THE LANDRY FAMILIES IN NORTH AMERICA ORIGIN, PROGENITORS AND PROGENY For a long time, it was assumed that the Landrys in Louisiana were the progeny of two seperate Acadian Landry lines. However it appears now that there are at least 5 separate lines or clans of Landrys that settled in North America. One settled or established at Ile d'Orleans in Québec (Guillaume Landry), two established in Acadia (René Landry, the elder and René Landry, the younger) one was a Swiss (Jean-Jacques Henri Landry), who established in Louisiana. And still another (the fifth) with the progeny of Etienne Nicholas Landry and Marie Adelaide Lepen through their son Alexandre-Charles Landry who came to Louisiana and married Louise-Antoinette Peytavin at Opelousas. It appears that Guillaume Landry's father, Maturin Landry, may have had come to Canada to the region of Trois Rivieres in the employ of the Jesuits sometime before the summer of 1643. His son Guillaume Landry was born at La Ventrouze-au-Perche, which was situated between four large French provinces: Normandie, Ile-de-France, Orleans and Maine. Guillaume emigrated to Canada sometime in 1653. To my knowledge, none of the progeny of Guillaume Landry established in Louisiana. René Landry, dit l' aisne (the elder), born in France in 1618 and believed to have arrived in Acadia ca. 1640. His progeny emigrated to Louisiana following their exile of the Acadian Expulsion. René Landry, dit le jeune (the younger)was born in France in 1634 and was married at Acadia in 1659. His progeny like those of René Landry, dit l' aisne (the elder), emigrated to Louisiana following their exile of the Acadian Expulsion. Jean Jacques Henri Landry and Susanne Celestine Sandoz settled in St. Martinville in the 1830s, and today, their progeny are concentrated in the Lafayette, Louisiana area. It can be assumed that either Rene Landry, the elder or Maturin Landry was the first Landry to have traveled to the north American continent. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In trying to research the fifth line, I was informed by Stanley LeBlanc that according to Dr. Carl A. Brasseaux' s 3 vol set, "The Foreign French Nineteenth-Century French Immigration into Louisiana", between 1820-1852, numerous landrys came into La. from France, Vol. I 1820-1839, p. 316 lists; Landre, C.,m, age 34 Landry, Baptiste,m,35 Landry, Marie Dugas,f,40 Vol. II 1840-1848, p. 202 lists: Landry, Gastave, age 5 Landry, Louis, age 40 Landry, Louise, age 37 Apparently the same family Vol. III 1849-1852 - no Landry entries Stanley also states that both the Alexandre-Charles Landry and the Petavin du Bousquet family lines were from France and well-connected with all the leading figures in Attakapas. Both were Chevaliers. There are 103 entries for Peytavin in Southwest Louisiana Records thru 1900 and some in records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. There is no record of Etienne Nicholas Landry, who was the father of Alexandre-Charles Landry, so apparently Alexandre-Charles Landry was the 1st generation of this line. His grandson [also named Alexandre Charles] returned to France, where he died. There were also Landri and L'Andry [was an engineer and involved with the Acadians] lines in the Colonial La. records. If anyone has any knowledge of any descendants of: Guillaume Landry married Gabrielle Barré; Jean-Jacques Henri Landry married Suzanne Celestine Sandoz, or Alexandre-Charles Landry married Louise-Antoinette Peytavin, Please send me some information on them. Don Landry don2717@aol.com don2717@cox.net