PREJEAN,
at Grand Coteau in December 1819. David died at two
o'clock in the morning on 31 October 1825 probably at Carencro; he was age
59 or 60 at the time of his death; his succession records were filed at the
Opelousas courthouse in January 1826 and August 1827. Onésime remarried to Marie Sidalise, daughter of Acadians Dominique
PREJEAN and Marie
SAVOIE, at Grand Coteau in
January 1827. Their son Louis Damonville was born near Grand Coteau in
October 1827 but died at age 6 in August 1834, daughter Marie was born in April 1829 but died at age 1 in April
1830, son Pierre Neuville was born in May 1831, Onésime Dupréville in
February 1833 but may have died at age 7 in September 1840, Charles Wilson
was born in September 1835, daughter Marie Lezime or Lezima in October 1836
but died at age 6 in August 1843, Marie Célestine or Céleste was born in
March 1841 but may have died at age 3 in August 1844, and Marie Coralie was
born in July 1843. Jean Arvillien, by his father's first wife, married Marie
Louise, daughter of Acadians Jean
THIBODEAUX and Marie Louise
BROUSSARD, at Grand Coteau in October 1827. Their daughter
Aurelia was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1828, son Jean Aurelien
in November 1830, Euclide in January 1833, David in April 1835, and Onésime
was baptized at age 2 in September 1839. Julien's daughter Marguerite Arthémise married Onésime, son of Acadians
Jean-Baptiste RICHARD and
Élisabeth CORMIER
and widower of Delphine
THIBODEAUX, at Vermilionville
in May 1837. Julien, Jr. married Eliza or Elisa, daughter of Acadians Alexandre
BABINEAUX and Marie Cléonise
DUGAS, at Grand Coteau in
July 1843. Their son Aurelien was born in December 1845, daughter
Emelina in January 1849 but died at age 1 in September 1850, and son
Thelesmar was born in August 1851; they also had an older daughter named
Marie Émelie. Julien, Sr. remarried to Marguerite Azélie, called
Azélie, daughter of Acadians Jean
BERNARD and Marguerite
BROUSSARD
and widow of Alexandre
GUILBEAU, at Grand Coteau in March 1845. Mélaïde, by her
father's second wife, married Jacob CARUTHERS, perhaps a cousin, in a civil
ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1846. Louis, by his father's
first wife, married Elisa, daughter of Acadian Augustin
BOUDREAUX and German Creole
Françoise RITTER and widow of Jean Achille
PREJEAN, at Grand Coteau in
December 1849; Louis was age 40 at the time of the wedding, so one wonders
if this was a remarriage for him as well. His and Elisa's son Louis D.
was born in c1852 but died at age 6 in January 1858, and daughter Aselie was
born in June 1855. In September 1850, the federal census taker in
Lafayette Parish counted 7 slaves--5 males and 2 females, all black, ranging
in age from 10 to 1--on Julien, Jr.'s farm in the parish's Western District.
In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 4
slaves--2 males and 2 females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 25--on
Onésime's farm in the parish. The same census taker counted 10
slaves--5 males and 5 females, all of them black, ranging in age from 35 to
2--on Louis's farm next to older brother Onésime. The same census
taker counted 20 slaves--10 males and 10 females, 13 blacks and 7 mulattoes,
ranging in age from 70 to 2--on Julien, Sr.'s plantation next to younger
brother Louis's farm. Julien, Sr.'s daughter Marie
Arthémise, by his first wife, married first cousin Onésime, son of Jean-Baptiste
NERAUT and her
paternal aunt Marie Arthémise CARUTHERS, at Grand Coteau in December 1852.
Julien, Sr. died near Grand Coteau in December 1853; he was 57 years old. Julien, Jr. remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of
Anglo American James BRUCE or
BROUSSE and Acadian Marie
RICHARD, at Grand Coteau in
June 1854. Their son Julien III was born in February 1856, Louis in
October 1857 but died at age 1 in November 1858, and daughter Marie Josette
was born in December 1858 but died at age 1 in December 1859. Louis
died near Grand Coteau in May 1856; he was only 47 years old.
Onésime's daughter Marie Coralie, by his second wife, married Marcel Galbert,
son of Acadian Simon Méance
BROUSSARD and French Creole Octavine
BONIN, at Grand Coteau in
October 1859. Julien, Jr. died near Grand Coteau in November 1859; he
was only 38 years old; his succession record was filed at the Opelousas
courthouse within a week of his burial. Julien, Jr.'s daughter Marie
Émelie married Dejean, son of Acadians Jean Lessaint
DUGAS and Marguerite Azélie
BROUSSARD, at Vermilionville
in May 1860. Sometime in 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry
Parish counted 7 slaves--2 males and 5 females, all black, ranging in age
from 44 to 3--on Onésime's farm in the parish. The same federal census
taker counted 15 slaves--11 males and 4 females, 6 blacks and 9 mulattoes,
ranging in age from 50 to 2--on Margaret A CARUTHER's farm in the parish;
this likely was Julien, Sr.'s second wife and widow, Marguerite Azélie
BERNARD. The same
federal census taker counted 2 slaves--a 16-year-old black males and an
11-year-old black female--in Mélaïde CARUTHER's household next to Margaret
A.; this could have been Julien, Sr.'s youngest half-sister, who likely was
a widow as well.
Thomas
was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith in June 1804, at age 40, on the eve of his
marriage to Rosalie Clara, daughter of French Canadian Jean-Baptiste JEANNOT
and Acadian Marguerite HÉBERT,
probably at Carencro. Their son Joseph was born probably at
Carencro in November 1805; daughter Marie Clémence, called Clémence, in September 1807; and
son Hypolite in February 1822.
Thomas, a
widower, died in Lafayette Parish in November 1822; the Vermilionville
priest who recorded his burial said that Thomas was 50 years old when he
died, but he likely was closer to 58. Clémence
married Onésime, son of Anglo American William GILCHRIST and Acadian
Marguerite SAVOIE, at
Vermilionville in June 1825. Joseph died in Lafayette Parish
in November 1827; he was only 22 years old and probably still a bachelor at
the time of his death.
Marguerite married Jean, son of Acadians Augustin
BOUDREAUX and Judith
MARTIN of Opelousas, probably
at Carencro in September 1806.
James, Sr.'s son
Samuel married Victoire, daughter of French Canadian Augustin
ROYER and Acadian Victoire
CORMIER of nearby La Prairie Basse,
at Carencro in February 1816, the first indication that this line of the
family had moved from the northeastern United States to South Louisiana.
Samuel and Victoire's son Samuel, Jr. was born probably at Carencro in March 1817; Victorin in July 1818;
Guillaume dit William in March 1820; Onésime in January 1823; an
unnamed child died 13 days after his or her birth in December 1824; daughter
Marie Caroline, called Caroline, was baptized at age 2 months in July 1826; son Sosthène
was born in June 1828; daughter Uranie was baptized at age 12 months in July
1831, on the eve of her death; son Edmond was born in August 1832; Césaire
was baptized at Vermilionville at age 1 in April 1836; and another unnamed
child died 2 days after his or her birth in January 1837. James, Jr. was
baptized a Roman Catholic in November 1816 at age 22. James, Sr.'s son
William evidently married French Creole Marie Jeanne
CARRIÈRE in the 1810s and
fathered a son named Célestin William. James, Jr. married Marcelline,
also called Carmelite and Émilie,
daughter of Acadian Charles LEBLANC
and Spanish Creole Marie QUINTERO, at Grand Coteau in July 1819, and
remarried to German Creole Émilie HOFFPAUIR a few years later. James,
Jr.'s daughter Céleste, by his first wife, was born near Grand Coteau in
August 1820, and daughter Arvenie, by his second wife, was baptized at Vermilionville
in April 1826. James, Sr.'s daughter Sally married
fellow Anglo American James JENKINS of Maryland in a civil ceremony in St.
Landry Parish in September 1822 and settled in Lafayette Parish, where her
succession record, which called her Sarah, was filed at the Vermilionville
courthouse in August 1838; one wonders if it was post-mortem. James,
Sr.'s son William remarried to fellow Anglo American Margaret Rosana
HAMILTON, widow of ____
CARPENTER of Vincennes
County, Indiana, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1824. James, Sr.'s succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in
October 1830; one wonders if it was post-mortem. A succession record
for William CARUTHERS was
filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in September 1833;
one wonders if this was James, Sr.'s son William and if it was a post-mortem
document. James, Jr.'s daughter Céleste by his first wife, married
Joseph, son of Acadian Joseph
MELANÇON and French Creole Marie
LEDOUX, in a civil ceremony
in Lafayette Parish in May 1836. Samuel's son Victorin married Elizabeth, daughter
of Anglo Americans Isaac HALLOWAY and Adelaide
BAIRD, in a civil ceremony in
Lafayette Parish in July 1837. Their daughter Eliza was baptized at Vermilionville at age 2 months in February 1840,
Marie Azélie, called Azélie, was born in December
1841, son Joseph Haynes in January 1845, daughter Marie Victoria in July
1847, and Elvina in February 1850. Evidently Samuel's son Samuel, Jr., called Samuel John
by the recording priest, married
Julienne CLÉMENT, probably a
French Creole, in St. Landry Parish. Their son Samuel Césaire was born
near Mermentau in December 1837, daughter Marie Zelienne in January 1845, Marguerite Euremie in March 1847,
son Jean Neuville in January 1849, daughter Elodie in July 1851, and Anatalie
near Church Point in February 1853. William's son Celestin William, by
his first wife,
married Léocadie, daughter of French Creoles François
OZENNE and Chalinette
DEBLANC, at St. Martinville
in December 1839. Samuel,
Sr.'s son William married Marie Irénée, daughter of French Creole
Louis CLÉMENT and German Creole Marianne
STELLY, in a civil ceremony in
Lafayette Parish in July 1841. Their son Lucien was born in May 1842,
daughter Marie Marianne in March 1844, son Ursin in June 1846, Israel in
February 1849, William, Jr. in January 1851, Athanase
near Church Point in March 1853, and Joseph Lessin in February 1855.
Samuel, Sr.'s daughter Caroline married Anglo American Charles
HALLOWAY in a civil ceremony
in Lafayette Parish in January 1844; one wonders if Charles was a brother of
Caroline's brother Victorin's wife Elizabeth. Caroline's son Cyprien
was born near Grand Coteau in February 1853; the priest who recorded the
boy's baptism did not record the father's name. Samuel, Sr.'s son
Onésime married Oliva, daughter of Isleño
Creole Balthazar
PLACENTIA or
PLAISANCE, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January
1845, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in February
1851. Their son Ignace was born in December 1845, Horace in
September 1847, daughter Azelina in February 1850, son Aurelien in
January 1852, Joseph Arvilien in November 1854, daughter Marie Anaïs in
September 1857, and Henriette Adeïde in January 1860. Samuel, Sr.'s
son Victorin
died near Grand Coteau in September 1850; he was only 32 years old; a
succession record for Samuel CARUTHERS, husband of Isabelle
ALLOWAY, which would have
been Victorin, was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in June 1855. Samuel, Sr.'s son Sosthène married Marie Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of Acadians Gerard
BABINEAUX and Eugènie
BOURQUE, at Grand Coteau in
February 1851. Their daughter Marie Amelida was born in June 1855,
Marie Eugènie in September 1856, Marie Victoire in May 1858, and Célestine in May 1860. James, Jr.'s daughter Céleste, by his first wife,
remarried to Onésime, fils,
son of Acadian Onésime TRAHAN
and French Canadian Émilie PRIMEAUX and widower of Adeline
PLAISANCE, at Grand
Coteau in January 1854. Samuel, Sr. died in Lafayette Parish in June
1855; the priest who recorded his burial said that Samuel died "at age over
60 yrs."; he probably was closer to 63; his succession record was filed at
the Vermilionville courthouse in July. Samuel, Jr.'s son Samuel Césaire
may have married Acadian Marie Julie, called Julie,
COMEAUX in a civil ceremony
in St. Landry Parish in January 1856; the parish clerk who recorded the
marriage called the groom simply Samuel but did not give the bride's or the
groom's parents' names. Their son Joseph Olivier was born near Grand
Coteau in November 1856, and daughter Marie Odelia near Church Point in
January 1858. Samuel, Sr.'s son William remarried to Celima, daughter
of Acadian Hippolyte THIBODEAUX
and German Creole Arsène
BRANDT, in a civil
ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1856. Their son Joseph was
born near Grand Coteau in April 1858. Samuel, Sr.'s daughter Caroline remarried to Joseph, son of
Acadian Onésime TRAHAN
and French Canadian Émilie PRIMEAUX, at Church Point in November 1858.
Victorin's daughter Marie Azélie married Acadian Augustave, called Gustave,
BREAUX in a civil ceremony in
St. Landry Parish in December 1858, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand
Coteau church the following March. Samuel, Sr.'s son Césaire married Célestine, daughter, perhaps, of Acadian
Anselme DOUCET and his second
wife Adélaïde VENABLE, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June
1859. Their son Césaire, Jr. was born near Church Point in November
1860. Eliza, perhaps Victorin's daughter, married Acadian Joseph
BREAUX in a civil ceremony in
St. Landry Parish in July 1859; the parish clerk who recorded the marriage
did not give the bride's or the groom's parents' names.
Sarah's "natural son" John was baptized at
Grand Coteau in February 1827 at age 9, so she, too, had joined the family
on the western prairies. John, called Jean by the
recording priest, married Céleste, daughter of Acadians Jean
BOURG and Marguerite
RICHARD, at Vermilionville in
May 1836; Céleste died probably at Carencro in April 1839, age 31.
John, again
called Jean by the recording priest, remarried to Adélaïde, daughter of
Acadian Charles HÉBERT and
French Creole Pélagie DUMESNIL, at Vermilionville in February 1840.
Their daughter Élisabeth was born in February 1841, Céleste in July 1843 but
died at age 4 in August 1847, son Louis was born in May 1842, and Jean
Joseph in April 1849. John seems to have remarried again--this would
have been his third marriage--to Acadian Euphémie
CHIASSON
in c1855 or 1856, his second wife having died in January 1854 at age 47.
John and Euphémie's son Ignace was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1857,
Edgar in February 1858, Eucharis in May 1859 but died at age 1 in June 1860,
and an unnamed son died at birth in December 1860. John's daughter
Élisabeth, by his second wife, married Hippolyte, son of Acadians Baptiste
CHIASSON and Julie
DUGAS and widower of Divine
NEZAT and Sidalise
MORVANT, in Lafayette Parish
in June 1859. In late June 1860, the federal census taker in Lafayette
Parish counted 4 slaves--1 male and 3 females, 2 blacks & 2 mulattoes,
ranging in age from 21 years to 11 months--on John's farm in the parish.
In South Louisiana, during the antebellum period, the name CARUTHERS evolved into CREDEUR,
a gallicized form of the name, but the older, Anglo-American version (also spelled KARUTHERs in the early days) was retained by some members of the family.
Most descendants of William CARUTHERS of North Carolina, however, use the gallicized form of
his surname.
Not everyone who carried the name during the
antebellum period were descendants of William of North Carolina. Margaret L.
CARUTHERS, parents unrecorded, married fellow
Anglo American Alexander NELSON, whose parents' names also were unrecorded,
in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in August 1835. On the same
day in August 1835, Mary M. CARUTHERS, parents unrecorded, married Lewis
CYPHERS in a civil ceremony
in St. Landry Parish. One suspects that Margaret L. and
Mary M. were sisters Were they descendants of William CARUTHERS, or did
they spring from a different line of the family? Charles William
CARUTHERS, described by the recording priest as a couleur libre, or
free black, died near St. Martinville in October 1855, age 56.
Sources: 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave
Schedules, Lafayette & St. Landry parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave
Schedules, Lafayette & St. Landry parishes; Hébert, D., Southwest LA
Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6.
CASTILLE
Pronunciation: kass-TEEL
Origin: Spanish Creole ...
Maó-Mahón
(Port Mahon), Minorca, Balearic
Islands, Spain
Arrived in Louisiana: July 1767
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: José del
CASTILLO/Joseph CASTILLE, Joseph-Ignace CASTILLE, Pierre CASTILLE
Settled: St.-Gabriel, present-day Iberville
Parish; Attakapas District, present-day St. Martin and Lafayette parishes;
Opelousas District, present-day St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: BABIN, BERNARD, BIJEAUX,
BOUDREAUX, BROUSSARD, CORMIER, GUILBEAU, LEBLANC, MARTIN, POTIER, PREJEAN,
RICHARD, SAVOY, SONNIER, THIBODEAUX, TRAHAN
Comments: According to the Acadian Memorial in
St. Martinville,
José del CASTILLO, born at Port Mahon, Minorca, in the Balearic
Islands off the coast of Spain in c1735, was Acadian. However, Acadian
genealogist Stephen A. White finds no evidence that Joseph CASTILLE,
as he came to be called, lived in greater Acadia. That he married an
Acadian there can be no doubt. During the late 1750s, in Maryland, he
wed Rose-Osite, called Osite, LANDRY,
widow of Joseph BROUSSARD;
she was an Acadian probably from Pigiguit who had been deported to the British colony
in 1755. José/Joseph and Osite had four children in Maryland:
Marguerite in c1756, Marie-Marthe in c1761, Joseph-Ignace in c1763, and
Pierre. Colonial authorities counted the family at Upper Marlborough
in July 1763; strangely, son Pierre was not counted with them, so he may
have been born after the "census."
In July 1767, Joseph and his family, now including Pierre,
came to Louisiana with other exiles from Maryland and followed their fellow
passengers to the new Acadian settlement of St.-Gabriel d'Iberville on the
river above New Orleans. There, Joseph and Osite had more children:
Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, born in September 1768, Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, in
c1771, and Emmanuel, called Manuel, in c1774.
Spanish officials counted the family on the "right bank
ascending" at St.-Gabriel in March 1777. Soon afterwards, Joseph took
his family to the Attakapas District, where they settled at L'Anse de la
Pointe, or La Pointe, on upper Bayou Teche near
present-day Breaux Bridge (one wonders if they went there to be closer to
Osite's BROUSSARD "kin"). Joseph and Osite did not return to the river.
Daughter Marie-Marthe married Germain, son of Acadian Jean
TRAHAN, at Attakapas in
February 1781, remarried to Laurent, son of French Creole Louis-Armand
DUCREST of Pointe Coupée, at Attakapas in May 1787, and remarried again, to
Auguste, son of Acadian Augustin
BIJEAU, at Attakapas in May 1807. Son Joseph-Ignace married
Scholastique, daughter of French surgeon Antoine BORDA of Attakapas, in
March 1785; Scholastique's mother was an Acadian, Marguerite
MARTIN dit
Barnabé of Chignecto. Daughter Madeleine married Joseph
RICHARD at Attakapas in February 1794; they
settled at L'Anse on Bayou Teche. Son Baptiste married Julie-Françoise, daughter of German
Creole François STELLY, at Opelousas in July 1797; they settled at
Carencro, on the northern edge of the Attakapas District. Manuel
married Félicité, another daughter of François STELLY, at Opelousas in May
1800; they settled probably near Grand Coteau, at the southeastern
edge of the Opelousas District. Son Pierre and daughter Marguerite
probably did not marry.
Meanwhile, "Joseph of Port
Mahon," as he was called by the priest who recorded his burial, died at Attakapas in October
1784, age 50. Thanks to the fecundity of three of
his sons, the family became a large one on the western prairies.
Sources: BRDR, vol. 1b;
Hébert, D., Southwest LA
Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Jehn, Acadian
Exiles in the Colonies, 155; Wall of Names, 14; West, Atlas of
LA Surnames, 45-46, 157-58; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 104-05.
CASTRO
Pronunciation: KASS-trow
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
CEDOTAL
Pronunciation: SED -uh-tall
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT
Comments:
CHACHERE
Pronunciation: SASH-uh-ree, SASH-uh-ray
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by late 1780s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Louis-Dominique
CHACHERE
Settled: Pointe Coupee; Attakapas District; Opelousas District, now
St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: BERNARD, DAVID, GUIDRY, PITRE
Comments: Family legend says that Louis-Dominique,
son
of Louis CHACHERE and Marie DUMOND of Paris, "was a French
immigrant, arriving [in Louisiana] in the late 1700s," that "there
is also some question as to whether his original ... name was CHACHERE or some
combination of his original name and his wife's name, to avoid detection by
French authorities who may have been hunting him." Louis-Dominique married Catherine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste VAUCHERE, probably in the middle
or late
1780s. Their son Louis III was born in January 1788 and baptized at Pointe Coupée the following June.
The Pointe Coupée priest who recorded the boy's baptism noted that his
parents were "of Post at Natchez," which was upriver from Pointe
Coupée near the present-day city bearing the name. The couple soon
moved across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where daughters
Louise-Émilie, born in February 1790, Louise or Lise, sometimes called
Pouponne, in January 1792, and
Marie-Mathilde, called Mathilde, in May 1792[sic], were baptized in July and August 1794
at the church in present-day St. Martinville.
In May 1796, a Spanish census taker counted Louis-Dominique and his family not in the Attakapas District but in the Church sub-district of
the Opelousas District, north of Attakapas. According to the census
report, Louis-Dominique and Catherine had one son, three daughters, and a
female slave. That November, second son
Julien-Lile, called Lile, was baptized at the Opelousas church.
Louis-Dominique and Catherine had more children in
the early 1800s, all born in the Opelousas District, now St. Landry Parish:
Félix-Veillon or Veillon-Félix, in 1801, Beaurepaire-Prosper, called
Prosper, in 1803, Laure in March 1808, and Marguerite Hermance, called
Hermance, in April 1811. They also had a son named Constant and
daughters Hyacinthe and Irma, birth dates and baptisms unrecorded, though Irma
could have been Laure.
Most of Louis-Dominique CHACHERE many children survived
childhood, married, and created families of their own. Daughter Lise married fellow French Creole Jean
Louis or Leon, called Leon, son of Antoine BOUTTE of
Atakapas, at the Opelousas church in June 1809. Marie-Louise[sic,
probably Louise-Émilie] married
Barthélemy, son of Baltazar MARTEL of St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, at the
Opelousas church in September 1809. Louis-Dominique's daughter Irma, age unrecorded,
died at Opelousas in March 1810. Mathilde married Antoine, fils, another
son of Antoine BOUTTE, at the Opelousas church in February 1818. Hyacinthe
married cousin Jacques BACON, fils of Natchez at the Opelousas church
in January 1821; Jacques, fils's mother was Marguerite VAUCHERE.
In December 1822, Louis Dominique's third son Veillon
married Marie Eloise, sometimes called Eloise, daughter of French Creole
Célestin LAVERGNE, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish.
Veillon's son Louis Félix Veillon was born near Grand Coteau in March 1824,
Félix near Opelousas in February 1832, Théogene in December 1835,
Octave in
February 1845, Henri in August 1847, and Joseph in April 1855. They also
had another son named Joseph, born probably in January 1834.
Louis Dominique's second son Lile married Emerante, daughter of Acadians Jean-Baptiste DAVID
and Scholastique SAVOIE, at the
Opelousas church in January 1825; the priest who recorded the marriage noted
that Lile's mother, Chaterine WOCHERES[sic], was deceased at the time
of the wedding. Lile's son Julien had been born in St. Landry
Parish in December 1824, twins Adolphe and Rodolphe were born in November
1825, Prosper le jeune in January 1836, and another son named Julien in
January 1844. Louis Dominique's daughter Hermance married Dominique
Contini SITTIG, fils from the Hague, Netherlands, at the Opelousas
church in November 1827. Louis Dominique's third son, Prosper, who
had settled at Prairie Bellevue, married Eugenie, sometimes called
Alexandrine, another daughter of Célestin LAVERGNE, at the Grand Coteau
church in December 1827. Their son Théodore was born in St. Landry
Parish in July 1830, Prosper, fils in April 1835, Homer in July 1837,
Alexandre in March 1842, Louis Amédée in September 1844, and Félix
le
jeune in May 1850. Louis Dominique's son Constant married
Célestine, yet another daughter of Célestin LAVERGNE, at the Grand Coteau
church in September 1831. Their son Théodose was born near Grand Coteau
in September 1832, Valery near Opelousas in July 1834, Anatole in August 1846,
and Louis was baptized at the Grand Coteau church in July 1856.
Veillon's son Louis Veillon married Emma, daughter of Adelard BOUTTE, at the
Opelousas church in April 1845; Emma's mother was a RICHARD.
Prosper's son Théodore married Clementine or Ernestine, daughter of George
BENGUEREL, at the Opelousas church in January 1855. Their son Robert was
baptized at the Opelousas church at age 5 months in May 1856, Homer was
born near Opelousas in May 1859, Gustave in October 1861, and Eugene in June
1864. Veillon's son Félix married Amelie,
daughter of Acadian Pierre PITRE, at
the Opelousas church in June 1855. Their son Pierre Numa was born near
Opelousas in December 1855, and Félix Welly in June 1860. Constant's
son Théodose married Pérrinse or Petrina, daughter of Jean Baptiste YOUNG,
at the Opelousas church in August 1856. Their son Raymond was born near
Opelousas in July 1857, Jackson Théodose in June 1859, and Théodore
le
jeune in July 1861. Lile's son
Rodolphe married 20-year-old first cousin Louise Josephine Baptiste, daughter
of his uncle Prosper CHACHERE, at the Opelousas church in May 1859.
Their son Albert Lile was born near New Iberia, then part of St. Martin
Parish, in May 1860, Adolphe Bennett near Opelousas in March 1862, and
Théodore Mozart in September 1865.
Lile died near New Iberia in February 1860; the New Iberia priest who recorded
his burial said he was 70 years old, but he was in 60s. When the federal
census taker in St. Landry Parish counted chattel property in the summer of
1860, Prosper's widow Eugenie and his son Théodore were holding slaves, so
Prosper must have died by then. Veillon's son Joseph married Élodie or
Elide,
another daughter of Pierre PITRE,
at the Opelousas church in September 1861. Veillon's son Félix died in
St. Landry Parish in August 1862; he was only 30 years old. Prosper's son Anatole
died at his home on Prairie Bellevue, St. Landry Parish, in January 1865; he
was only 18 years old and never married. Joseph Chenier, son of
Louis CHACHERE, a free man of color, died at age 5 months in December
1864. Prosper's son Ernest by Céleste CHENIER married Marie, daughter
of Hippolyte CHENIER, at the Opelousas church in October 1865; the parish
clerk who recorded the union in the civil record the day before the church
wedding described both Ernest and Marie as free persons of color.
Meanwhile, the priest who recorded Hermance CHACHERE's
marriage in November 1827 noted that not only the bride's mother, but also her
father, whom he called Louis Dominique, was deceased at the time of the
wedding. So
Louis Dominique, the progenitor of the CHACHERE's in Louisiana, died probably in 1827, age
unrecorded. His succession record was filed in the courthouse at
Opelousas in November 1827. Another succession record for Louis CHACHERE
was filed at the Franklin courthouse, St. Mary Parish, in April 1830, so
Louis-Dominique owned property in that parish as well. (It could not
have been the succession record of Louis III, because he was recorded by the
Opelousas priest in July 1831 as standing as godfather to brother Julien's
daughter, Scholastique. Louis III probably never married.) Yet
another estate record for Louis CHACHERE was filed at the Opelousas courthouse
in December 1836.
Some of Louis Dominique CHACHERE's descendants were part of
the "peculiar institution" of the antebellum South. In
September 1850, the federal census taker in the Western District of Lafayette
Parish counted a single slave--a 35-year-old black male--on Rodolphe
CHACHERE's farm in that parish. In October 1850, the federal census
taker in St. Landry Parish counted 13 slaves--6 males, 7 females, 11 blacks, 2
mulattoes, ranging in age from 65 to 1--on Lile CHACHERE's farm in the
parish. That November, the same census taker counted 12 slaves--5 males,
7 females, all blacks, ages 70 to 1--on Veillon CHACHERE's farm, and 2
slaves--a 45-year-old black female, & a 20-year-old black female--on
Constant CHACHERE's farm. A decade later, in 1860, CHACHEREs still held
slaves. The federal census taker counted 13 slaves--8 males, 5 females,
9 blacks, 4 mulattoes, ages 50 to 2--on Veillon CHACHERE's farm. Next
door, Celina CHACHERE held 2 slaves--a 40-year-old black male, and a
30-year-old black female. Constant CHACHERE held 3 slaves--2 54-year-old
black males, and a 30-year-old black female--on his farm. Prosper
CHACHERE's widow Eugenie held 4 slaves--a male and 3 females, all black, ages
50 to 8--on her farm. Next door, Prosper's son Théodore held 3
more slaves--a 50-year-old black female, and 2 black males, ages 9 and 4--on
his farm. Telia CHACHERE owned a single slave--a 14-year-old black
male.
A number of Louis Dominique CHACHERE's grandsons served
Louisiana and the Southern Confederacy during the War of 1861.
Veillon's sons Joseph
and
Théogène,
and Prosper's son Alexandre
served in Company F of the 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, raised in St. Landry Parish,
which fought in Virginia, Mayland, and Pennsylvania--General R. E. Lee's
Louisiana Tigers. Alexandre, only 19 years old and single, enlisted in
the company as a private when it was formed in June 1861 and was elected
ordnance sergeant in April 1862. He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg,
Maryland, on 17 September 1862 and fell into the hands of the enemy,
recuperated from his wounds at Federal hospitals in Maryland, stayed for a
short time in the Federal prisoner-of-war camps at Fort McHenry, Maryland, and
Fort Monroe, Virginia, was exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Virginia, in November
1862, went home on a 30-day sick furlough, and did not return to his
unit. Cousin Théogène, age 26 and single, also enlisted in the company
as a private in June 1861. Later that month, he was assigned as a
hospital steward. The following October, the Confederate Secretary of
War assigned him to the medical corps as an assistant surgeon with the rank of
captain (having earned a degree in medicine from New Orleans School of
Medicine in 1861). Brother Joseph enlisted in the company as a
private in March 1862; he was 28 years old and still single. His time in
the company was cut short when he was accidentally run over by an ambulance at
Malvern Hill, Virginia, on 1 July 1862, the day of the great battle
there. After he recuperated from his injuries, he returned to Louisiana
on a 30-day sick furlough and also remained at home. Wounds and injuries
did not end the military service of Alexandre and Joseph, however.
They both enlisted in Company I of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana
Cavalry, raised in St. Mary Parish, which saw
service in Louisiana and Mississippi and in which cousins Rodolphe,
son of Lile, and Théodose,
son of Contant, also served. J.
L. CHACHERE, whose relationship to the other members of the family cannot
be determined by the area's church records, also served in Company I, 3rd
(Harrison's) Cavalry. Prosper's son Théodore,
Alexandre's older brother, served in Company I of the 26th Louisiana Regiment
Infantry, raised in Lafourche Parish, which fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1862-63. Another unit that held a number
of CHACHEREs was the 7th Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, created late in the war,
in March 1864, not only to increase the number of cavalry units serving in
Louisiana but also to roundup deserters and suppress Jayhawker bands on the
South Louisiana prairies. Three CHACHEREs served in this regiment, all
sons of Veillon: Louis
Veillon as a sergeant in Company H, and Octave
and Henri
as privates in Company D. Although CHACHEREs were wounded in Confederate
service, no descendant of Louis CHACHERE, fils died in the
War.
After the war, Théogène practiced medicine in St. Landry
Parish "and "built up a lucrative practice." He married Marie O.,
daughter of Acadian Placide GUIDRY,
in September 1867. In 1874, he purchased a plantation in St. Landry
Parish, on which he built "a palatial residence." He served in the
Louisiana state legislature in the early 1870s.
Théogène's brother Joseph became a successful planter and
cattleman in St. Landry Parish after the war. His wife Élodie died in
1873, and he remarried the next year to Lucinda, daughter of Joseph BACON.
Théodore's son Robert, born in December 1855, educated at
St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, and a successful businessman, served as
mayor of Opelousas in the late 1880s and early 1890s.
Tony CHACHERE, a pharmaceutical salesman-turned insurance
agent and direct descendant of Louis Dominique CHACHERE, published Cajun
Country Cookbook in 1972. His company, Tony CHACHERE's Creole
Foods, started that year in Opelousas to produce and distribute food products
based on his style of cooking. The company is now run by CHACHERE's descendants, and its success has made this Cajun family a household name
The family's name also is spelled Chache, Chacheré, Chacherez, Chassere,
and Schasseret.
Sources: 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave
Schedules, Lafayette & St. Landry parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules,
St. Landry Parish; BRDR, 2:181; <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Chachere's>;
Hébert, D., Southwest
LA Records, 1-A:174, 1-B:168-69, 2-A:213; 2-B:206-07, 2-C:168-70, 831,
3:137-38, 4:95, 5:114, 6:114-16, 7:86-87; Perrin, W. H., SW LA,
Biographical Sketches, 13-14, source of quotes; Voorhies, J., Some Late
Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 361; Hank Smith, descendant, source
of family legend.
CHAIX
Pronunciation: CHAZE
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1832
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Barthelemy
Emile CHAIX
Settled: Lafayette Parish
Acadian connection: MOUTON
Comments: Barthélemy-Émile CHAIX, called
Émile, son of François-Marie-Barthélemy CHAIX & Henriette-Léonore COLOMB
of Hautes-Alpes, France, married Marie Arsène MOUTON, daughter
of Don Louis MOUTON and Marie CORMIER of Lafayette Parish, 9 August 1832, in St.
John Catholic Church, Vermilionville, now the city of Lafayette. The Edmond CHAIX who served in
Company G, 30th Regiment/Battalion Infantry may have been a relative of Émile.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
3:138, 483.
CHAMPAGNE
Pronunciation: sham-PAIN, shawn-pohn-yuh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON, BOURGEOIS,
HEBERT, MELANCON
Comments:
CHAPOTON
Pronunciation: SHA-po-tonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: RIVET
Comments:
CHARLET
Pronunciation: shar-LAY, shar-LET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, HEBERT, LANDRY
Comments:
CHARPENTIER
Pronunciation: shar-PONH-tee-yay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDET, GUIDRY, LAMBERT,
MARTIN
Comments:
CHARPIOT
Pronunciation: SHAR-pee-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDIN
Comments:
CHARRIER
Pronunciation: SHARE-ee-ay, SHAR-ee-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ACHEE
Comments:
CHAUFFE
Pronunciation: SHOFF
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DAVID
Comments:
CHAUVIN
Pronunciation: SHO-van, sho-VAN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON, BREAUX,
GRANGER, LANDRY, PART
Comments:
CHEMIN
Pronunciation: sheh-MANH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG
Comments:
CHENET
Pronunciation: sheh-NET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BUJOLE, PELLERIN
Comments:
CHENEVERT
Pronunciation: SHIN-eh-vair
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: POTIER
Comments:
CHERAMIE
Pronunciation: SHARE-uh-mee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, MICHEL, PITRE,
THERIOT
Comments:
CHEVET
Pronunciation: shuh-VET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX
Comments:
CHIASSON
Pronunciation: CHA-sohn, SHA-sohn, SASH-onh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
CHIQUET
Pronunciation: she-KET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GUIDRY, HÉBERT
Comments:
CHOATE
Pronunciation: SHOAT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: FORET
Comments:
CHRETIEN
Pronunciation: KREE-shan
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: SONNIER
Comments:
CHUTZ
Pronunciation: shoots
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON(probably French
Creole), LEJEUNE(probably French Creole)
Comments:
CIRE -- see ST. CYR
CLAUSE
Pronunciation: klaw-ZAY, KLAWS
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
CLAVEL
Pronunciation: kluh-VEL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
CLEMENT
Pronunciation: KLAY-monh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: In Acadia, the family was called
VINCENT dit CLEMENT. For some reason, a branch of the VINCENT
family began to call itself CLEMENT instead.
CLOUATRE
Pronunciation: CLUE-ott
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
COINTMENT
Pronunciation: COIN-monh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD
Comments:
COLLIGAN -- see CALLIGAN/COLLIGAN
COMARDELLE
Pronunciation: KOHM-ar-del
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled: Lafourche Parish
Acadian connection: HÉBERT, MARTIN
Comments: The family's name also is spelled
Camardel, Camardelle, Camardet, Carmadelle, Comordon.
COMEAUX
Pronunciation: KOH-mo
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
COMES
Pronunciation: KOMBS
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
COMSTOCK
Pronunciation: KOM-stock
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN
Comments:
CONSTANT
Pronunciation: KON-stonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BUJOLE, LANDRY
Comments:
CONSTANTIN
Pronunciation: KON-stan-tan, KON-stan-tin
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURGEOIS, LEBLANC,
SONNIER, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
CONSTANTINO
Pronunciation: kon-stan-TEE-no
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUTREAUX
Comments:
COREY
Pronunciation: KOH-ree
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
CORKRAN
Pronunciation: KORK-run
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: MARTIN
Comments:
CORMIER
Pronunciation: KARM-yay, korm-YAY, KAR-mee-ay
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
COULON
Pronunciation: koo-LON
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: none yet found
Comments:
COURCIER
Pronunciation: KOOR-see-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: THIBODEAUX
Comments:
COURET
Pronunciation: koo-RET
First Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1847
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean Louis
COURET
Settled: St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: none yet found
Comments: Jean Louis COURET of Auzas, Haute
Garonne, France, son of Bernard COURET and Marie
FARGE, and probably no kin to Louis below, married Sidalise,
daughter of Charles NORMAND and Sylesie FONTENOT of St. Landry Parish on 29
June 1847 at the Opelousas church. One wonders if he is the same
person as Captain Y. L. COURET of Company A, 2nd Regiment Louisiana Reserve Corps, a St.
Landry Parish unit.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
4:113, 377.
Second Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: before 1857
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Louis COURET
Settled: Lafayette Parish
Acadian connection: BERNARD
Comments: Louis COURET, a native of
France, son of Austique COURET and Marie TERDEUIL, probably no kin to Jean-Louis above, married
Clémence, daughter of Gerasin BERNARD
and Eugenie MOUTON of Lafayette Parish, 26 May 1857,
at the Vermilionville church, now the city of Lafayette. He served in Company A, 26th Regiment
Louisiana Infantry as sergeant-major, or so says the CSRC and Booth.
Source: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 6:40,
139.
COURTADE
Pronunciation: koor-TOD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
COURTIN
Pronunciation: KOOR-tanh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD, MARTIN
Comments:
COURVILLE
Pronunciation: KOOR-vill
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, LEBERT
Comments:
COUSIN
Pronunciation: KOO-zan
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: RIVET
Comments:
COUTÉE
Pronunciation: koo-TAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LONGUÉPÉE
Comments:
COUVILLION
Pronunciation: KOO-vee-yonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: none found
CREDEUR -- see CARUTHERS/CREDEUR
CREIGHTON
Pronunciation: KRAY-ton
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: MOUTON
Comments:
CROCHET
Pronunciation: KROW-shay
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
CUVELLIER
Pronunciation: koo-VELL-ee-ay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROBICHAUX, SONNIER
Comments:
DAIGRE/DAIGLE
Pronunciation: DEG, DAY-gull
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DAMON
Pronunciation: dah-MON
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: FORET
Comments:
DANOS
Pronunciation: DAN-ohs
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, GUIDRY, MIRE
Comments:
DANTIN
Pronunciation: donh-TANH
Origin: Acadian [see
Family History]
DARBONNE
Pronunciation: DAR-bone
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BUJOLE, DOUCET
Comments:
DARBY
Pronunciation: DAR-bee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: PELLERIN
Comments:
DARCE
Pronunciation: DORSE, dar-SAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, BOURG, BABIN,
BERGERON, DAIGLE, HENRY
Comments:
DARDEAU
Pronunciation: DAR-doh
First Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1830s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Édouard
Alphonse Ferdinand DARDEAU
Settled: Ville Platte, St. Landry Parish
Acadian connection: NAQUIN
Comments: Édouard Alphonse Ferdinand, son
of André DARDEAU and Rosalie BORDIRIEAU of Department of Cher-et-Loire,
France, born in c1806, married Marie, 21-year-old daughter of French Creole Pierre VIDRINE,
at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in April 1835. Their son
André was born in St. Landry Parish in August 1837. Their daughters
married into the SENSAT and TATE families. Marie died in 1842, and
Édouard remarried to Louise Ladoiska, called Ladoiska, daughter of Louis
Nicolas RAWLIN or ROLLIN, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February
1843, and sanctified the marriage at the Opelousas church in February
1845. Their son Louis Édouard, called Édouard, fils, was born in St. Landry
Parish in December 1844, Jacques Oscar, called Oscar, in March 1846, Stanislas Yorick, called Yorick, near Ville Platte, present-day Evangeline Parish, in
May 1854, and André le jeune in August 1859 but died two days after his
birth. Their daughters married into the REED, STAGG, and TATE
families. Édouard Alphonse Ferdinand died at his home at Ville Platte in August 1860; he was
only 54 years old. His widow,
Louise Ladoiska, remarried to Frédéric Aimé Charles Marie DE COURSON in
August 1862 but died soon after, in March 1863; she was
only 40 years old.
André l'aîné, by Édouard Alphonse Ferdinand's first
wife, married Élise, daughter of Acadian
François NAQUIN of Terrebonne
Parish, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in July 1856. Their son
André Onésime was born near Ville Platte in July 1860. Their daughter
married into the DOSSMAN family. André l'aîné died by
April 1878, when his wife remarried at Ville Platte; he would have been 50
years old that year.
During the War Between the States, Louis
Édouard or Édouard, fils, by Édouard Alphonse Ferdinand's second wife, was a clerk residing
at Ville Platte when he enlisted in Company F of the 8th Regiment Louisiana
Infantry in March 1862; Édouard, fils told the Confederate officer who signed him to
the rolls that he was 20 years old, but he was only 17. Édouard, fils
joined
his regiment in Virginia and was captured at Woodstock during General
Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign in early June 1862.
Édouard, fils was held prisoner at Fort Delaware, Delaware, for two
months before he was exchanged and released in early August. He returned
to his regiment and fought at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in September 1862 and
at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862. On 4 May 1863, in the Battle
of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, during the Chancellorsville Campaign,
Édouard, fils fell seriously wounded. After months of suffering in a
Confederate army hospital, he was sent home on a medical discharge the
following October. He did not return to his unit. His wound must
not have been life threatening; the Louisiana Tiger married Sidonise GUILLORY probably at Ville Platte in the late 1860s. Their
son René Édouard was born near Ville Platte in October 1870. Their
daughter married into the MANUEL family. René Édouard married
Louisa, daughter of Octave ARDOIN, at the Ville Platte church in February
1895. Édouard, fils remarried to Clara,
daughter of William REED, at the Ville Platte church in January 1876.
Their son Louis Sylla, Ceilard, or Silas, called Silas, was born near Ville
Platte in November 1876 and married Onesia, daughter of Louis YOUNG, at the
Eunice church, St. Landry Parish, in December 1898.
Oscar, by Édouard Alphonse Ferdinand's second wife, married Marie Coralie,
daughter of Hilaire TATE, at the Ville Platte church in June 1870. Their
son Louis Arthur, called Arthur, was born near Ville Platte in January 1874,
and Joseph Regile in April 1876. Their daughters married into the
MOUILLAND and REED families. Arthur married Rita, daughter of Jules COREIL, at the Ville Platte church in
February 1895. Oscar remarried to Marie Louise, daughter of Barthélémy
Marius COREIL and widow of Joseph P. ROY,
at the Ville Platte church in July 1888.
Yorick, by Édouard Alphonse Ferdinand's second wife, married Marie or
Mary, daughter of Joseph STEVENS, at the Ville Platte church in January
1887. Their son Joseph René was born near Ville Platte in March 1891,
Ulrick in November 1894, and Clovis in March 1897.
Jules DARDEAU married Celina HAYES in December
1883. Their son Wilson was born near Church Point, present-day
Acadia Parish, in April 1886. Jules probably was a kinsman of André, Édouard,
fils, Oscar, and Yorick.
Source: Booth, LA Confed. Soldiers, 2:535;
Hébert, D., South LA Records, 3:164, 4:207; Hébert, D., Southwest
LA Records, 3:170, 4:120-21, 5:143; 6:146-67, 7:112, CD.
Second Family:
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1850s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Alexandre
DARDEAU
Settled: Terrebonne, St. Mary, and St. Landry
parishes
Acadian connection: CASTILLE
Comments: Alexandre, son of Jacques
DARDEAU and Catherine CHANONIER of France, perhaps a kinsman of Édouard
Alphonse Ferdinand DARDEAU of St. Landry Parish, married Marie Augustine,
daughter of François CASSET or TASSET, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish,
in September 1855. Their son Clovis Alexandre or François was born in
Terrebonne Parish in August 1857, Arthur Pierre Joseph in February 1859 but
died at age 8 in January 1865, and Michel Raoul, called Raoul, was born in December
1861 but died at age 15 months in May 1863. Meanwhile, Alexandre died in
Terrebonne Parish in April 1862. Clovis married Antoinette Cora, called
Cora, daughter of Alexandre CASTILLE, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry
Parish, in December 1888. Their son Joseph Hippomene was born near Grand
Coteau in June 1895.
Lucien DARDEAU, born in c1854, died near Charenton, St. Mary
Parish, in January 1873; he was only 19 years old. He may have been
Alexandre's kinsman.
Omer DARDEAU married Eliza LEE probably was at New Iberia in the late 1880s or early 1890s. He, too,
may have been Alexandre's kinsman.
Sources: Hébert, D., South LA Records,
3:164, 4:207; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, CD.
DARDEN
Pronunciation: DARD-en, dar-DAN
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BREAUX, GUILLOT, LEGER,
RICHARD, ROGER
Comments:
DARTEZ
Pronunciation: DAR-tez
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BOURQUE, GUIDRY, HÉBERT,
MOUTON
Comments: The earlier spelling was DARTES.
DASPIT
Pronunciation: das-pee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOUDREAUX, GUIDRY
Comments:
DAUNIS
Pronunciation: daw-NEE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, GAUTREAUX, GUIDRY
Comments:
DAUTERIVE
Pronunciation: DOH-treeve
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEBLANC, SAVOIE
Comments:
DAUTREUIL
Pronunciation: doh-troy
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERTRAND, LEBLANC
Comments:
DAVID
Pronunciation: dah-VEED
First Family:
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1745
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Étienne
DAVID
Settled: Pointe Coupée & St. Martin parishes
Source: BRDR, 1b:43.
Comments:
Second Family:
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: Although some of the DAVIDs of South
Louisiana were not Acadian, they are listed here as Acadian.
DEBERGE
Pronunciation: deh-BURZHE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN
Comments:
DE
BLANC
Pronunciation: duh-BLONH
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT, LANDRY,
LOUVIERE, MARTIN
Comments:
DE
CLOUET
Pronunciation: duh-KLOO-aye
Origin: French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: none found
DECOTTEAU
Pronunciation: deck-oh-toe
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
DECOUX
Pronunciation: deh-KOH, deh-KOO
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD, PELLERIN
Comments:
DECUIR
Pronunciation: deh-KWEER
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABIN, BROUSSARD,
HÉBERT, PELLERIN
Comments:
DEGEYTER
Pronunciation: DAY-geh-tear
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
DEJEAN
Pronunciation: DAY-zhon
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD, GAUTREAUX,
LANDRY, MOUTON
Comments:
DELACROIX
Pronunciation: DELL-uh-kwah
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: PELLERIN, THERIOT
Comments:
DELAFOSSE
Pronunciation: DELL-uh-foss
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BENOIT, LEBLANC
Comments:
DELAHAYE
Pronunciation: dee-lah-HAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARBOUR
Comments:
DELAHOUSSAYE
Pronunciation: dell-uh-HOO-see, dell-uh-HOO-say
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: RICHARD
Comments:
DELATTE
Pronunciation: day-LOT, deh-LOT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDET
Comments: The name also is spelled Deslatte and
Deslattes. West of the Atchafalaya Basin, members of this family prefer
Deslatte. East of the Basin, where they are much more
numerous, they favor Delatte, the standard spelling used here.
DELAUNE
Pronunciation: de-lawn
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DELCAMBRE
Pronunciation: DELL-cum
Origin: Foreign French with possible Belgian
roots
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1812
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean Charles
DELCAMBRE, fils
Settled: St. Mary Parish
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, HÉBERT, LANDRY
Comments: Jean Charles, fils,
called Charles, and Louis, son of Jean Charles DELCAMBRE and Louise PICOU
of Brest, France, a Frenchman with possible Belgian roots, married
Constance, daughter of Pierre ÉTIE and Victoire BOREL of lower Bayou Teche,
in St. Martin Parish in July 1812. Their descendants moved out into
the prairies west of the Teche. The town in Vermilion/Iberia
Parish on the lower Vermilion River was named after a grandson, Désiré
DELCAMBRE.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
vol. 2-A; online Wikipedia, "Delcambre, Louisiana."
DELHOMME
Pronunication: dell-owm
First Family:
Origin: French/Flemish Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1757
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Edmé-Charles, Alexandre, &
Pierre-Antoine dit Billon DELHOMME
Settled: New Orleans or along the Mississippi
River, probably above New Orleans; Atakapas Post area, present-day St.
Martin & Lafayette parishes
Comments: Alexandre, born in c1757, son of Edmé-Charles DELHOMME
(also spelled De L'Homme), called Charles, a
captain in the
French army and native of French Flanders, and Honorine or Lorine CHAUVIN
de Lery of France, married Félicité PRADIE or PRADIER at Attakapas in December 1782.
Church
records note that Alexandre's father Charles was a Chevalier
de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de St. Louis, one of the highest decorations in
the French army. Charles settled in New Orleans and perhaps at
St.-Charles des Allemands on the German Coast. Félicité's parents were from France and settled in New Orleans
and at St.-Charles des Allemands. Alexandre, born in New Orleans, followed in his father's
footsteps and became an officer of the Attakapas militia. He settled at L'ance des Charpentiers on Bayou
Fuselier and produced a large family, including five sons who created families
of their own. His younger brother, Pierre-Antoine dit Billon,
born in c1789, married Julie NEZAT, widow of Nicolas GUÉNARD, at St. Martinville
in May 1809. Pierre-Antoine also settled at L'ance des Charpentiers; he and
Julie produced a smaller family than Alexandre and Félicité.
Alexandre's son Charles-Alexandre, born at Attakapas in 1787, married Eulalie BERGERON
at St. Martinville in April 1818. Her family were French Creole BERGERONs of
False River, Pointe Coupée Parish, who were living on Bayou Fusilier at the
time of the marriage. Alexandre's son Martin dit Valcour,
born at Attakapas in 1802, married Sidalise Françoise, daughter of Acadians François
RICHARD and
Hélène BRASSEAUX, at Grand Coteau
in May 1821. Another of Alexandre's sons, Alexandre, fils,
born at Attakapas in 1798,
married Adeline or Adelphine BERGERON, a sister of his brother Charles's wife,
at St. Martinville in February 1823. Another of Alexandre's son, Antoine dit Billon
dit
Dorsin, born at Attakapas in 1804, married Marie Joséphine or Jeanne,
daughter of French Canadian Vincent BERTRAND and Acadian Marie Victoire GRAVOIS, at Grand Coteau
in May 1824. Still another son, Édouard
dit Edmond, born at Attakapas in 1806 or 1809, married Émelie,
daughter of French Creole François GAUTHIER and Élise GREVEMBERG, at St. Martinville
in September 1827. Alexandre, père's son Louis, born at
Attakapas in
1789, seems not
to have created a family of his own. One of Alexandre père's
daughters, Honorine, married Pierre BERGERON, brother of Eulalie and Adelphine, at St. Martinville
in January 1819. Alexandre, père died at
his home at L'ance des Charpentiers in April 1820, about age 63.
Brother Pierre-Antoine was buried at Grand Coteau (the church record also says "at Bayou
Carencro") in October 1829, age 40. Pierre-Antoine's son, Alexandre Antoine
dit Chevalier Billon, born probably in St. Martin Parish in 1812, married Marie Clemelina or Fanalie,
daughter of Acadian Pierre Cyprien ARCENEAUX, at Vermilionville,
now the city of Lafayette, in April 1836.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
1-A:236-37, 1-B:222-24, 2A:287-88; 2-B:278-80, 2-C:224-26, 847-48, 3:187-88, 4:135-36,
5:157-58, 6:161-62.
Second Family:
Origin: probably French Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1780
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Edmé-Joseph-Octave,
père, François-Christophe-Chevalier, & Edmé-Joseph-Octave, fils
DELHOMME
Settled: present-day St. Charles Parish; Attakapas Post area, present-day St. Martin & Lafayette parishes
Comments: François-Christophe-Chevalier,
called Chevalier, born in c1780, son of Edmé-Joseph
DELHOMME, père & Marie-Jeanne-Antoinette DE GLAPION of St. Charles Parish, married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of
Chevalier Alexandre DE CLOUET of Bayou Vermilion
and Charlotte DE LESSARD, in St. Martin Parish in August 1809. Edmé-Joseph-Octave DELHOMME, fils, birth
year unknown, called Octave, brother of Chevalier, married Charlotte
Eucharis HARDY in St. Martin Parish in the early 1800s. Octave died in
St. Martin Parish in May 1854, his age unrecorded. Nothing in the church records indicates that
these DELHOMMEs were kin to Alexandre and Pierre-Antoine DELHOMME, who also settled in
the Attakapas region. However, a Chevalier DELHOMME did sign as witness to Alexandre's
son Charles's marriage at St. Martinville in 1818. Was this the
service of a relative or of a neighbor? Chevalier died in St. Martin
Parish in February 1856, age 76. The church records do not clearly mark
a line of male descendants from this DELHOMME or his brother.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:224,
2-A:287, 2-C:225, 847-48, 3:188, 4:136, 5:158, 6:161.
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BERGERON,
BERNARD, BERTRAND, BOUDREAUX, BREAUX, HÉBERT, LEBERT, RICHARD, RIVET
DEMAREST/DEMARY
Pronunication: duh-MARE-ist, DEM-uh-rist,
duh-MARE-ee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: FORET, JEANSONNE
Comments:
DEMOND
Pronunication: deh-MOND
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LEJEUNE
Comments:
DERICHEBOURG
Pronunication: de-reesh-burg, dare-ish-burg
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BABIN, HEBERT
Comments:
DERISE
Pronunication: deh-REESE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: SAVOIE
Comments:
DEROUEN
Pronunciation: deh-roo-ANH, DER-oh-in
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD, HÉBERT, LANDRY,
PREJEAN, RICHARD
Comments:
DEROUSELLE
Pronunciation: deh-roo-SELL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GRAVOIS
Comments:
DESHOTELS
Pronunciation: DES-uh-tells, DES-uh-tell
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, GRANGER
Comments: The name also is spelled Deshotel.
DESNOYER
Pronunciation: deh-NOY-yay
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: GAUDIN
Comments:
DESORMEAUX
Pronunciation: des-AR-mo
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, HEBERT, PITRE,
TRAHAN
Comments:
DEROCHE
Pronunication: day-roh-SHAY, day-ROHSH
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DE
VALCOURT
Pronunciation: deh-VAL-core
Origin: French-American
Arrived in Louisiana: by 1827
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Théodore-Jean
DE VALCOURT
Settled: St. Charles Parish; St. Martin Parish
Acadian connection: GUIDRY,
THIBODEAUX
Comments: Théodore-Jean DE VALCOURT of
Baltimore, Maryland, son of Alexandre DE VALCOURT & Marguerite GOULD or
GOLD, lived in St. Charles
Parish before moving to St. Martin Parish. He married Marie Catherine Phelonise,
daughter of Pierre GUIDRY and
his third wife Marguerite MILLER of La Grande Pointe, St. Martin Parish, at the
St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in March 1827; he was 30 years old. He died
in St. Martin Parish in September 1847, age 50.
Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records,
2-C:236, CD.
DEVENPORT
Pronunciation: DEV-in-port
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERNARD
Comments:
DE VILLE
Pronunciation: duh-VILL
Origin: Swiss Creole
Arrived in Louisiana: late 1760s
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Michel DE VILLE
Settled: Rapides Post, present-day Rapides
Parish and the city of Alexandria; St. Landry and Evangeline parishes
Acadian connection: CORMIER, JEANSONNE
Comments: Louis DE VILLE was a Swiss Protestant,
probably descended from French Huguenots, who settled in the British colony
of South Carolina during the 1730s. In September 1738, Louis I, as he
is called by the family, received a grant of 50 acres of land at Purrysburg,
today's Purysburgh, on the lower Savannah River near present-day
Hardeeville, South Carolina, just north of Savannah, Georgia. Nothing
more is known of Louis I--who he married, where he was born, where he had
lived in Switzerland. He evidently had a son named Michel, born
perhaps at Port Royal, South Carolina, who did not remain in the English
colonies. In April 1768, Michel married Marguerite, daughter of German
Creole Johann KATZENBERG, at New Orleans. Soon after their marriage,
they received from the Spanish one of the first land grants at Rapides Post
on the Red River. Their home lay "probably on the right
bank, ascending, of Bayou Rapides," a tributary of the Red River, in the
present city of Alexandria. Spanish authorities counted them at
Rapides in 1773; they had two sons with them: Nicolas-Michel, age 5,
and Jean-Pierre, age 2. They also had a son named Louis II dit
Fillo, born in c1770, whose name does not appear in the 1773 census.
More children were born to Michel and Marguerite at Rapides: Auguste
in December 1775, Valentin in December 1777, Étienne in c1779, Marie in
1781, Marguerite in February 1783, Jean in February 1787, and Euphrogine,
birth date unknown. By 1788, Michel was "the largest producer of
tobacco in the Rapides Post area. In fact, he had apparently been
involved in tobacco production for at least a decade prior to that date."
Michel died at his home at Rapides Post in June 1793. Marguerite died
less than two years later.
Son Valentin married Marguerite ÉTIENNE and remained at
Rapides. At least two of Michel's sons, however, Louis II dit Fillo and
Étienne, left Rapides and moved south to the Opelousas District during the
late colonial period.
Étienne married Marie Louise, daughter of Nicolas LEVASSEUR or VASSEUR and Thérèse BIENVENU of Illinois, at Opelousas in September 1801.
Louis II dit Fillo married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Acadians Jean
JEANSONNE
and Anastasie PREJEAN,
at Opelousas in January 1802. One of Louis's daughters, Marie
Eloise or Louise, called Lise, born at Opelousas in February 1803, married
Jean Baptiste, also called Eugène Baptiste, son of Acadian Jean
CORMIER
of Chignecto and Élisabeth MOREL of Pointe-de-Paix, Haiti, at
Opelousas in June 1818; Jean Baptiste was 34 years old at the time of the
wedding, over twice the age of his bride; he was a native of Jean-Robel,
St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, and had come to Louisiana as a refugee perhaps
via Cuba in c1809, when Lise was just a girl. ...
Sources: De Ville, "The De Ville Family,"
source of quote;
Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-B, 2-A.
DEVILLIER
Pronunciation: duh-VILL-ee-ay, duh-vill-ee-AY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DUPUIS
Comments:
DICHARRY
Pronunciation: de-share-ee
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, DUGAS
Comments:
DODD
Pronunciation: DOD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ORILLION
Comments:
DOIRON
Pronunciation: DWAH-ronh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DOMENGEAUX
Pronunciation: duh-MAZH-zhee-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ROY, VINCENT
Comments:
DOMINGUE/DOMINGUES
Pronunciation: DOH-mang
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: VINCENT
Comments: East of the Atchafalaya, the family
name is also spelled Domangue.
DORÉ
Pronunciation: doh-RAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT, LANDRY
Comments:
DOUCET
Pronunciation: DOO-set, doo-SET, doo-SAY
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DRONET
Pronunciation: draw-NET
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURGEOIS
Comments:
DUBOIS
Pronunciation: doo-BWAH, DOO-bwah
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
Comments: Although some of the DUBOISs in
Louisiana were Creole, the family will be listed here as Acadian.
DUBUISSON
Pronunciation: DOO-bwee-sonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
DUCHAMP
Pronunciation: doo-SHANH, DOO-shanh
Origin: Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana: 1850
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste-Eugene DUCHAMP de Chastaigne
Settled: New Orleans; St. Martin Parish
Acadian connection: none found
Comments: Jean-Baptiste-Eugene DUCHAMP de
Chastaigne and his wife Marie-Louise-Josephine-Sophie-Mercepe MARTIN de
Lamartiniere, natives of Martinique, moved to Morris County, New Jersey, in
1830. Their four sons, Charles Louis, born in c1836, Eugene Auguste in 1837,
Arthur E. in c1841, and Louis C. on 2 February 1842, all were born there. In 1845, the
family left New Jersey for Martinique and then moved from the island to New
Orleans in 1850 before moving on to St. Martinville in 1853. Three
sons of Jean-Baptiste-Eugene served in Company C, 8th Louisiana
Infantry. Charles eventually commanded the company and was seriously
wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on 2 July 1863. Arthur E. was
killed in action at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, on 11 May 1864, and was
described as "a brave and gallant young man." Louis C. served
not only in Virginia with the 8th Infantry but also in Louisiana with Company
C, Consolidated 18th Regiment and Yellow Jackets Battalion Infantry.
Eugene Auguste did not serve in the war.
Sources: Booth, LA Confed. Soldiers, 2:691-92;
Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 6:184; Perrin, W.H., SW LA, 320,
323-24.
DUCHARME
Pronunciation: DOO-sharm
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD,
RICHARD, RIVET, THIBODEAUX, TRAHAN
Comments:
DUCO
Pronunciation: DOO-ko, doo-KO
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HÉBERT
Comments:
DUET
Pronunciation: doo-AYE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BERGERON,
GUIDRY, MARTIN, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
DUFFEL
Pronunciation: duff-ull
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: LANDRY
Comments:
DUFOUR
Pronunciation: doo-FOUR
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: PITRE
Comments:
DUFRENE
Pronunciation: doo-frayne
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ARCENEAUX, BOURGEOIS,
LANDRY, ROBICHAUX, SAVOIE, THIBODEAUX
Comments:
DUGAN
Pronunciation: DOO-gun
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, TRAHAN
Comments:
DUGAS
Pronunciation: DOO-gah
Origin: Acadian [See Family
History]
DUGON
Pronunciation: DOO-gonh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: TRAHAN
Comments:
DUGUE
Pronunciation: doo-GWAY
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BROUSSARD, DAIGLE, LAVERGNE
Comments:
DUHON
Pronunciation: DOO-yonh, doo-YONH, DOO-honh
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DUMESNIL
Pronunciation: doo-may-kneel
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: HEBERT, TRAHAN
Comments:
DUPLANTIS
Pronunciation: doo-PLAN-tis
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: MARTIN
Comments:
DUPLECHIN
Pronunciation: DOO-pleh-shan
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: TRAHAN
Comments:
DUPLESSIS
Pronunciation: doo-ple-see, doo-PLEH-sis
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ALLAIN, GAUTREAUX
Comments:
DUPONT
Pronunciation: DOO-ponh, doo-PONT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BLANCHARD
Comments:
DUPRÉ
Pronunciation: doo-PRAY, doo-PREE
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: AUCOIN, GAUDIN, LANDRY,
LEBLANC
Comments:
DUPUIS/DUPUY
Pronunciation: doo-PWEE
Origin: Acadian [see Family
History]
DURALDE
Pronunciation: doo-RALD
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ALLAIN(probably French
Creole)
Comments:
DURAND/DURANT
Pronunciation: doo-RAND, doo-RANT
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: DUGAS
Comments:
DUREL
Pronunciation: doo-REL
Origin: French Creole or Foreign French
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: BOURG, DAIGLE, DUBOIS,
LANDRY, PREJEAN
Comments: Although two Acadian DURELs came to
Louisiana in 1765 and 1785, both were females, so the DURELs of Louisiana are
French Creoles or Foreign French, not Acadians.
DURIO
Pronunciation: DUR-ee-oh
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: COMEAUX, LANDRY,
MELANÇON
Comments:
DUVAL
Pronunciation: doo-VAL, doo-VALL
Origin:
Arrived in Louisiana:
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana:
Settled:
Acadian connection: ALLAIN, BOURGEOIS, HÉBERT, MARTIN, SONNIER
Comments:
