Additional primary data received.... we are really cookin' here!!! 15 NOVEMBER 1900 AUGUST V. RIGOB [SON OF ANTOINE RIGOB & CLEMENCE VOGT] AND MISS LOUISE VERLOIN DE GRUY DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH [F? T?] VERLOIN DEGRUY & JOSEPHINE A FOUCHER] WITNESSES: MARIE RIGOB AND ? PHILIP? HEILOD? [CAN’T READ] ------rec’d 12-13-04 Henry Degruy [son of Etienne Bernard and ? 20 Apr 1820 Etienne Anthime [son of Etienne Bernard &???Azelie Bachemin 2 Sep 1825 Marie Coralie Henriette Degruy 23 Aug 1823 BC Raoul Verloin [son of ? Verloin, 39 and Marie Odile Derbes,33] 9 July 1882 --------------------------------------------- 1422 Miguel Degruys 20 May 1791 Have a record in Spanish so I am totally lost... seems to be a birth certificate. Signed by Fr. Luis De Quintanilla? Here are some of the essentials Names mentioned are: Antonio Duffouchar Degruys, y de Da Henriquetta Laissard... sus abuelos paternos Dn Juan Bautista Degruys, natural de la Cuidad? de Paris, y Da Maria Teresa Offraire, natural de esta Parroquia; y los maternos Dn Estevan Laissard natural de Rochefort, y De Helena Fazende, natural de esta Parroquia; .... Dn Miguel Fortier, y Da Maria Celeste Tomassin..... ----------------------------------- JOSEPH ANTHIME VERLOIN DEGRUY BIRTH CERTIFICATE 28 DEC 1849 ANTHIME VERLOIN DEGRUY AND JOSEPHINE LAURE HARANG [NATIVE OF JEFFERSON PARISH] Paternal grandparents: Joseph Verloin De Gruy and Marie Heloise Saulet Maternal grandparents: Louis Harang and Madam Dugary? Livaudais ====== Marie Felide Degruy birth Certificate 23 November 1847 Joseph Camille Deguy and Ore Leonide St. Amand Record page 1206 [1246] ========== Marie Verloin De Gruy birth certificate 17 October 1848 Anthime Verloin De Gruy & Josephine Laure Harang paternal grandparents: Joseph Verloin De Gruy and Marie Heloise Saulet Maternal grandparents: Louis harang and Dugay Liveaudais [can’t read] Gagnet Marie Cecile Alphonse Elodie Degruy F W 09/30/1836 9 315 k ===================== DeGruy Azelie Etienne Bernard Marie Azelie Bachemin [a native of the Parish of Plaquemine] F W 10/10/1836 8 243 Maternal grandparents: Antoine De Gruy and Marie Henriette Layssard; Maternal grandparents: Jacques Bachemin & Marie Henriette Layssard. ====================== Have complete birth records for the following; some of these list grandparents and sponsors; others do not; but can't take the space to give all of those entries or street names in this email: DeGruy Charles Joseph Etienne Bernard Marie Azelie Bachemin M W 03/17/1839 8 243 Fortier Ida Jacques Omer Augustine Milanie F W 09/13/1842 7 640 Laperle Degruy Fortier Alice Jacques Omer Augustine Milanie F W 04/06/1844 7 641 Laperle Degruy DeGruy Marie Anaise Etienne Bernard Marie Azelie Bachemin F W 09/07/1844 8 244 Jaquet Joseph Alcee Gustave Ursin Marie Corinne Verloin DeGruy M W 10/07/1845 8 400 Nogues Zachary George Marc Pierre Felix Lise Dufouchar Degruy M W 03/22/1847 9 685 Fortier Adele Omer Augustine Laparle Degruy F W 01/02/1849 9 1498 Nogues Henry Allen Pierre Felix Lise Dupoucheu Degruy M W 11/20/1850 11 613 Desforges Louise Alice Patrick Adolphe Adelaide Olympe Degruy F W 09/21/1852 13 253 Planchard Louis Randolph John James Edgar Antoinette Amelia DeGruy M W 05/06/1854 14 293 Degruy ----- Baptiste Leda Berthlot M W 07/18/1856 17 169 [Looks like “T” Baptiste Degruy, but could be “J” Baptiste Barstow Henry Degruy John Pauline Greeg M - 02/07/1865 50 354 Saquet {Jaquet] Anne Elida DeGruy Gustave Ursin Marie Corine Verloin F W 11/21/1865 38 712 --------------------------- And a couple of non-primary entries: FROM THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, V. 13, 1930, PAGE 326 DECEMBER 19 MARRIAGE CONTRACT of Sr. Pierre Couturier, surgeon in the Fourth Company of the Swiss Regiment of Karrer, son of Benoist Couturier and Marie David, a native of Tassaon in Poitou, Bishopric of Poitiers; and Miss Marie Françoise Le Kintrek, minor daughter of Jean Joseph Le Kintrek, called Dupont and of Anne Marie Pose, a native of New Orleans. Signed: Couturier, mari jeanne Le Kintrek. lekintrek. daniell bops. Mentzinge. joly. julie leveque. francoise Le Kintrek. Cantrelle Chantalou. Henry, notary. In Margins: Dec. 19, (25298) fo. 26. (3915) 6 pp. Marriage contract Pierre Couturier, surgeon 4th Com- pany, Swiss Regiment of Karrer, and marie Fran- coise Le Kintrek [note... a year is not given on the page I have; must have occurred earlier in the article...but according to other information I have, the year was 1744] I do not know if you consider that an excerpt like this in the La Historical Quarterly “counts” as a vital record.... -------------------------------------------- This isn’t a primary record but I have a statement dated 20 April 1980 from a Mrs. Mary B. Oalmann, Military Historian of the Louisian Army and Air National Guard: Juan Bautista de Gruy - First Lieut - Served in teh German militia seventeen years, four months and fourteen days; in this Regiment eight years, ten months and nineteen days. Took part in the surprise of the Fort Butte siege and taken of Baton Rouge in 1779; sige and taken of Mobile in 1780. Alemanes [Militia] Records Transcribed from the Libros de Vita et Moribus y Servicios, Years 1792, and 1800, which are preserved in the general archives of the Indies. Seville, Spain, in papeles procedents de Cuba. Packet #161. Reference: WPA Volume #250, page 53 Rosters - Spanish Infantry, General Galvez, 1779-82. ----------------------------------------- Terrebonne Life Lines, Vol. 23 No. 3 Fall 2004 page 199 Lafourche Parish Pension Applications at NSU abstract by Goldie Legendre Application on file in the Archives of Nichollls State University, the numbers proceding entry are file numbers at Nicholls. Other pension applications may be found in the Civil Suits on the 2nd floor at Lafourche Parish Court House in Thibodaux. 92-6-14 Widow of Dumini Verloin Degruise, (Charlotte Falgout) for service in War of 1812 under Capt. Francois Legrendre. English, poor condition, stained. May 5, 1852 Names in document; Louis S. Allain of Lafourche, Zenon Chauvin (affiant), Leon Falgout (affiant), Dumini Verloin Degruise, Francois Legrendre, Charlotte Falgout (witness) J. E. Toups (witness)