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From: "Cajun" <>
Subject: RE: Acadian Memorial and some questions
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:32:51 -0600
In-Reply-To: <001f01c2ac5a$383ea960$6401a8c0@D7Z5L521>


We had a lenghty discussion re the "x" ending a couple of years ago!
Never did resolve it fully but I've always understood that it related to
the fact that most of the Acadians couldn't write so they made a cross
and the officials wrote the name. The cross was interpreted as an "x"
so Boudreau with the cross became Boudreaux.

The Cajuns in my part of Louisiana [New Iberia] still say I'm making my
cross when they want to indicate that they have made up their mind on an
issue.

Stanley LeBlanc
http://www.thecajuns.com



-----Original Message-----
From: LucieMC [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 3:12 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Acadian Memorial and some questions


Hi Lona... the non-use of x in Acadian names is not particular only to
Canada. Unless from Louisiana, most Acadian descendants do not use the
x at the end of the surnames. Lucie

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home
www.acadian-home.org
Am-Can Gen Soc www.acgs.org
CMA 2004 - www.cma2004.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Lona Boudreaux
To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Acadian Memorial and some questions


Thanks to all who answered my questions. To Beatrice - my married
name is
Boudreaux - husband was born in Lafayette, La but raised in Texas. My
maiden name is Laughlin and I was born in New Kensington, Pa. - close
to
Pittsburgh, Pa and raised in Texas. My heritage is Scots, German,
English,
Welsh, Scots-Irish, maybe Irish and a paternal Indian grandmother that
I
hope to find one of these days.

My husband's direct Boudreaux line comes from Charles, son of Michel
and
Michelle. You must live in Canada since you don't use the X.

Lona
Houston, Tx
Where it is a clear, cold (for us) Christmas day.


----- Original Message -----
From: "alex garro980" <>
To: <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: Acadian Memorial and some questions


> A merry Christmas to you Lona and to your family. Are you sure you
are
> not Acadian with the name of Boudreau? I am a Boudreau and
descendant of
> Michel Boudreau b 1600 in France, and his wife Michelle Aucoin.
>
> Here goes the translation. Fille is girl and belle is pretty or
> beautiful. Fille a la femme means girl belonging to the wife,
probably
> from a former marriage. Veuve means widow. If I am wrong I hope
someone
> will correct me.
>
> I hope I was a help to you.
>
> Beatrice Boudreau Costello
>


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