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31 Marriage records from about 1730 to 1830
Earlier Marriages found Mixed in Baptism Book of 1704
[Note:
The end papers are titled in English, the first line in ink and the second
in pencil.]
Mob. mb I:la
February 8, 1732
The present
register [containing] . . . recto and verso was numbered and [initialled
first and] last, by us commissioner [of the Marine] . . . second councior
of the Superior Council and first judge of the department of Mobile to
register therein what is done in this parish; done [at Fort] Condé of
Mobile the eighth of February one thousand [seven] hundred thirty-two,
approved the eighth.1
De Cremont2
Book of Marriages3
1.
The above is a full translation of the remaining part of the page, with
words in brackets supplied by the editor.
2. The signature is that of Charles François de
Cremont, commissioner of the Marine and judge atFort Condé. He signed, on the same date,
the title page of a funeral register that is now erroneously bound in
Marriage Book I as folio 36. De Cremont left Louisiana in 1735
but returned in 1737. He died in Louisiana that year. Menier, Inventa
ire, 268, 291, 294.
3. The title <Book of Marriages> is
a later addition by a different hand.
Mob. mb I:2a1
February 13, 1726
Three banns published.2
Jean Carmouche dit Lorrain,3 son of
Jean Carmouche and Anne Galois.
Anne Alexandre dii’ Chenet,
native of this country, daughter of Vincent Alexancire dit Chenet
and Marie Praux.
Witnesses named: Jean Bon, grandfather of the
bride (actually her step-grandfather); Robert Talon; Etienne Fievre; Jean
Baptiste de Bubul— dit Marquis de (Pire?).4
Witnesses signing:
I. Bon, husband of the bride’s
grandmother, Anne Perrot; (Jean Baptiste de Bubul— dit) Lemarquis
Depire; (Vincent John dii’) Dubreuil; Robert Talon, her uncle as
husband of Jeanne Praux; Jan (Jean) Baptiste Hervieux, husband of the
bride’s mother; E(tienne) Fievre, husband of Marie Anne Grise.
1. The verso of folio 2 is
blank.
2. The phrase apres les roys , used to indicate the date of
the banns, refers to the Epiphany, the Feast of the Kings, January
6.
3. He was baptized in 1690 at Eghise St. Laurent,
Pont-à-Mousson. Jack Belsom to the writer, January 10, 1971; Research of
Mrs. Hudson Carmouche of Houston, Texas. Jean Carmouche, serrurier,
was listed as 28 years old in 1720 on board the Gironde. He was employed as a worker
for the Chaumont concession. LHML, Passages, 156; Conrad, First
Families of Louisiana , 92.
4. This witness’s
name was Bubuli or Bubulé.
Mob. mb I:3a-1—3b1
April 6, 1726
Appearing before us f. Mathias, Capuchin priest, apostolic missionary,
acting as curé at Mobile, and Mr. De La Loire Flaucour, principal clerk
and judge of the said place, Joseph Barbau dit Boisdoré Native of
Quebec, master tailleur presently living at New Orleans, and [he]
swore before us and in the presence of Claude Parant, resident of Mobile;
of Louis Assaffly dit Tranchemontagne; and of Catherine Christophe,
spouse of the said Parant; that he has not been married, and [that] he is
entirely free, as is required for the marriage he wants to make with a
girl of this place, Mobile, and that, since he cannot give the sufficient
proofs of the single state, in which he must be to be able to contract the
marriage, because of the voyages that he has made in different countries,
so he has engaged us to write up this act for our protection, in faith
thereof we have signed the day and year abovementioned with the witnesses
herein named above.
Witnesses named: Claude Parant, resident of
Mobile;
Louis Assailly dit Tranchemontagne; Catherine Christophe, spouse of
Sieur Parant.
Witnesses signing: Joseph Barbo dit Boisdoré;
Mathias de Sedan, Capuchin priest, apostolic missionary, curé (of Mobile);
Cath(erine) Christophe (formerly widow of Pierre Boyer, then wife of
Claude Parant); cross of Louis Assailly (dit Tranchemontagne), who
married Marie Thérèse Bret in 1724 (Mob bb 1:50); cross of Claude Parant;
(Louis Auguste) de La Loëre Flaucour.2
1. The verso of folio 2 and
the top half of folio 3 (old number 36) are blank. Parts of this record
are very faded.
2. La Loëre Flaucour, an official at Mobile, 1724-1726. He was sent to Balize in 1727.
Conrad, First Families, I, 230. In 1730, he was at New Orleans. S. L.
NO. mb A no. 378.
Appointed as clerk for Illinois September
15, 1733 (AC, B 57:616), he served until his death
in 1746. Pease and
Jenison, Illinois on Eve, 48n;
Kaskaskia, 1737:5:18, 12:18; 1738:8:24,
9:24; 1743:7:27, etc.
Caldwell
gives his death date as 1747. Caldwell, French in the Mississippi
Valley , 46.
It is true that Joseph Buchet was not notified that he would replace La
Loëre until
1748. Maurepas to Buchet, December 11, 1747, AN, Col. B 5
8:32, transcribed in Pease and
Jenison, illinois
on Eve, 47-48.
Mob. mb P3b-1—4a1
April 8, 1726
One bann published.
Joseph Barbo (Barbeau) dit Boisdoré,
master tailleur, now living in New Orleans, son of Jean Baptiste
Barbeau dit Boisdoré and of Marie de Noyon.2
Marie Louise Bret,
daughter of Louis Bret, master tailleur, and of Elizabeth Roy of St. Sauveur Parish in La Rochelle.
Witnesses named: Estienne Du Bordieu, Louis Bourbon,
Jean Baptiste Fontaine (possibly Jean Fontaffle), and Barthelemy de la
Mar.
Witnesses signing: E(tienne) Dubourdieu,
spouse of Jeanne Kerourette; (Louis) Bourbon (dit Osseman);
Fontai—— (faded. Visible letters look like the 1724 Fontaille signatures,
Mob. mb 1:53-54); Marie Bret, one of the sisters of the bride; (Barthelemy
Justin de) Lamare, spouse of Claude Françoise de Vodestar; Jeanne
Kerrouret, who signed equerroureta on her 1736 marriage certificate; André
Guillette, wife of Louis Bourbon.
1. The record is faded and
stained.
2. The groom’s parents were Francois Jean Barbeau dit
Boisdoré and Marie de Noyan in Drouin, DNCF, I, 47; Jean Barbot
dit Boisdoré and Marie de Noyon in Tanguay, DGCG, I, 25; and
Jean Barbeau and Marie De Noyon (dit Boisdoré) in ibid., II,
111 Marie De Noyon’s father was De Noyon or Desnoyers in ibid., I,
382.
Mob. mb I:4a-11
June 6, 1726
Two
banns published, dispensed with one.
Louis Pagot or
Pago, soldier in Latour’s company, son of Louis Pagot and Marie Billon, of
St. Jean du Monts,2 bishopric of Lucon.
Marie Meutrot (or Mentrot), widow of
Gabriel Mendet (Merdet? Suerdet? Rundes?),3 daughter of Pierre (Meutrot?)
and of Jeanne (Phildier?), of Montargi, bishopric of Sens.4
Witnesses
signing: (Barthelemy Justin de) Lamare; Jean Brudel, probably the
godfather recorded by the priest as dean Brideb in 1726 (Mob. mb 1:4);
(Jean?) Bigorne; Claude Vivier, wife of Pierre Le Roy (Roy) (Mob. mb
1:5).
1. The top of the record is waterstained and somewhat
faded.
2. St. Jean du Monts is in the department of
Vendée.
3. One man bearing a similar name was Gabriel Mentote,
whose marriage contract, dated January 15, 1734 at Saint-Philippe
(Illinois), mentions a Mobile girl. The bride-to-be was Marie Turpin,
natural daughter of Jean Baptiste Turpin and Marie Jeanne of Mobile. Belting,
Kaskaskia under the French Regime, 111.
4. The bride may be
from Montargis (department of Loiret, in the
province of
Bourgogne
), about
fifty kilometers from Sens.
Mob. mb I:4b-1
June 6, 1726
Baptism.
Claudette Agathe, female Negro child belonging to
Monsieur ——d—r, aide major of Fort Condé at Mobile.
2 Godfather:
Jean Bridel.
Godmother: Claudette Vivier.3
l.This record has
been crossed out but is still legible, although it is waterstained and
very pale.
2. Although the visible letters would fit the name
Jadart, he was called major of Mobile in
1725. Menier,Inventaire,
141. Yet, his promotions were to captain in 1732 and to major in
1733. Jean Jadart died in 1754 as lieutenant of the king and
commandant at Mobile. DeVille,
G CC, 43. On
marriages 1735-1748, his signature is De Bauchamps>. Mob. mb
1:11, 14, 20,
23, 24, 29,39. Most secondary sources use
Beauchamps.
3. The godmother signed <Claude vivier> on the
Pagot-Meutrot marriage the same day. She died one month later. DeVille, G
C C, 46.
Mob.mb I:4b-2
June 6, [1726] 1
Three banns published.
Pierre Lorandini, soldier in Marchand’s
Company, widower2 of Françoise Coilet or Colet, son of Pierre Lorandini
and of Marguerite Zabal of Florence, Italy.
Marie Anne Fourchet, widow
of Jean (La Case) dit’La Douceur, soldier in Marchand’s company,
daughter of Pierre Fourchet and of Jeanne Brestune (Brusturie?
Priestune?)3 of Epernay, Archbishopric of
Reims.
Witnesses named: Jacques
Branut dit La France,4 sergeant in Marchand’s company; Etienne
Tessier (Teyssier), sergeant in Latour’s company.
Witnesses
signing: (Jacques) Branut (dit La France),
husband of Marie Clere LeClere. (If Etienne Teyssier signed, it has faded
to invisibility.)
1. The year 1726 is used in brackets because
1720 was an error of omission by the priest. Neither the bride nor the
groom were widowed in 1720. Lacase’s daughter, Marie Jeanne, was born in
March 1726; Lorandini’s child, born in 1725, was a daughter of his first
marriage.
2. The priest erroneously used feminine forms
(<Veufve>>; <fille>>) in referring to the groom.
3. The Lorandini groom’s mother was recorded as Anne Marie Criolet
in 1735 (Mob. mb
1:10), and as Marie Françoise Coquerelle on a ship
list (Conrad, First Families, 1, 52).
4. The signature
of Jacques Branut appears to end with a <d> but could as well be a
((t)). See also Deville, G CC, 24.
Mob. mb I:5a-2—5b
December 2, 1726
One bann published, dispensed with two.
François Parant, master
tailleur of Montreal, son of Joseph
Parant, master tailleur, and of Magdeleine Maret, natives of
Quebec.
Marie Anne ArlG,1 widow
of the late Jean Favre, daughter of the late Jean Arlü, master builder,
and of Marguerite (Sautrais?)2 of La
Rochelle.
Witnesses named:
Monsieur de La Loire (Loëre) Flaucour, principal bookkeeper at Mobile; Estienne
Fievre, master carpenter, habitant; Estienne Dubordieu,
habitant; Noel Prouond or Provond; Pierre Votier
(Vautier).
Witnesses signing: (Louis Auguste) de La Loëre Flaucour;
E(tienne) Dubourdieu; (Etienne)
Fievre, husband of Marie Anne Grise;
(Pierre) Vautier, surgeon, spouse of Francoise Pacot;
(Noel) de
Prouond or Provond, spouse of Louise Waltre (Valde); (Jeanne Kerrouret) La
Dubordieu, wife of Etienne Dubourdieu.
1. One researcher found
Claude Parent (sic), born circa 1677, son of Pierre Parent and
Jeanne Badault and so an uncle of the groom. Jay Higginbotham to the
writer, April 14, 1983.
2. The cross identified as Marie Anne
Favre’s is presumably the bride’s
3. The surname of the bride’s
mother is difficult to read. The first letter could be eS, eL>>, or
<F>>; the last letter may be em> or er> rather than es>.
Mob. mb I:5b-1—6a
December 3, 1726
Dispensation of three banns; season of Advent.
Francois Compagnot,
soldier in Marchand’s Company, of Paris, son of Olivier Compagnot,
bourgeois of Paris, and of Marguerite G—i—lmar
(Guilmar? Grilinar?)1 of Paris, of the
parish of Saint Louis en l’lle, lie
Saint-Louis in central Paris.
Jeanne
Lafon, widow of Jacques Finot, baker, daughter of Andre Lafon of lie
d’Oleron and of Jeanne Renier of lie d’Oieron, bishopric of Saintes
(department of Charente-Maritime).
Witnesses named: Claude Pinsdé
dit Boulounois, sergeant in Marchand’s company; Pierre Dominique
Baillard, soldier in Marchand’s company; Pierre Domal or Domail, settler,
beaufrère2 (stepbrother or brother-in-law) of the bride; Nicolas
Aubrien, corporal in La Tour’s company.
Witnesses signing: (Pierre
Dominique) Baart; cross of Pierre Domail, brother-in-law of the bride;
cross of Claude Pinsdë, spouse of Marguerite Praux; cross of Nicoias
Aubrien (Aubrun?), who owned New Orleans property in 1731 (Maduell,
Census, 139).
1. Under the bride’s cross is a name scratched
out, perhaps the groom’s mother’s written by mistake: Marguerite gu— —
—r>>.
2. To identify Pierre Domai (Domail), the word frere
was written, then beau written over it, followed by frere.
His wife, Jeanne Lafond, was apparently a sister, or at least a
half-sister, of the bride Jeanne Lafond. A stepdaughter, Catherine Paux,
was probably the child with Pierre <<Daumaffle> and his wife on
the 1726 Mobile census (Maduell,
Census, 63. See also Mob. mb 1:22). Both Domaiie and his wife died
in 1747 (DeVille, G C C, 34).
Mob. mb I:6a-11
August 26, 1726
One
bann announced; dispensed with two.
Pierre Paquet, son of the late
Pierre Paquet and of Marthe Boular or Coular, habitant at Fort
Condé de la Mobile.
Magdelaine (Baudrau): natural daughter of Jean
Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, habitant of the Pascagoula
River settlement, a dependency of this parish, and of an <Indiennex 2
Witnesses signing: Etienne Fievre, master carpenter, husband of Marie
Anne Grise; Jean Bigorne, whose initial J> is written as part of the
RB>; the cross of René Sabourdin, then husband of Marie Clotilde Faucot
or Foucault, married Anne L’Ange in 1732 (Mob. mb 1:7); the cross of
Michel Paquet, possibly the groom’s brother, or an error of the priest in
identifying the groom’s mark.
1. This record is crossed out but is
still legible. The verso of folio 6 is blank.
2. The word
Indienne (an Indian woman) seems to have been used in contrast to
sauvagesse as a
distinction of social class or to identify Christian Indians.
Mob.
mb I:7a-11
February 25, 1732
Three banns
announced.
René Sabourdin or Sabourin,2 widower of Clothilde Faucot
(Foucot? Foucault?), son of René
Sabourdin
ofNiort in Poitou,
parish of St. André, and of Catherine Delzai (Delsai?).
.nne L’Ange,
of Troyes in Champagne, parish of St. Jean, widow of Francois Hupe (a
former
sailor), deceased,3 daughter of Antoine L’Ange,master
shoemaker, and of Marie of Troyes.
No witnesses are named. The only
signature is that of the priest.
1. The handwriting is small; the
record is stained and disintegrating.
2. In May, 1718, Sabourdin,
a soldier, was aboard La Victoire, bound for Louisiana (Con.
rad,First Families, I, 19). He married Foucault in 1721 (St. LNO,
mbA, no. 33).
3. The Hupe-L’Ange daughter, born at Bioxi, married
in 1740 (Mob. mb I:28a).
Mob. mb I:7a-2
April 16, 1732
Dispensed with two banns.
Pierre Guigon, soldier of the Alibamons
detachment, son of Louis Guigon, merchant, and of Marie Doucet of
Frisbourb en Briscot.1
Marie Paguot, daughter of Louis Paguot, soldier
of the Alibamons district, and of Jeanne Gualois of La Rochelle.
Witnesses named: Marchand,
captain; De La Lande, keeper of the storehouse; Durant, Lorains.
Witnesses signing: (Francois) Marchand (de Courcelles), captain;
(Charles) de Lalande, scribe for the king and keeper of the Mobile
storehouse in 1746; Jean Carmouche dit Lorain, locksmith;
the cross of Duranté.
1. The groom’s hometown was, apparently,
Freibourg.en-Brisgau, Germany, the old capital of the
Baden region.
Mob.
mb I:7a-3
April 16, 1732
One bann published, dispensed with two.
Jean Girard, soldier of the Alibamons detachment, son of Louis Girard,
merchant, and of Claude Rabot, native of Réme1 in Brittany.
Marie Daniau, daughter of Philippe Daniau, mason, and of Anne Thibauld
of La
Rochelle, St. Jean Parish.-
Witnesses named: Marchand, captain; de I.aLande, keeper of the
storehouse; Duranté; Lorain.
Witnesses signing: (Francois)
Marchand de Courcelles; Charles Marie de Lalande ;2 Jean Car. mouche
dit Lorain; the cross of Duranté.3
1.
Rëme must be Rennes, the prefecture
of the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
2. In 1735, he was
guardian of the royal storehouse in New Orleans. That year he contracted to
marry Charlotte Duval, widow of François Demouy (LHML, SCR, May 4,
May 5, 1735).
3. This writer has been unable to
identify Duranté.
Mob. mb I:7b-1
April 27, 1732
No
banns mentioned.
Jean and Jeanne Vieve (Genevieve), Negro slaves
belonging to Diron1 in the presence of Pouppar (dit Lafleur),2
econome3 of said Dkon’s habitation.
Witnesses
signing: (Joseph?) Poupar (dit Lafleur).
1. Diron,
mentioned as the owner of the Negro couple, is apparently Bernard,
identified in other documents as a chevalier de Saint
Louis, lieutenant of the king in Louisiana, commandant of Fort Condé. Mob. mb 1:11, 12, 14, 19, 24.
On a 1738 document dartaguiette> is added after his signature
<Diron, in a different hand. Mob. mb 1:20.
2. If Joseph, the
spouse of Marie Roy, he died at Fort Toulouse, March 12, 1739. DeVile, G
CC, 55.
3. The word econome means a steward,
housekeeper, or manager of another person’s property. Since the reference
is to Diron’s habitation, Pouppar must have been manager-overseer
of the land and its production.
Mob. mb I:7b-2
November 18, 1732
Three banns published.
Jean Baptiste Alexandre, Creole of this
colony, son of the late Jean Alexandre, master wood worker of Dieppe in Normandy, and of Marie Marguerite
DuFresne (also DuFrêne) of Paris, parish of St. Germain L’Auxerois,
habitante.
Françoise Hyppolitte Bodin, Creole of this
colony, daughter of Nicolas Bodin dit Miragouin, of Tours in Tourraine (department of Indre-et-Loire),
and of Françoise Pailly (also Paillé, Paihié) of Lorient, bishopric of
Vannes (department of Morbihan).
Witnesses named: Baudin and
Françoise Pailhié, the girl’s parents; Widow Dufresne, mother of the
groom; Marie Marguerite Alexandre, sister of the groom; Sieur Dubordieu;
Louis Populus, ecuyer, seigneur de St. Protais.
Witnesses
signing: N(icolas) Bodin,’ the bride’s father; cross of Françoise Paillié,
mother of the bride; Marie Marguerite Alexandre, sister of the groom;
cross of Marguerite Dufresne, mother of the groom; (Etienne) Dubordieu,
spouse of Jeanne Kerrourete; (Louis) Populus de St. Protés, who would
marry Jeanne Kerrourete in 1758.
1. The other signature n: bdina,
marked through, was rewritten, obviously because of the error. De
Miraguine is written in a different hand, written through the flourish
below Bodin, in a lighter, less flowing stroke. It is not Mathias’
penmanship, nor Bodin’s.
Mob. mb I:8a-1
February 16, 1733
Three banns announced.
Jean Baptiste Louis Braquet de Seben,
native of Stenay, parish of St. Gregoire, archbishopric
of Treves, son
of Sieur Claude Braquet de Seben and of Dame Marie Jeanne de Jossillot of
(Mousson?), archbishopric of Reims.1
Marie Praux of St. Jean
d’Angely (department of Charente.Maritime) in Saintonge, bishopric
of
Saintes, widow of Jean Baptiste Hervieux, daughter of Jean Praux and of
Anne Perotte.
Witnesses named, all habitans: Louis Deflandre,
Olivier Philippe, Francois Alum, Maurice
Durand.
Witnesses
signing: Ollivier (Philippe), (Louis) Deflancire, (Francois) Alleuin,
(Maurice) Durand,
cross of Anne (Alexandre dit) Chenet, wife of
Jean (Carmouche dit) Lorrain.
1. One town named Stenay is
near Verdun, in the department of Meuse; it
would be part of the archdiocese of Reims. Trèves (Treir) is on the Moselle River, in Germany.
Although Reims is in the French department of Marne, Braquet’s parents
could have been from Musson,
Belgium, just over the
border from the French department of Meuse, but Mouzon, near Stenay, is more
probable.
Mob. mb L.8a-2—8b
November 26, 1733
One bann announced.
Jean de Laplace dit Montford of St. Lo,
sergeant of Lusser’s Company,1 son of Nicolas de Laplace, bourgeois of St.
Ló, and of deceased Marie (des Sts. Gyrs?),2 parish of La Manne (Maune?),
bishopric of Bayeux.3
Marie Clere Le Clere of Gisors in Normandy,
widow of Jacques Branut dii’ La France, deceased, 4 daughter of
Adrien Clere, deceased, merchant of Pontoise in Picardy, and of Marie
Braye of Rouen.
Witnesses signing were: (Etienne) Fievre, La Bouloune
(Marguerite Colon, wife of Claude Pinsedé dii’ Boulonnois);
(Thomas) Asselinne; Ollivier (Philippe); cross of Jean Herauld (Heraut),
master woodworker, spouse of Marie Real; cross of Claude Pinsdée (père.
His son, Claude, was born in 1726.).
1. Joseph Christophe
Lusser died in 1736. MPA, I, 66n, 306, 319. At his widow’s marriage in
1744,
Laplace was called a sergeant in
Le Sueur’s company. Mob. mb 1:31.
2. The groom’s mother’s maiden
name may have been Des Sts. Gyrs, or that phrase may refer to the place of
origin. There is a St. Cyr-sur-Morin in Seine-et-Marne, and a place called
St. Geours-de-Maremne in the diocese of Bayonne.
3. St. LO is in the
department of Manche; Bayeux is in the neighboring department
of Calvados. Gisors is in the Eure department, and Rouen is in the
Seine-Maritime,just above the Eure. All are part of Normandy. Pontoise
is in the department of Seine-et-Oise.
4. Surely Jacques Branud or
Branut dit La France is the sergeant in
Marchand’s company, who signed Brannu— on the Lorandini-Fourchet marriage
certificate. Mob. bb 1:60. Branud, a native of St. Denis Parish in
France, was buried July 20,
1733. DeVile, G CC, 24.
Mob. mb L9a-1
January 5, 1734
One
bann published; dispensed with two banns.
Francois Guillaume Melisan,
surgeon, widower of Marie Anne de Rouseve,1 son of Joseph Hiacinthe
Melisan, cloth merchant, and of Clere Gamier of Toulon in Provence,
department of Var.
Magdeleine Boer, widow of François D’Eslande
(Deslandes),2 daughter of Pierre Boer, master baker, and Marie Guilot of
Notre Dame parish in La Rochelle, department of Seine- Maritime.
Witnesses named: Olivier (Philippe); (Etienne) Dubordieu; Francois
Alum (Alleuin), (Pierre) Verneuil, AIim.
Witnesses
signing: (Pierre) Verneuil, husband of Marie Anne
Gufflet; (Etienne) Dubordieu, husband of Jeanne Kerrourete; (François)
Alleuin, married in 1734 (Mob. mb 1:10); Ollivier (Philippe); (Jean)
Baptiste (Allein) Rouceve (perhaps the brother of Melisan’s deceased wife,
referred to as A1lin>). He was the son of Pierre Allein Rouçeve. The
<allemn> and <alin>> signatures of 1734 and 1737 seem to be
Pierre’s.
1. Melisan’s deceased
wife was apparently an Allein dit Rouçeve and sister of the witness
Baptiste Rouceve.
2. François Deslandes was buried July 13, 1733.
DeVifie, G CC, 33.
Mob. mb I:9a-2—9b
May 25, 1734
Three banns published.
Jean Philippe Roy, Creole of Mobile, son of
Jean Baptiste Roy, deceased, master cannoneer of Rochefort and of Renée
Gilbert of Tours.1
Catherine Vallade, Creole of Mobile, daughter
of Jean Baptiste Vallade (dit Drapeau), a Poiteyin, 2 and Marie
Pascault of Pleimer.3
Witnesses signing were: (G, Cj, or J)
Duchesne (probably Guilaume Duchesne, who died in 1741 at Mobile) ;4
(Pierre) Verneuil; (Marc Antoine) Huché; (Charles) de La Lande; Marguerite
Praux dit La Boulounes, wife of Claude Pinsedé —aron (Baron, Caron
or Barois?);5 Louis Urbain Berthelot; (Jean Baptiste) Valade (probably a
half-brother of the bride); Louis Brete, probably the son (but perhaps the
daughter Louise) of Louis Bret, brother of Marie Louise; (Jean Richard) de
Ia Houssaye,6 (ecuier, Sleur de Pontvilain, infantry ensign, twice
godfather in the fall of 1 736).
1. Tour must be Tours, department of
Indre-et-Loire.
2. Poitevin refers to a person from Poitiers or the Poitou region.
3. Pleimer is probably
Phmeur, near Vannes in Brittany.
4. DeVille,GCC,
35.
5. The baron or <Caron signature can hardly be
Antoine Baron, the groom of January
1735, since he made only a cross
on his own record. Mob. mb 1:11.
6. Preceding
<delthoussaye,> Le chev> may have been added by someone else,
although a faded document in Pointe Coupée shows —hev delahoussaye> as
his signature. BRDA, PtC,
11,9.
7. Mob. bb 1:114.
Mob. mb 19b-1
June 30, 1734
Three banns announced.
Jacques Roy, Creole of the old fort,1
master cannoneer, son of Jean Baptiste Roy, master cannoneer of Rochefort,
and of Renée Gilbert of Tours.
Catherine Lurat,2 daughter
of Felix Lurat, master cooper (barrel or cask maker) Gab—at3 and of
the late Marie Thérèse Corneille of La Rochelle.
Witnesses signing:
Felix Lurat, who died in 1738; (Etienne) Fievre, who lived until 1760;
Marie Joseph Rochon, perhaps the one born April 6, 1722 (Mob. bb 1:43);
(Francois) Alleuin, who married November 11, 1734 (Mob. mb 1:10); (Louis)
Deflandres, who lived until 1748 (Deville, G C C, 30); Marie
Lecler, the 1733 bride of de Laplace dit Monfort (Mob. mb 1:9);
(Marie?) Pascal;4 Belle Saquy, the same one who signed Bellezaguy the
following October (Mob. mb 1:10).
1. Above the groom’s name and
occupation is inserted <Creole du vieux forti> This could be Bioxi,
but more likely it refers to the earlier location of the Mobile fort.
2. The words <maistre
tonnelie> following the bride’s name are lined through, and <fille
de felix> is written over them. The phrase <en foi de qx is lined
through.
3. The word <Ga——at> looks like Gabfat. Its meaning
is not known; perhaps Calfat was meant.
4. Perhaps
the daughter of Jean Pascal and Elizabeth Real. Forsyth and Pleasonton, La. Mg. Contracts, 82.
M:pascal cannot be Marie Pascault of Pleimer who was deceased by the time
of her Valade daughter’s marriage one month earlier. This one was probably
the future bride (1739) of Francois Goudeau, brother of the 1734 groom
Michel Goudeau. Mob. mb 1:10.
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