This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TS.2ADE/504.534 Message Board Post: Francois Emile Lazarus Girard was b Sep 2 1825 in Mobile, the son of Francois Emile Girard & Isabella Grelot (also spelled Gollotte). Francois Sr & Isabella m Nov 16 1824 Mobile. Isabella was b Apr 22 1806 Moblie, the daughter of Barthelemy Grelot Jr & Marie Margaret Bosarge. Francois m Constance Olivia Eslava Oct 17 1849 in Mobile. According to census and other sources their children were Isabella Emaline b 1850, Francis Emile Jr b abt 1853, Alice H b abt 1855 (m John W Herren Oct 5 1877 Mobile), Adele O b Jun 20 1858, d Apr 12 1945 (she is buried in Magnolia Cem, Mobile), James E b abt 1860, and Olivia M b aft 1860 (m Marion Francis Ray Jun 27 1900). In 1851 Bartholomy Grelot left his estate to Emile; it was contested.