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Subject: Landry family from Switzerland
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:09:14 EST

THE SWISS LANDRY FAMILY LINE


ORIGIN, PROGENITORS AND PROGENY

There is a Landry family line or clan from Switzerland whose progenitor is
Jean-Jacques Henri Landry, who established in Louisiana ca 1850. Jean Jacques
Henri Landry and Susanne Celestine Sandoz settled in St. Martinville in the
1830s, and today, their progeny are concentrated in the Lafayette, Louisiana
area.

I was fortunate enough to receive the following information on the ancestors
of Jean Jacques Henri Landry from Sarah von Allmen at
who has a website on Swiss immigrants at: http://angloswiss.net/

She provided me with the following genealogical succession:

1. Jean Pierre Landry
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2. François Louis Landry, born Baulmes (canton of Vaud), and confirmed at
Les Verrières, Christmas 1743. Married Jeanne Marguerite Besson at Les
Verrières on 30 April 1749. François Louis' father was Jean Pierre Landry.
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3. Jean Jaques Landry, baptised at Les Verrières on 5 Sept 1756, and
confirmed at Couvet, Christmas 1774. Married Susanne Catherine Frasse at Les
Verrières on 13 June 1786. Jean Jaques' parents were François Louis Landry
and Jeanne Marguerite Besson (daughter of David).
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4. Jean Jacques Henri Landry, born Les Verrières (canton of Neuchâtel), 9
July 1789; confirmed 27 March 1807, both at Les Verrières). Son of Jean
Jaques
Landry of Belle-Perche, church elder at Les Verrières, and Susanne Catherine
Frasse (daughter of Jonas). (JJH's brother, David Louis, was a "gendarme"
in various villages of the canton of Neuchâtel.)

Following is what I had on this Landry line until then:


ORIGIN OF THE SWISS LANDRY FAMILY
HISTORICAL

Jean Jacques Henry Landry

Then there are the Swiss Landrys of Louisiana whose progenitors were Jean
Jacques Henry Landry son of Jean Jacques Landry and Susanne Catherine Frasse
of the canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, who according to his passport, left
the canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland arrived in Philadelphia in 1817 at age
27. Jean Jacques Henry was born sometime in 1790 in the canton of Neuchatel,
Switzerland. He grew up in Switzerland where he was trained to be a
wheelwright. He left Switzerland and traveled to Amsterdam, sometime before
1817, when according to his passport that is in the possession of Ms. Orey B.
LaCoste of Lafayette, he arrived in Philadelphia to work as a wheelwright.
He married Susanne Celestine Sandoz, who was also a native of the canton
of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Suzanne was the daughter of Jean Henri Sandoz
(Jean Jacques Sandoz and Sara Marguerite Diacon) and Suzanne Amez Droz (Abram
Henri Droz de Villiers and Susanne Marguerite Maumary), of Dombresson, canton
of Neuchatel, Switzerland, where she was born on 30 December, 1803. She
arrived in America in 1829 with her parents and her 4 brothers.
Jean and Suzanne settled in St. Martinville in the 1830s, and their
progeny are concentrated in the Lafayette, Louisiana area.
The records assume that Jean Jacques Henri Landry and Susanne Celestine
Sandoz made their home in Lafayette sometime in the early 30's.


Jean Jacques Landry bn ca 1780 Susanne Catherine Frasse bn ca 1780 canton of
Neuchatel, Switzerland
Issue of Jean Jacques Landry bn ca 1780 Susanne Catherine Frasse:

Charles Henri Landry (Jean Jacques Landry bn ca 1780 Susanne Catherine
Frasse) bn ca 1800 Verrieres, Canton Neufchatel, Switzerland died 14 July
1847 at St. Martinville, LA.m ca 1822 New Iberia La. to Marianne Sandoz bn ca
1800 Dombresson, Canton Neufchatel, Switzerland -
Issue of Charles Henri Landry & Marianne Sandoz:
Charles Emile Landry (Charles Henri Landry & Marianne Sandoz), bn February
01, 1824
Emilia Arsene Landry (Charles Henri Landry & Marianne Sandoz), bn September
01, 1831
Claire Amanda Landry (Charles Henri Landry & Marianne Sandoz), bn September
11, 1834
Antoine Landry (Charles Henri Landry & Marianne Sandoz), bn December 14, 1837
Arthur Germain Landry (Charles Henri Landry & Marianne Sandoz), bn March 08,
1841
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Jean Jacques Henri Landry (Jean Jacques Landry bn ca 1780 Susanne Catherine
Frasse) bn ca 1790 canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland m.ca 1831 at New Iberia,
La Susanne Celestine Sandoz d/o Jean Henri Sandoz & Suzanne Amez Droz from
Canton of Neufchatel, Switzerland
Issue of Jean Jacques Henri Landry & Susanne Celestine Sandoz:
Suzanne Justine Landry, bn February 01, 1833 m. at Lafayette, La September
01, 1853William Whittington s/o James Whittington & Elizabeth Sellers

Louis Joseph Landry (Jean Jacques Henri Landry & Susanne Celestine Sandoz),
bn Abt. November 12, 1835 died 1862 in Tupelo Mississippi

Aimee Desire Landry (Jean Jacques Henri Landry & Susanne Celestine Sandoz),
bn June 22, 1838 died September 02, 1907 in Lafayette, La m May 25, 1859 in
Lafayette to Sara Anne "Corrine" Whittington

Anne Desire Landry (Jean Jacques Henri Landry & Susanne Celestine Sandoz),
bn June 22, 1838

Modeste Landry (Jean Jacques Henri Landry & Susanne Celestine Sandoz), bn
April 13, 1841

Mary Alida Landry (Jean Jacques Henri Landry & Susanne Celestine Sandoz), bn
ca 1841 died August 24, 1910 m. April 23, 1861 Francois Bourges s/.o Bernard
Bourges & Marie I'Cord - bn in France August 24, 1835 died September 02,
1892 in Lafayette

Henri Fredrick Landry (Jean Jacques Henri Landry & Susanne Celestine Sandoz),
bn ca 1845 died 1883 in St Martinville m July 25 1865 to Felicite Billeaud
d/o Jean-Baptiste Billeaud & Rosalie Felicite Griseaux (Griot) bn August 30
1843 in Vermilionville, La died March 07, 1933 New Orleans, buried in St.
John Catholic cemetery in Lafayette - issue: Louis Joseph Landry bn July 29,
1866 - Felix Henry Landry bn September 28, 1868 m. Clara Adeline Valiere ;
Jules Gaston Landry bn August 04, 1870; Philomene Emma Landry bn January 14,
1873 m. John R. Whelan; Charles Landry bn December 08, 1874;Marie Bernadette
Landry , bn June 27, 1877 m. Eddy Wagner; Leonard Emile bn jan. 9, 1880 died
December 07, 1913 m. 25 May 1905 to Euphemie Guchereaux; Florence Amelie
Landry bn October 29, 1881; Marie Henriette Landry bn June 08, 1883 m. Edward
T. Drumm

Anyone having any information on this Landry clan from Switzerland, please
send it to me

Don Landry

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