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From: "Roger A. Rozendal" <>
Subject: Re: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Re: More Landry's?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:07:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1a9.1b7ad906.2cc2af99@aol.com>


> "The first Landry in the Attakapas was Firmin (m. 1752 François dit
> Elizabeth Thibodeaux, 1776 Théotiste Thibodeaux), a Maryland exile and
> widower, who
> by 1769 or 1770 had taken up land on the upper Bayou Vermillion, near Grand
> Pointe, with his two grown sons Joseph and Saturin; later he obtained a
> smaller
> tract on the Teche at Fausse Pointe near present Loreauville.(17)

Don,

In the 1769 census of Attakapas (exact date unknown) is listed:

Firmen Landry 42
His Wife
Joseph his son 17
Saturnin his son 15
Elena his daughter 19
Magdeleyna his daughter 13
Barbe his daughter 8

Firmin arrived in Louisiana and settled at Attakapas before the 1769 census.

Roger A. Rozendal



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