Hello Roger, Received your messages of the 14th. Find no reference to Gregoire or Charles Pellerin and families. Bill in NH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger A. Rozendal" <rogroz@swbell.net> To: <ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:26 PM Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] ACADIANS TO LOUISIANA WITH JOSEPH BROUSSARD / Firmin Landry > > Don, > > I have that Bonaventure Gaudin and Theotiste Thibodeau were imprisoned in > Halifax and came to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard, settling at Attakapas > where Bonaventure Gaudin died. I have found no church record of his death, > but the records are missing after October 1765. I have this family listed in > my Group III. Also in this group is Jean-Baptiste Bergeron with whom > Theotiste and her daughter are listed in 1766 Cabanocey census. Also in this > group is Bonaventure Gaudin married to Marguerite Bergeron, uncle to the > Bonaventure married to Theotiste Thibodeau. Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite are > siblings, making a tight knit family group all of whom fled to Cabanocey. > > Firmin Landry probably came to Louisiana in 1767 with the rest of the > Marylanders although I also have found no record of his comming. He probably > married Theotiste in 1769 and immediately went to Attakapas where in the > 1769 Attakapas census (exact date unknown) is listed: > > Firmen Landry age 42 > Wife > Joseph son age 17 > Saturnin son age 15 > Elena daughter age 19 > Magdeleine daughter age 13 > Barbe daughter (sic)[Gaudin] age 8 > > I believe they went back to Attakapas because this is where the siblings of > Theotiste were: > > Anselme > Anne > Magdeleine > Marie-Louise > > I will be out of town the next two weeks, but later I will try to document > my Groups II and III the way I did the receipt holders and post them. > > Roger A. Rozendal > rogroz@swbell.net > > > > > > From: Don2717@aol.com > > Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 14:36:34 EDT > > To: ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com, rogroz@swbell.net, LANDRY-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [ACADIANS TO LOUISIANA WITH JOSEPH BROUSSARD / Firmin Landry > > > > > > Roger: > > > > > > Do you know if part of the group that came from Halifax in May 1765 and > > settled on the Mississippi River included Théotiste Thibodeau, d/o Charles > > Thibodeau and Brigette Breau and Bonaventure Godin and their daughter . They > > were > > also prisoners at Halifax and Theotiste was enumerated in the 1766 census of > > Cabahannocee living with Jean-Baptiste Bergeron and Marguerite Bergeron. > > > > Théotiste later married Firmin Landry who had been exiled in Maryland. What > > connection did the families of Firmin Landyr and Théotiste Thibodeau and > > Françoise Thibodeau have. > > > > Did Firmin Landry stay at Cabahannocee with Jean-Baptiste Bergeron and > > Marguerite Bergeron. before marrying Théotiste and moving to the Attakapas??. > > > > When did Firmin leave for the Attakapas??? > > > > > > > > > > > > I have never been able to find any documentation or record that gives the > > date that Firmin Landry widower of Françoise dit Elizabeth Thibodeau. Arrived > > in Louisiana. It is apparent that his wife Françoise dit Elizabeth Thibodeau > > died sometime after the July 7, 1763 Census of the Acadians at Oxford, > > Maryland, > > in 1763. "LANDRY Firmin, Elizabeth his wife, Joseph and Saturin Landry, > > Eleine and Magdne. Landry" ("THE FRENCH PRESENCE IN MARYLAND p. 193 "Acadians > > in > > the 1763 Census ? Oxford") > > > > Firmin is last recorded in Maryland when he witnessed a wedding at St. > > Joseph's mission at Tuckahoe (Cordova) near Easton, Maryland. This was the > > Catholic > > Parish for all of the Catholics in this part of Maryland's Eastern Shore. The > > parish records shows a Firmin Landry along with Simon Landry being a witness > > to the marriage of Armand Babin and Anastasia Landry on January 14, 1766. > > Whether this was Firmin Landry m. Francoise Thibodeau, or not, we cannot be > > absolutely sure. But is probably a reference to him. This is the last record > > we have > > of Firmin in Maryland. > > > > The first listing of Firmin Landry in Louisiana is found in the Brand Book at > > St. Martinville dated 1769, and he and he is enumerated in the 1774 > > Attakapas census with his 2nd wife , 6 children 25 cattle, 7 horses, 8 mules, > > 8 pigs > > and 6 sheep. > > > > Firmin's fifth child, a daughter Françoise Landry was born to his second wife > > Théotiste Thibodeau, widow of Bonaventure Gaudin. On 22 October 1770. This > > means that Firmin and Thétiste were married shortly after Firmin arrived in > > Louisiana ca 1766-67 sometime before February or January 1769, and after the 7 > > July 1763 census at Oxford, Maryland, where Firmin's first wife was enumerated > > with the family at Oxford. > > > > While Firmin is in Maryland, or in oute to Louisiana, his second wife to be, > > Théotiste Thibodeau, (Charles Thibodeau and Brigette Breau) was a 26 years old > > widow of Bonaventure Godin and she, along with her 5 year old daughter were > > enumerated in the 1766 census of Cabahannocee (St. James Parish) living with > > Jean-Baptiste Bergeron and Marguerite Bergeron > > > > This would mean that Firmin Landry and Théotiste Thibodeau would have been > > married no later than January / February 1770. > > > > So we know that he was in the Attakapas at least by 1769, and given the time > > it would have taken to sail to Louisiana, meet and marry Thétiste, establish > > in the Attakapas, register a brand and have a child, we can assume that he had > > arrived in Louisiana sometime in 1767-68 and very likely, aboard the > > Schooner "VIRGIN", that left Maryland n late March, 1767. > > > > Firmin's connection to the family of Joseph Broussard: > > Rene Broussard was married to Firmin Landry's daughter Magdeleine Landrry and > > after Magdeline's death Rene Broussard, widower of Magdeleine Landry married > > Marie-Gaudin d/o Bonaventure Gaudin and Theotiste Thibodeau. 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