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Subject: Re: Acadian/Spanish marriages
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:35:36 EST


Judy, Paul & List

No one else has come forward with any more possibilities for the couple Judy
Riffel cited in the letter from Aubry who wrote about "an orphan girl who was
staying at his home was married the previous day to a corporal."

How about Marie Marguerite GRANGER, daughter of Pierre GRANGER II &
Euphrosine GAUTROT? Her father had died before the 1766 census, although her mother
remarried sometime before 1770 to Pierre (dit Pierrot a Jacques) LANDRY. I have
noticed that sometimes "orphan" could mean that the father was deceased, but
not always the mother.

Marie Marguerite was married in New Orleans on 8 Mar 1767 [3 weeks off the
date of the letter Judy cites] to Sergeant Manuel Quinteros who was born in
Spain. Perhaps he had been promoted?
The New Orleans Diocese, SACRAMENTAL RECORDS, vol. 2 has: Manuel QUINTERO
married on 8 Mar 1767 to Maria GRANGAY, Acadian (SLC, M2, 28 & 41)--double entry.

They had at least four daughters before Marie Marguerite died in 1780 in
Ascension Parish. Two of the girls were baptized at Pointe Coupee Parish. Manuel
remarried in 1781 another Acadian woman, the widow Madeleine BREAU, daughter of
Honore & Anne TRAHAN. These records are in the Baton Rouge Diocese, CATHOLIC
CHURCH RECORDS, vol. 2.

Karen Theriot Reader


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