Following is all of the information I have on Charles Quebedeaux s/o Joseph l'Espagnol Quebedeaux. If there are any errors or corrections needed please respond. Generation No. 1 Joseph Québédeaux dit l'Espagnol and Mariannne (Marie Anne) Antoinette (Antoine) Beau (sometimes listed as Marie Lest) JOSEPH "L'ESPAGNOL"1 QUEBEDO was born Abt. 1700 in Paris, France? Malaga, Spain? Canary Islands???. He met MARIE ANNE ANTOINE BEAU. She was born Bef. 1711 in Lest? Born Paris, France?. "It is believed that Joseph Quebedeaux, his wife Marie Antoine Beau and their 2 daughters, Marie Joseph, Quebedeau and Marie Jeanne Quebedeau came to the Illinois country in the Renaud Concession. It is not known if Joseph Quevedo actually worked for Phillippe François Renault in the lead mines. Some info on Joseph Quebedeaux was found in the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) Unfortunately the information consists of only brief card index information, such as the "Contract to hire Quebedo by La Pointe" in the year 1744. It is not known what he was hired to do. (Missy Burke's website) It is also not known which Quebedo was hired -- Joseph or Charles? The Quebedeauxs were in the Illinois country as early as September 1723 and the records mention Qebedee, the younger in several different cases where he was one of several witnesses to a transaction. It is not known which Quebedo it was or why the term "the younger" was used. Notes for JOSEPH "L'ESPAGNOL" QUEBEDO compiled by : I happened upon the following 1781 entry in Appendix II of "Marriage Dispensations in the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas - 1786 - 1803," by Shirley Chaisson Bourquard, 1980, Polyanthos, Inc. King Charles III of Spain confirms decree of March 23, 1776 that consent of parents must be obtained before matrimony. The occasion in a lawsuit brought before the Real Audiencia of Mexico on Feb. 6, 1781 following hearings before the Alcalde Mayor of the City of Valladolid of Michoacan (Mexico) in the present State of Moretia by Don Josef Antonio de Peredo against Don Fernando Garcio de Quevedo for marrying his daughter Dona Mariana de Peredo without his consent. (Found a Valladolid, Mexico located in Yucatan Peninsula on Route 180. Appears to be in the existing state of Yucatan, vice Michoacan. It also appears that QUEVEDO is a place name.) The following was extracted from the book, "Illinois: A History of the Prairie State" by Robert P. Howard, 1972, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. By 1717, during the short-lived Law regime, the Illinois, which had been a dependency of Canada, was placed under the government of Louisiana. In search of gold, Philippe Renault, the French director of mines, arrived in 1720 after stopping at Santo Domingo to purchase Negro slaves. Glenn R. Conrad's, "The First Families of Louisiana, Volume II," Claitor's Publishing Division, 1970, provides a compiled and translated listing dated January 1, 1726 which represents the Census of the Inhabitants of Louisiana. Joseph L'ESPAGNOL is listed among the people found in Illinois. The census shows that he had a wife and 2 (?) children on 5 arpents of cleared land. Also listed is Antoine L'ESPAGNOL on 5 arpents of cleared land. No wife or children are listed for Antoine, nor is there a clear relationship shown for Joseph and Antoine. Charles R. Maduell, Jr's, "The Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana From 1699 Through 1732," Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1972. Notes on the January 1732 census of Illinois indicate that Illinois was under the jurisdiction of Louisiana with government from New Orleans. The census of the fort included Fort Chartres, Cascassias, Cahoquias, and the mines of M. RENAULT. "ANTOINE the spaniard" is listed among the inhabitants of Cacassias in Illinois. The census does not provide a column for wife, but does provide for listing the numbers of legitimate children (LC), natural children and orphans (UC), negroes and negreses belonging to the Company of the Indies (NS), Negro children (both sexes) (NC), and Indian slaves (IS). There are no entries under any of these columns for Antoine. At the same time that Antoine is shown as "the spaniard," elsewhere --at the concession of M. RENAULT (at his mine)-- we find "QUEVEDO, the spaniard," with 5 legitimate children. Still unsure if there is a relationship between Antoine and Joseph L'ESPAGNOL, but it appears that Joseph is now known as "QUEVEDO." So far, I have been able to identify only 4 children belonging to Joseph QUEVEDO. With further research we might learn that Antoine was a child of Joseph, but I'm not ready to take the giant leap of faith. More research needed. Generation No. 2 CHARLES QUEBEDEAUX, 1751 Son of Joseph Québédeaux dit l'Espagnol and Mariannne (Marie Anne) Antoinette (Antoine) Beau Charles Québédeaux (Joseph Le Quebedeaux and Marie Antoine Beau (sometimes listed as Marie Lest), native of the city and Diocese of Paris) b. 3 February 1750 at Village of Chartres In Colonial Illinois and died at Pointe Coupée before 1802. He moved to False River at Pointe Coupée, with his sister Marie-Françoise Québédeau and her husband Nicholas Prevost, where he married Marie‑ Catherine RECURON daughter of Guillaume Recuron and Marie‑Anne Deruis on 24 October, 1776. wit. Marlin Soudry and Marie Anne Deruis (PCP‑2, part 2, 185) also (PCP‑4, 129) (B.R. vol 2, pp 610‑611) He later moved from Pointe Coupée to the northern part of the Attakapas enentually settling near Bayou Téche in vicinity of present Arnaudville. Charles Québédeaux was a soldier in Company of Militiamen of the Attakapas, formed 20 June 1774. Marie‑Catherine RECURON was the daughter of Guillaume Recuron and Marie‑ Anne Deruis and was born 12 jan 1762, bt 21 jan 1762 in Pointe Coupee, LA. She died in Opelousas at home of Jean Pierre Stelly on 5 Dec 1818 at age 60 yrs.?. Guillaume Recuron, called Dauphine, Soldier in Mazeliere's company, native of St. Alban (Francois and Louise Fabre) m. 21 June 1760 Marianne Deruit (Deruis) (Alexandre decd and Mariane Bourcelier wit.: Marianno, Gerard, Dural. (PCP‑3, 69 ) B.R. Vol 1 p. 212) issue: Louise, 1769; Marguerite, 1767; Marie, 1764; Marie Catherine, 1762 m. Charles Quebedeaux (Joseph Quebedeaux and Marie Lest) 24 Oct. 1776; Francois, 1773; Jean‑Francois,1771) ("LOUISIANA POPULATION ‑ des Forts Francais‑d'Amerique ‑ Tome II (Brown ‑ Dean "The Village of Chartres In Colonial Illinois 1720‑1765") In 1763, by the Treaty of Paris, the area east of the Mississippi River was surrendered to the British, and although the troops did not reach Fort de Chartres until 1765, most of the people in New Chartres and St. Phillyppe sold their land and moved on to other parts of French Louisiana or returned to Québec. This could be the reason that Charles Québédeaux accompanied his sister, Marie‑Françcoise Québédeaux and brother‑in‑law Nicolas Provost, on the trek southward sometime in the 1760's. Settling with his relatives on False River in Pointe Coupée, Charles Québédeaux married Marie‑Catherine Recuron a native of the area in 1776, and thereby became a progenitor of all the Québédeauxs who now live in Louisiana and Southeastern Texas. "Probably discouraged by lack of oportunities in the Pointe Coupée area, during the mid‑1790s, Charles and his family moved to the northern part of the Attakapas,. where his four sons married and established their own households. Sons François (m. 1810 Céléstine LaGrange), Toussaint (m. 1813 Marie‑Barbé Frossart), and it may be reasonable to guess that the Québédeaux families who today reside between Opelousas and Lafayette (and who comprise a fourth of the state's Québédeaux households) all descend from those three brothers." (Robert C. West's "ATLAS OF LOUISIANA SURNAMES OF FRENCH AND SPANISH ORIGIN") Charles m. Marie RECURON (OP) (Selected Acadian and Louisiana Church Records Vol. 1 Page R - 323) ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour