This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Louisiana: RIGGS BELLARD CASTILLE HAWKINS PITRE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HSDBAIB/1469 Message Board Post: I am researching my husband's RIGGS family in Louisiana. His father was Felicien Riggs, whose parents were Felix RIGGS and Lucy BELLARD. They were French-speaking Creoles of mixed race, living in the Lawtell/Opelousas area in St. Landry Parish but not I believe they moved there from Acadia Parish (Church Point area). Felicien's grandfather might have been Sam REED or REID. I am not sure why the family name might have changed. This info was verbal from an elderly RIGGS aunt. Felicien was a sharecropper at one time and a parish deputy before he retired. If anyone can help, I would appreciate it. Other family names include BELLARD and CASTILLE. Thank you, Joan Riggs