I haven't sent out my brick wall to this list yet. This is the couple that have stumped my family for decades now. We can't seem to find mention of them except from their son's few documents. Their son is my gr-gr grandfather and he would not have anything to do with his family nor would he talk about them. No one knows why. He only states who they are when he is married. And they are stated as his parents when he dies. So far this is the only mention of them and no one has been able to find the couple. Maybe I will get lucky one of these days? Still keeping my fingers crossed. Jean MAURICE & Frances SEMOUR/LEMOUR/SYMOUR Their son Jean MAURICE was also known as John MORRIS. The family started spelling the last name of MAURICE as MORRIS with my gr-gr grandfather. I assume because this is the English pronunciation of MAURICE. Here are the documents where the couple are mentioned: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Their son's death certificate: Name: John Morris Death Date: 09 Mar 1939 Death Place: Thibodeaux, , Lafourche, Louisiana Gender: Male Race (original): W Race (standardized): White Age: 82 Estimated Birth Year: 1857 Birth Place: Lake Charles, Louisiana Marital Status: Widowed Spouse's Name: Marie N Noquin Father's Name: John Morris Mother's Name: Frances Symoure Film number: 2358376 Image Number: 00089 Certificate Number: 3738 Digital Folder Number: 4216102 Their son's marriage: "taken from Father HEBERT's South Loisiana Records: 1876-1880" MORRIS, John (Jean & Francoise SEMOUR) m. 2 Dec. 1878 Pauline NAQUIN (Thib. Ct. Hse. : Mar. v. 21, # 175) MAURICE, Jean (Jean & Francoise LEMOUR) m. 2 Dec 1878 Pauline NAQUIN ( Thib. Ch. : v. 9, p. 123) Family rumor said that Jean MAURICE was from Paris, France and Frances/Francoise SEMOUR/LEMOUR/SYMOURE was born in London, England. These are unproven though. I have a picture of their son (Jean II). He has blue eyes and dark hair but is graying. Fair skinned. I mention this because there were several MAURICE families of color and I don't think this is his line. So, if anyone has further information on Jean/John MAURICE/MORRIS & Francoise SEMOUR/LEMOUR/SYMOURE would you please send it my way? Thank you, Shelia KRAEMER SALOMONE

I forgot to ask another question regarding this query/help request. Does anyone know who the MAURICE and SEMOUR/SYMOURE progenitors were? I might try to work backwards. And another thing I thought about doing was to list all MAURICE names that can be found in LA. (Just do genealogy trees with this name.). And then try to group them into families. Has anyone ever done this kind of strategy and been successful with finding their long lost brick wall ancestor? -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Shelia Salomone Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 5:18 PM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: [LAORLEAN] My brick wall from the newbie I haven't sent out my brick wall to this list yet. This is the couple that have stumped my family for decades now. We can't seem to find mention of them except from their son's few documents. Their son is my gr-gr grandfather and he would not have anything to do with his family nor would he talk about them. No one knows why. He only states who they are when he is married. And they are stated as his parents when he dies. So far this is the only mention of them and no one has been able to find the couple. Maybe I will get lucky one of these days? Still keeping my fingers crossed. Jean MAURICE & Frances SEMOUR/LEMOUR/SYMOURE Their son Jean MAURICE was also known as John MORRIS. The family started spelling the last name of MAURICE as MORRIS with my gr-gr grandfather. I assume because this is the English pronunciation of MAURICE. Here are the documents where the couple are mentioned: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Their son's death certificate: Name: John Morris Death Date: 09 Mar 1939 Death Place: Thibodeaux, , Lafourche, Louisiana Gender: Male Race (original): W Race (standardized): White Age: 82 Estimated Birth Year: 1857 Birth Place: Lake Charles, Louisiana Marital Status: Widowed Spouse's Name: Marie N Noquin Father's Name: John Morris Mother's Name: Frances Symoure Film number: 2358376 Image Number: 00089 Certificate Number: 3738 Digital Folder Number: 4216102 Their son's marriage: "taken from Father HEBERT's South Loisiana Records: 1876-1880" MORRIS, John (Jean & Francoise SEMOUR) m. 2 Dec. 1878 Pauline NAQUIN (Thib. Ct. Hse. : Mar. v. 21, # 175) MAURICE, Jean (Jean & Francoise LEMOUR) m. 2 Dec 1878 Pauline NAQUIN ( Thib. Ch. : v. 9, p. 123) Family rumor said that Jean MAURICE was from Paris, France and Frances/Francoise SEMOUR/LEMOUR/SYMOURE was born in London, England. These are unproven though. I have a picture of their son (Jean II). He has blue eyes and dark hair but is graying. Fair skinned. I mention this because there were several MAURICE families of color and I don't think this is his line. So, if anyone has further information on Jean/John MAURICE/MORRIS & Francoise SEMOUR/LEMOUR/SYMOURE would you please send it my way? Thank you, Shelia KRAEMER SALOMONE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message