Images of America: Iberia Parish by Nelwyn Hebert and Warren A. Perrin (2012, 1st ed.), 127 pages.
I normally love these little series. I have one on GImages of America: Iberia Parish by Nelwyn Hebert and Warren A. Perrin (2012, 1st ed.), 127 pages.
I normally love these little series. I have one on Galveston, Texas, and Fairhope, Alabama. They are packed with all sorts of historic photos and miscellaneous information. You never know if you’re going to find photos or tidbits of information on your ancestors.
But, I’m not too impressed with this one. For $24.88, this little book was lacking. For starters, there really needs to be a name index. This book is all photos of people. So now I’m going to have to make my own name index for genealogical purposes.
Secondly, there’s too many large group photos of clubs, organizations, and schools. What’s the point when you can’t even use a magnifier to zoom in on their faces because it’s printed on such poor quality paper. Since this is a photo book, the photos really do need to be printed on slick photo type paper.
Also, I was a bit disappointed in some of the information provided for each photo. The authors did provide names for each. That’s good! But, at times, the “historical” information was totally irrelevant to the photo.
That being said, I was happy to find, on page 12, two photos of Amand (Amant) Broussard’s original home built in 1790. Amand is my paternal 5th great-grandfather and the son of Acadian hero, Joseph “Beausoliel” Broussard, who led about 200 Acadians from Acadia (Nova Scotia) to Louisiana after the 1755 deportation by the British.
The top photo, with the white picket fence, was taken at its original homestead site near Loreauville. You can actually see two people standing in the doorway…a man in black with white beard? And someone smaller. Captions don’t mention who they may be. The bottom photo is the house now on showcase at Vermilionville, Louisiana.
Here’s a bit of interesting information that the authors did not provide: Vermilionville purchased the home in 1989 and moved it to the park in 1990. It is the very last house at the end of the walk.
When Amand died at age 64 in 1818, his whole estate was worth $65,000, equivalent to $1,569,960 today. [Source: The Acadiana Advocate: "Vermilionville to remember Broussards", by Marsha Sills Acadiana Bureau, May 10, 2013]. ...more
A first edition, published in 1869. Now, I do admit I paid a pretty penny for this book. I found this copy for sale on Barnes & Noble online. This booA first edition, published in 1869. Now, I do admit I paid a pretty penny for this book. I found this copy for sale on Barnes & Noble online. This book gets 5-stars because my ancestors from my mother's father, Bryant Edward Lawrence Sr. is in this book. It is also signed in fine caligraphy penmanship: "F. P. F. Temple. With the aff. regards of his niece. Nancy T. Lawrence. Reading, Mass. Aug. 8th 1870". (NOTE: Nancy is FAMILY No. 275, p. 201)
My 10th great- grandparents: John Lawrence, son of Henry and Mary, born at Wisset, England; baptized Oct. 8, 1609. He married Elizabeth ------ in New England and settled in Watertown. They had 15 children. I am descended from the 7th child, Peleg Lawrence, b. 1646-47.
My 9th great-grandparents: Peleg Lawrence (FAMILY No. 5, p. 31) married Elisabeth Morse. They had 9 children. I am descended from the 3rd child, Eleazer Lawrence, b. 1674.
My 8th great-grandparents: Eleazer Lawrence (FAMILY No. 9, p. 34) married Mary -----. They had 10 children. I am descended from the 3rd child, Jonathan Lawrence, b. 1703.
My 7th great-grandparents: Jonathan Lawrence (FAMILY no. 22, p. 42) married Tryphena Powers. They had 11 children. I am descended from the 3rd child, Abel Lawrence, b. 1733.
My 6th great-grandparents: Abel Lawrence (FAMILY No. 68, p. 70) married Phebe Farr. They had 9 children. I am descended from the 7th child, John Gordon Lawrence, b. 1775.
My 5th great-grandparents: John Gordon Lawrence married Elisabeth Sanders (FAMILY No. 162, p. 134). They had 10 children, I am descended from the 4th child, Betsy Lawrence, b. Oct. 19, 1800.
My 4th great-grandparents: Betsy Lawrence m. William W. West (FAMILY No. 301, p. 216), and they had 11 children. I am descended from their oldest child, Silas V. Lawrence, b. May 16, 1822)
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Not in the book is the rest of the descendants, from Silas V. Lawrence, down to me:
(my 3rd great-grandparents) Silas Lawrence m. Nancy Litchfield Their son (my 2nd great-grandparents) Joseph Washington Lawrence m. Louisa Matilda Taylor Their son (my great-grandparents) - John Edward Lawrence m. Ethel Pollard Bryant Their son (my grandparents) - Bryant Edward Lawrence Sr. m. Eunice Lucille Johnson Their daughter (my parents) - Shirley Ann Lawrence m. Lee Corbett LeBlanc Their middle child (me)...more
The History of Saint Mary Magdalen Parish: Abbeville, Louisiana 1842-1976 by Roger Baudier, K.S.G. and Lydia S2023 - ‘70’s Immersion Reading Challenge
The History of Saint Mary Magdalen Parish: Abbeville, Louisiana 1842-1976 by Roger Baudier, K.S.G. and Lydia Sas-Jaworsky (1976) 47 pages.
2-1/2 stars rounded up - To be clear, I am not Catholic, but most of my Louisiana ancestors were. My main purpose in reading this booklet is really to put my ancestors lives into perspective with what was going on in the area at the time they were living there.
So, just pass this review on by. It will only be interesting for me as I learn more about the lives of my ancestors. See you at the next review.
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The number of Holy Communion, Confirmations, and money collections seem to be main focus of this entire booklet, along with name after name after name of the Priests who resided over the Abbeville church. At least four were most prominently mentioned with the progress of the Catholic church. They were: (1) Abbe Megret (founder of Abbeville) [see pgs. 1-10] (2) Pere Alexandre Mehault [see pgs. 15-21] (3) Pere Fabian Laforest [see pgs. 21-24] (4) Pere Edmund Daull [see pgs. 26-28]
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GENEALOGY NOTES
Mehault gave last rites to my 2nd great-grandmother (Clebert’s wife), Modeste Emelie (Pamela) Decuir Broussard, at her death in 1897.
Laforest gave last rites to my 2nd great-grandfather, Clebert Broussard, at his death in 1900.
Daull gave last rites to my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Broussard LeBlanc, at her death in 1946.
Frederick LaBrake gave last rites to my great-grandfather, Paul Albert LeBlanc, at his death in 1948. LaBrake only had his name mentioned as a cleric of the church in this year.
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This author is very vague as to why Abbe Megret, the founder of Abbeville, left France and came to Louisiana to dedicate his life’s mission. According to this booklet, Abbe Antoine Desire Megret “stood high in clerical circles of France, and had been a brilliant writer on the staff of “L’Avenir,” the controversial publication of Abbe de La Mennais.” The Holy See (Pope) condemned the “propositions” of that cleric, so Abbe Megret bowed to the Papal decree, and left to focus his life’s mission in Louisiana. [What was the proposition? What is the Papal decree?]
In 1842, the Catholics were revolting against the church before Abbe Antoine Megret even arrived from France to be the new pastor of St. John Catholic Church in Lafayette. What exactly were they revolting against? The author doesn’t say. But, first off, Abbe Megret wanted to begin introducing and teaching catechism to the negroes and indoctrinating them into the religion. Maybe this was the proposition he made in France and the Pope rejected, even though the Pope openly denounced slavery? When the Abbe pressed the issue here in Lafayette, it caused the two wards running St. John’s in Lafayette to act violently towards the Abbe, so he began pushing for the Bishop of New Orleans to take control of the operations of the Lafayette parish church. The two wards running the Lafayette church pretty much ran Abbe Megret out of Lafayette. Megret began focusing his attention down around Pont Perry, or Perry’s Bridge, renamed La Chapelle by the Abbe, but today known as Abbeville. Later, the two wards were relieved of their duties from the church.
On July 25, 1843, Abbe Megret purchased the home and property of Joseph LeBlanc, in which he renovated the home into the first St. Mary Magdalen Church of Abbeville and established the church cemetery, rectory, lots, etc. [Who is this Joseph LeBlanc? A little research, maybe in the 1840 census, might tell me?]
Pere Alexandre Barde describes the home converted into the first church of Abbeville on page 29: “pointed arches with stained glass windows depicting scenes and figures from Holy Scripture. It casts the shadow of its cross…as far as the cemetery, beautiful green field stripped with monuments to the dead, giving it resemblance to the churchyard in Gray’s ‘Elegy’.”
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BOOK TO LOOK INTO
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (1751). Mentioned on page 29 of this booklet.
In 1851, there was a fight between Abbe Megret and the people at Perry’s Bridge on where the courthouse will be. They wanted the church moved to Perry’s Bridge. The Abbe offered up land around the church in Abbeville for the courthouse. The people of Perry’s Bridge offered up a petition promising money to move the church to Perry’s Bridge so they could keep the courthouse there.
NOTE: According to Abbe Megret, Perry’s Bridge area were mostly poor Protestants…”poor as Job”; whereas, Abbeville were mostly committed Catholics…evidently, with money (p. 7). The long list of names from Perry’s Bridge, and the amounts they pledged, are included in the booklet. My direct ancestors are not listed; although, I know my great-grandparents, Paul Albert and Elizabeth (Broussard) LeBlanc, who were Catholic, lived in Perry, Louisiana, at the time and are buried there. They were extremely poor farmers…maybe too poor to even think about their Catholic duties of participating and funding the church and its activities.
All four of my 2nd great-grandparents survived the 1853 [which another source says 1854] yellow fever epidemic that hit Vermilionville area. With a population of only a little over one hundred citizens in Abbeville, 73 died, including the founder of Abbeville, Abbe Antoine Desire Megret. He is buried at St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Lafayette where he died.
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GENEALOGY NOTES
This yellow fever epidemic is not the same epidemic which hit hardest in the New Iberia area in 1839. Half of the population in this area died. Every family was affected. My 3rd great-grandmother, Clebert Broussard’s mother, Marie Felonise Broussard (wife of Don Louis Broussard), along with three other ladies, helped nurse people back to health best they could. She survived that epidemic of 1839 and also lived through this one in 1854 [or most likely 1853], which doesn’t appear to have hit New Iberia area very hard, if at all. [They Tasted Bayou Water, Bergerie, p. 50-51]
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NOTE: In 1854, the rectory only, not the church, in Abbeville, where the church records were kept, burned down. Father Foltier was the appointed pastorate to St. Mary Magdeline Church. He called upon all Catholics who had children that were baptized at the church to come to the rectory to provide names, dates and whatever other information they could recall. So, anything dated before 1854 may not be exact, but it will be close. And it’s all we have to go by.
After Abbe Megrets death, in 1854, the State Supreme Court made a decision in favor of the Abbe. The parish seat would be in Abbeville, and the Archbishop would not move the church to Perry’s Bridge.
On August 10, 1856, the area was hit with one the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the coast of Louisiana. Abbeville was devastated and, of course, the church was wrecked. Twenty-two homes were completely destroyed, but there were no deaths in Abbeville. I’ve read an awesome book, Last Days of Last Island by Bill Dixon (2009), about this 140 mph hurricane. Somehow, my Louisiana ancestors survived. But, of course, they were not on Last Island off the Louisiana coast where many perished. The island was practically washed away with hundreds of people there on vacation.
From 1859-1862, tensions were high as “the slavery question arose, and the secession from the Union” and Civil War was on the horizon. The Federal soldiers eventually captured and took control of the railroad and had pushed up Bayou Teche. Not much was said on the effects of the Civil War at Abbeville, except that the numbers of those being baptized, both black and white, went up at the start of the war, then dropped dramatically among both groups, and especially the blacks, at the close of the war, as tensions between the races were escalated. My ancestors lived in Abbeville throughout the Civil War.
The new church wasn’t officially dedicated until May of 1884, nearly 28 years after the hurricane of 1856 destroyed the original church. The new church, the 2nd church, was already cramped by 1870. So, Father Lamy, the pastorate at the time, had already begun collecting funds to add an addition onto the rectory. In 1874, a new bell was blessed with a ceremony. And, finally, the church was completed in 1875.
Improvements to the church continued to be made over the years. In 1901, new windows were installed in the church. And, in 1904, a new organ and the rectory was enlarged. A year later, in 1905, new pews for the church were purchased and a new cemetery with a sexton building had been built.
Two years later, in 1907, the whole church burned down to the ground. One of the Baptismal records, with 154 baptisms recorded, had been left in the church and was lost. A temporary frame church was erected and used until 1911 when the exterior of new church was completed and put to use. This is the church that still stands today.
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GENEALOGY NOTES
If they even attended church, my great-grandparents, Paul and Elizabeth Broussard LeBlanc, would have been to service in the 2nd and the present new church that still exists to this day. They, at least, received last rites from the church at their deaths.
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In the year 1948, Pere Edmond Daull, pastorate at the time, reported to have buried 12 soldier boys from Abbeville who had been killed overseas during World War II. The author doesn’t list them in this booklet. I wonder if Pere Daull had them recorded in the book of deaths at the church, or just made a note of the number of deaths?
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MY ANCESTRY
My 1st great-grandparents were born and living in the area soon after Abbeville was founded in 1842. And their parents, my 2nd great-grandparents may have lived in Abbeville when it was established. Here, they died and were buried.
1ST GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
Paul Albert LeBlanc (b. 1859 - d. 1948, bur. at Esther Cemetery in Abbeville, LA.) Paul had 12 siblings.
Elizabeth Broussard LeBlanc (b. 1860 - d. 1946, bur. at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Cemetery in Abbeville, LA.) Elizabeth had 13 siblings.
NOTE: Staff sent me a letter saying their records show that Elizabeth was removed and reburied at Esther, but Esther Cemetery doesn’t have any records on her. In fact, they’ve lost both my grandparent’s gravesites…nothing ever found on either one of them. Record keeping was very scant on this cemetery.
2ND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
Paul’s parents:
Jules LeBlanc (b. 1819 - d. 1884, bur. at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Cemetery in Abbeville, LA.)
Marguerite Emela (Pamela) Boudreaux (b. 1824 - d. 1869, bur. at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Cemetery in Abbeville, LA.)
Elizabeth’s parents:
Jean Clebert Broussard (b. 1822 - d. 1900, bur. at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Cemetery in Abbeville, LA.))
Modeste Emelie Decuir Broussard (b. 1829 - d. 1897, bur. at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Cemetery in Abbeville, LA.)
FYI: Paid $30 in 2009 - Purchased from Durwood Johnson 8001 E. 18th , Spokane, Washington 99212. Durwood Johnson is no longer living. He died 24 May 2FYI: Paid $30 in 2009 - Purchased from Durwood Johnson 8001 E. 18th , Spokane, Washington 99212. Durwood Johnson is no longer living. He died 24 May 2019. -------------------- This is exactly how a personal family genealogy book is supposed to be done. I love his style and love all the photos crammed into this genealogy. These Johnsons are a part of my family on my mother's side of the tree....more
My Memories of Cheniere au Tigre by Zoe Sagrera Lynch & Nora Zoe Lynch (2010), 349 pages.
The author, Zoe Sagrera Lynch, aged 92, with the help of her My Memories of Cheniere au Tigre by Zoe Sagrera Lynch & Nora Zoe Lynch (2010), 349 pages.
The author, Zoe Sagrera Lynch, aged 92, with the help of her daughter, Nora Lynch Hanks, published this book the very year she died, in 2010. After purchasing this rich little piece of history, I discovered that the author and I are related through my dad’s mother’s side of the family, Ina Wilma Roberts LeBlanc Block, who was not Cajun. Our common ancestor is Clara “Claire” (Martin) (Sagrera) Laplace (1826-1893). She first married Raphael Sagrera Sr., the author’s grandfather. When he died, Clara then married Germain Laplace, my 3rd great-grandfather, and started her second family.
This is my second time through this book, and this time I've dissected it to pieces and had to lower my 5-star rating down to four because of the lack of information from the photos and the fact that there is no name index.
This memoir is packed with black and white photos, some quality, some not. They were gathered from family and friends and set into a large 8x10 book format depicting everyday life on Cheniere au Tigre. Love it! But, sadly, many of the photos are not labeled nor dated. And there is not a name index for her stories, nor for the photos that are labeled. I had to make one so I can find people easier as I go along with my research.
The 1920’s seemed to be the time to be alive at Cheniere au Tigre. Zoe’s memories and little short takes on the daily life here on this little Louisiana island brings you back to an era when life was just life, hard work, with lots of fun on the island. Absolutely no technology to bog you down, make you fat and lazy. They lived off the land.
The men earned wages by trapping, hunting and fishing. Even the women and their children participated in these things because they loved it. They also grew their own vegetables.
According to this book, there were about 29 families who resided on the island back in the day, before Hurricane Audrey came in 1957 and devastated Southwestern Louisiana. Tide waters rose to 12 feet and destroyed just about everything on the island. Many would rebuild cabins and such, but businesses, the school, the church would not survive.
One of Clara’s sons, my 2nd great-grandfather, Henri Laplace and wife, Amelia Dyson Laplace, resided on the island for a little while. In fact, according to his death record, Henri was buried in 1899 at the Cheniere au Tigre cemetery. Amelia is not. She is buried in a cemetery in California where she died. Amelia’s father (my 3rd great grandfather) Thomas Dyson was also buried at Cheniere. I’m “assuming” his wife, Elizabeth B. Miller Dyson (my 3rd great-grandmother) was also buried there too.
The Sagrera family actually opened up and ran a very successful health resort out on the island. People would come from all over to bury their bodies in the healing sands or mud and swim in the healing salts from the Gulf for renewed life. The author remembers three people, in particular, who were miraculously cured from some pretty dreadful diseases. (p. 145)
One man, no name mentioned, couldn’t walk. He was held up by his arms and dragged to shore and was buried in the sand. By the time his group was ready to leave, he could walk on his own.
In 1929, a 13-year-old girl, Martha Blanchet (photographed on pages 146 & 147), from Youngsville, was always in so much pain that the touch of clothes against her skin hurt. Several times a day, they carried her out on a stretcher to the beach and submerged her, and the cot, under water. Her skin was healed in a few weeks, and they returned several times to continue the healing. She grew up, married, even had children and lived a long life, according to the author. (146-47).
A Mr. and Mrs. Boudreaux brought their son (no name mentioned) to Cheniere to heal their son’s head, which was covered with sores. Years later, the author and family heard that he had fully recovered and was a successful executive in Baton Rouge. (p. 147-48)
Today, though, we worry about the flesh-eating bacteria, necrotizing fasciitis, creeping around in the Gulf, looking for victims with weak immunities, and breaks in the skin, to kill us. Ha! What a sorry, filthy era we now live in.
ZOE SAGRERA LYNCH (b. Sept 8, 1917 – d. Sept 2, 2010, bur. at Calvary Cemetery, Lafayette, LA)
EXTRA NOTES OF INTEREST
Have you ever in your life heard of “sea gum”? I ‘m making a note of it here encase I ever come across it at the beach. I’ll know to look for it now, but I’m definitely not going to be chewing on it. Zoe and her siblings used to collect it along the beach and sell it for 50 cents. “Sea gum was oil which seeped from the bottom of the Gulf, mixed with sand and saltwater, and hardened as it washed ashore. The gum was like black lumps of rubber.” They would bite off a chunk and chew it until it softened and, according to the author, it was a lot like store-bought chewing gum. Visitors to the resort liked it so much, many would request it again on their next visit. (p. 91) Interesting!
Paulin Laplace was mentioned on pages 262, 263, & 271. He was a brother to Henri Laplace, my 2nd great grandfather. A picture of Paulin and Ophelia Baudoin Laplace’s home is pictured on page 263. And a picture of their eight infant's burial place in the Sagrera Cheniere Cemetery is on page 271. Paulin and his wife are not buried at Cheniere. They are buried at the Old Catholic Cemetery in Abbeville.
The McIlhenny’s (owners of Tabasco Plant) owned property on the island. They had the McIlhenny Club Camp, with a home for their employee’s families to live as well. E. A. McIlhenny traded 800 acres with Semmes Sagrera (author’s father) so he could build canals, giving easier access to his land on the west end of the island. Semmes and his heirs were granted lifetime rights to use this canal, while others had to start paying a fee to access it. (p. 225)
The Cajun Coast Guard patrolled the beaches from Southwest Pass to Grand Chenier during World War II. They were the Beach Patrol, also known as the “Swamp Angels”. The author’s brothers were enlisted: Anthony, Ralph and Lloyd Sagrera, along with a few of the other island men. (See U.S. Cajun Coast Guard in my INDEX). They erected a 50-foot Lookout Tower on the beach in front of the resort, where each man would take 12-hour shifts, reporting to New Orleans by radio from the Tower. (p. 205-216)
Mass was held three or four times a year, when the Bishop would visit, at either the Sagrera’s or Dyson’s home (most likely Thomas Dyson, my 3rd great grandfather) until a chapel was built in 1927. For special services, such as weddings, christenings and communions, they had to coordinate with the Bishop’s arrival, or else travel inland to Abbeville, Henry, Bancker or Cameron. Years later, when the church was torn down, the Chapel’s bell was brought to Pecan Island to use in Amanda Sagrera’s Memorial Park. (Amanda was the author’s sister.) (p. 123-125) Is this park still there? Where? Is the bell still there?
In 2010, at the time this book was published, there was already noticeable beach erosion taking place, mostly on the east end. The beautiful live oak trees were being washed into the gulf. They began using rocks and built a jetty to try and slow down the erosion and protect the island from being washed away.
TO DO: The Cheniere au Tigre is mostly private property, owned by heirs. So, I will need to find a boat ride out to the island. Maybe I can help with the yearly cemetery cleanup “before” All Saints and All Souls Day? Earn my way there! Sometime before November 1-2.
MY INTERESTS AT CHENIERE AU TIGRE: 1. Dyson’s homestead property (general area)? (p. 259) 2. The Dyson Oak? (p. 260) 3. The Hollow Oak in front of resort? (p. 36, 337) – the kids used to play hide-and-go seek in it 4. Cheniere au Tigre cemetery (p. 269-278) NOTE: I cried like a baby reading and seeing the photo of Amanda Sagrera Hanks (Zoe’s sister) “final trip to Cheniere”, her casket being unloaded from a boat in 2004. 5. Any remnants of the Coast Guard tower in front of resort? 6. Any remnants of the pier built by Semmes Sagrera (Zoe’s dad)? (p. 167-170) 7. Where is this 1927 church bell today? Is Amanda Sagrera’s Memorial Park still there in Pecan Island? I can’t find a thing on the internet....more
This was a very easy read centered on Joseph "Beausoleil" Broussard's character. Joseph was my 6th great-grandfather. It mentions just a little about This was a very easy read centered on Joseph "Beausoleil" Broussard's character. Joseph was my 6th great-grandfather. It mentions just a little about one of his sons, Amand Broussard, my 5th great-grandfather.
It also gave a pretty good imagery on what he most likely had gone through before actually being exiled from Canada and how he ended up here in Louisiana. The book provides a few copies of original documents and an extensive source list you can look into for further research...and that's exactly what I'm going to do. Be leary though because a lot of this information is based on other's research. Try to find where original sources could be located....more
The Acadian Miracle by Dudley J. LeBlanc (1966), 1st edition, hardcover (no jacket), 419 pages.
History books in general are just plain hard to get thThe Acadian Miracle by Dudley J. LeBlanc (1966), 1st edition, hardcover (no jacket), 419 pages.
History books in general are just plain hard to get through. They are usually written over my head so will rarely get over 3 stars. But, I do read them from time to time to learn more about my ancestors.
Now, I paid a lot of money for this rare book ($100) published in 1966 because it does mention my direct line LeBlanc ancestors from Acadia, Nova Scotia, and has a blownup image of my 7th great-grandfather's (Rene LeBlanc) signature recorded on a document dated July 30, 1709, on page 26.
I love the fact that this author included snippets of original documentation to back up his writing. I learned more from this book, so far, than any other historical books written on the Acadians....even though I had to read very slowly and without any other distractions to understand what I was reading....more
A quick and easy read! May have to watch out a little for historian's bias on how happy and perfect the people, particularly slave owners and slaves, A quick and easy read! May have to watch out a little for historian's bias on how happy and perfect the people, particularly slave owners and slaves, were of Iberia Parish...lol...but, she does touch on a little bit of everything historical and relevant to the parish.
She includes a bibliography showing what sources were used to write the book, but she does not show which source was used for what information gleaned. So, the reader will have to do a little research on their own to fact check. The author used local newspapers, police jury minutes and other courthouse records to present this brief history of Iberia Parish, Louisiana.
Also, there is an index, but it is incomplete for genealogical research. There are "some" surnames included in the bibliography, but the names in the APPENDIX is not indexed. That's where I found some of my friend's family names buried. These were transcribed contracts and correspondences between the Spanish officials, and particularly letters from Francisco Bouligny to Galvez.
So, you have to read the book to see if your ancestors name were mentioned or not. Don't want to miss anything!
NOTES OF INTEREST FOR ME FOUND IN THIS BOOK:
(p. 50) My 5th great-grandmother, Mrs. Don Louis Broussard (Marie Louise Felonise Phelonise Broussard) is mentioned, but not sourced. I will have to do some research to find where this information was derived. She was 1 of 5 women who helped care for people sick and dying of yellow fever back in 1839. That year was one of the worst years where nearly half of Iberia Parish population died, so you can bet just about everyone was affected.
(p. 122-3) My friend, Leodias Adams' direct ancestors, Miguel Romero & Maria Grano are mentioned. A full translated transcription of "the" contract from Spain that allowed them to come and settle in Louisiana. Would not have ever found this if I had not chose to read every word in the APPENDIX....more
One of the hardest books I've ever had to get through. Written way over my head, but it gets a 2 star because I did learn a thing or two about my AcadOne of the hardest books I've ever had to get through. Written way over my head, but it gets a 2 star because I did learn a thing or two about my Acadian ancestors, particularly about my 6th great-grandfather, Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard.
Hmmm....now why didn't I make note of what I learned? I would really hate to have to read this again. [2/17/2021]...more
Love this little book! It is loaded with photos of early Fairhope, Alabama, settlers and town photos. In fact, how exciting to discover that my 2nd grLove this little book! It is loaded with photos of early Fairhope, Alabama, settlers and town photos. In fact, how exciting to discover that my 2nd great maternal grandparents: Jerome B. Stapleton and Lucy Brown Stapleton, are pictured on page 17. ...more
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