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Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Sieur Georges Grandin
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:48:25 -0500


The Louisiana Marriage Contracts 1728-1769 by Alice Daly Forsyth records
some marriages/births that aren't in the church records for various
reasons. Some include Acadians. Page 71 contains the following entry:

Marriage Contracts

Halifax, Nova scotia

October 14, 1761

Before me, the Royal Notary of this Province of Louisiana, a resident of
New orleans, appeared

Sieur Georges Grandin, a former resident of Halifax, now established in
this Colony, who declares he has lost his marriage contract, and due to
the invasion by the English, all records were sent to Quebec, and it
would be very difficult to have them forwarded here.

The undersigned witnesses attest to the fact that Georges Grandin
married Elizabeth Osseils in the Roman Catholic Church on October 14,
1761, and of this marriage two children were born.

Passed at New orleans February 6, 1766 in the presence of Sieur Henry
Gardrat and Pierre Gauvin competent witnesses as required by law.

Signing - Philippe Lachausse, G. Grandin, Gauvain, Jr., Garic, Notary

Note: Philippe Lachausse was a physician and the leader of a group of
Acadians who arrived from Santo Domingo [Haiti] - these Acadians also
ahd card money. St. Julien was a dit name for Lachausse.

Stanley LeBlanc
http://www.thecajuns.com


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