Re: Arrival port for Fontenots
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Re: Arrival port for Fontenots
Thomas Scott 9/12/01
Dear Thomas,
Source of the following is: "Love's Legacy: The Mobile Marriages Recorded in French, Transcribed, with Annotated Abstracts in English, 1724-1786" by Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine, page 11
Mob.bb I:53a-4
May 28, 1724
No banns mentioned.
(Jean) Fontaille, soldier in de Mandeville's Company
(Marie Lemir), widow of deceased (Jean Baptiste Valade dit) Drapeau (le Noir)
Witnesses signing were: (Louis) Bourbon (dit Ossement or D"Osseman); Andre' (Roberte) Guil(lette), wife of Louis Bourbon
"Love's Legacy...", page 115
Mob.mb I:15b-1
July 24, 1736
One bann announced; dispensed with two.
Pierre Paul Loysel, serruier (locksmith), employed at Mobile by the king, son of Martin Loysel and Magdeleine (Perrot?), of St. Jacques Parish, Clisson, bishopric of Nantes.
Marie Lemir, widow of Jean Fontayne (Fontaille), daughter of Charles Lemir and Marie Barillet of ST MALO, PARISH OF ST. VINCENT.
Footnote: Loysel had married in 1729 Marie Catherine Boquer of Backde of Ypres, Belgium. She died in 1736. Pierre Paul Loisel died in 1745, less than three years after Marie Lemir. St. LNO mb A, no. 313; DeVille, G C C, 47
Source of the following is: "Fort Toulouse Colonials: A Compendium of the Colonial Families of Central Alabama 1717-1823" page 24, by Johnnie Andrews, Jr., Bienville Historical Society, 1987
"Members of D'Erneville's Company 1745 #1230
"The following compilation was officially titled 'List of French Troops in Louisiana Arranged by Company' and dated 1745. Contained in the list is a roster of the members of the D'Erneville Company.
"Because various members of the company appear to be members of the garrison of both Fort Tombecbe and Fort Toulouse at the same time, it was not possible to ascertain at which post the company was located. It might be noted that your author held consultations with historians and genealogists' Winston De Ville, Jacqueline Vidrine, Prieur Jay Higginbotham and Francis Ferdinand Escoffier in an effort to find the answer to this interesting puzzle.
"Because no definitive decision could be made, I include the list 'as is'. Hopefully, some day historians will be able to solve this dilemma."
"Fort Toulouse Colonials..." page 26
"Muster Roll for the Fort Toulouse Garrison
March 1, 1762
AC, C 2c, 52:n.p."
There was no Berthelot listed at Ft. Toulouse.
I found Louis Urbain Berthelot listed as a witness at the marriage of Jean Philippe Roy and Catherine Vallade, May 25, 1734, at the Mobile Church. "Love's Legacy...", page 71
I found the marriage of Mathis Berthelot, native of Chate---Isle d'Oleron, Notre Dame Parish, Diocese of Saintes in Saintonge, son of Pierre Berthelot and of Berthelemy Pinaceud, June 16, 1738, Mobile Church. Mathis married Mrgueritte Panyouasas, native of Fort Conde of Mobile. "Love's Legacy...", page 165
I found Martial Berthelot, gunsmith for the king, native of Ile d'Oleron, St. Jean Parish, legitimate son of Pierre Berthelot and of Barthelemy Pinnaceau, married May 15, 1747, Mobile Church, Anne Chiardel, native of this parish (Mobile). "Love's Legacy...", page 263
I found Louis Urbain Berthelot, s/o Urbain Berthelot and Marie Lemir, bt. August 12, 1720, Notre Dame Cathedral, Mobile, AL. (Note: I failed to enter the source.)
Source of the following: Louisiana Genealogical Register, V. XXIII, No. 2, June 1976, Correction
In Volume XXII, Number 4, December 1975, pages 387-391 there appeared an article, THE FIRST FONTENOT FAMILIES by Jacqueline O. Vidrine and Elaine G. Pucheau. The first two pages of this material were omitted, but appear below:
THE FONTENOTS OF LOUISIANA
Jean Louis Fontenot dit Colin
d. 29 Oct 1755 Alibamons
m. 8 Feb 1726 Mobile, Ala
Louise Henry (widow of LaBogne?)
SECOND GENERATION
1. Louise Fontenot
b. ca. 1726 d. 15 Dec 1814 Edgard, La
1st m. Louis Berthelot
2nd m. Jean Desnoyers
Footnote: The Louisiana Colonial Records Collection, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Archives des Colonies, D2C, 54: n.p., "Roll of Troops at Alibamons., Oct. 29, 1755." All other data is from church archives.
"After France transferred to England all territory east of the Mississippi except New Orleans, in 1763, we find no further reference concerning the Fontenots in the Mobile Church records. The Fontenots appear in the Point Coupee church registers in 1764, and a priest notes on the baptism of Jean Baptiste Fontenot, son of Pierre Fontenot and Marie Louise Doucet and godchild of Baptiste Fontenot and Marie Jeanne Brignac, that these people were on their way to settle in Opelousas. Several other families from the Mobile area had migrated with them to Louisiana, to live among their countrymen rather than under English domination.
"At least five sons of the Fontenot-Henry marriage were part of this migration, and their descendents make the Fontenots the most numerous of any family in Evangeline and St. Landry parishes."
Source of the following: "The Fontenot Family 1600-1903: A Genealogical Study of The Descendants of Jean Louis Fontenot dit Colin and Louise Angelique Henry" page7, c1999 The Evangeline Genealogical and Historical Society, P. O. box 664, Ville Platte, LA 70586
"Louise Fontenot married (1) Louis Betheot; (2) Jean Desnoyers, 3rd Generation
"Number 1, from page 5
Louise Fontenot married (1) Louis Urbain Bethelot, (2) Jean Denoyer
"Louise Fontenot the daughter of Louis Fontenot and Louise Henry was born in about 1726. She was probably born in Fort Toulouse where her father was stationed from about 1720. Louise married first, date unknown, to Louis Urbain Berthelot. Louis Urbain died in Alabama and Louise married a second time to Jean Denoyer. This marriage took place after she moved to the German Coast of Louisiana following the surrender of French Mobile and Fort Toulouse to the English in 1763-1764. Louise died on the German Coast of Louisiana on December 15, 1814.
"It appears that the descendants of Louise and her two husbands remained in the St. James Parish area. No attempt has been made to catalog descendants of this family. End Descendants of Louise Fontenot." (Note: Names are spelled as they appear in the book.)
Note: Copies of the book are no longer available, however, James Reed, Editor, "LA VOIX des PRAIRIES", the quarterly journal of the Society, wrote that additions/corrections will be published sometime in the future. For additional information, write to James at the Society's address.
I found Louise Fontenot and her family on Family Tree Maker CD, Vol. 31, Pedigree #0257; tree name: Fonteneau, Fontenot, Materne of LA, France 1553-1998; tree submission date: Oct. 07, 1988. This family tree includes information from the original research of Robert Bruce Ardoin, information from "Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records" and "Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records".
"Judge Albert Tate, Jr.,(dec.) a member of the Evangeline Genealogical and Historical Society, championed a cause to have research done in France. In 1983, Judge Tate and the members of the Evangeline Genealogical Society sponsored Robert Bruce L. Ardoin, a native of Evangeline parish, living in Paris, to do further research into the origins of the Fontenot family in France. Mr. Ardoin spent a considerable amount of time in the Poitiers area with some success." Fontenot book, page 1.
Information in the Fontenot book came from Robert B. Ardoin's original research, Jacqueline O. Vidrine & Elaine G. Pucheau (dec.) original research, the first 31 volumes of Rev. Donald J. Hebert's "Southwest Louisiana Records" and donated family files.
I hope this information will be helpful to you in your research. Birmingham has one of the best Southern Research libraries in the Southeast, some say it is the best. I am in the process of editing my very large database that I plan to publish on a CD sometime in the future. Before I publish, however, I have to make many corrections. In the meantime, I try to help others by telling them where to look for information.
I am a French-speaking native of Ville Platte, Evangeline Parish, LA. I have lived in Birmingham since my marriage to Ed Wells in 1954.
Avec mes mellieurs sentiments
(with my very best wishes)
Rosie Morein Wells
Birmingham, AL
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