In a message dated 10/19/03 11:11:46 PM Central Daylight Time, KATheriot@aol.com writes: << why must everyone assume that the woman listed as Elizabeth is his wife? Could it not be his sister Elisabeth LANDRY, who would have been around age 25, and is listed nowhere >> Your suggestion that the Elizabeth mentioned in the census of 1763 could have been his sister has merit. In the case of my grandfather, whose mother died shortly after his birth, was raised by his mother's sister, who later married his father. This was a commomn practice, where the unwed sister would move in and care for her sister's children. However the census states: "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") How do you account for the statement: "LANDRY Firmin, Elizabeth his wife" Don Landry