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. On 9 January > 1779 >