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/1090.2 Message Board Post: Source of the following marriages is "Love's Legacy: The Mobile Marriages, Recorded in French, Transcribed, with Annotated Abstracts in English, 1724-1786" by Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine (Copyright 1985 University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette. Published by The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana.) Edsel Wells Birmingham, AL _______________________________________________ *Antoine Narbone (Narbonne), habitant, native of Agen in Guyenne, Saint Catherine Parish, son of Louis Narbonne and of Marie Louise, m. October 10, 1765 (Mob.mb.I:47b-2) Marie Jeanne Kreps (Krebs), native of Mobile, daughter of Hughes Rene' Krebs, inhabitant at Pascagoula, and of Marie Joseph (Simon dit) Lapointe. page 333 *Narbone had learned to sign his name since June 14, (1764), when he married Marie Louise Dinant. Mob.mb I:47. ___________________________________________ *Jean Gradenigo, merchant, native of Venice, Italy, son of Antoine Gradenigo and Marie Bettio, m. March 17, 1766 (Mob.mb.I:49a-1)Marguerite Kreps, native of this parish, daughter of **Jugues Rene' Kreps (Krebs), habitant, and ***Marie Josephe (Simon dit) LaPointe March 17, 1766. page 345 *Jean Gradenigo and Marguerite were living at the Opelousas post (Louisiana) before 1778. **His name was Hugo Ernestus Krebs, as he signed in 1739 (Mob.mb.I:25). His testament, dated 1776, is listed at New Orleans Notarial Archives, General Index, 1771-1833. ***She died in 1751, and Krebs married Marie Anne Chauvin dit Joyeuse. ______________________________________________________ *Joseph La Bat, native of the parish of Cars, Diocese of Bordeaux, son of Francois Labbat, deceased, and Dame Marie Faure, m. June 8, 1778 (Mob.mb.I:51a-4) Marie Therese Krebs, daughter of Hugo (Ernestus) Krebs, deceased, and Marie (Anne) Chauvin, all inhabitants of this parish. page 367 *He and his wife were living at Mobile in 1786. Census, Mobile, 1786 ___________________________________ Francois Krebs, son of deceased Hugues (Ernestus) Krebs and Marie Joseph (Simon dit) LaPointe, deceased, m. December 02, 1778 (Mob.mb I:52a-3), Dame Helene Maurau (Moreau), widow of Jacques Lamy, deceased, daughter of Joseph Morau (Moreau) deceased, and Marie Jeanne Dauphin, deceased. page 379 ____________________________________ Raphael Krebs, major son of Hugo Ernestus Krebs, deceased, and Marie Anne Chauvin ditte Joyeuse, originally from the town and parish of New Orleans, and living in this parish m. Septebmber 18, 1786 (Mob.mb I:55b) Marie Catherine Dupont, minor daughter of Jean Claude Dupont, deceased, and Marie Jeanne Guillory, originally from, and living in, this parish of Mobile. page 395 ______________________________________________________