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From: "Stanley LeBlanc" <>
Subject: Re: [ACADIAN] Eloy Landry m. Marie Madeleine Melancon
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:57:50 -0500
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Karen,

I show that Alexandre Melanson and Osite Hebert had a son named Paul and a
son named Joseph.

Paul married Osite Barbe LeBlanc and Joseph married Osite's sister, Marie
Josephe. Joseph's 1st wife was Anastasie Breaux.

Osite and Marie Josephe were the daughters of Marcel LeBlanc and Marie
Josephe Breaux.

Stanley LeBlanc
Http://www.thecajuns.com

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Subject: Re: [ACADIAN] Eloy Landry m. Marie Madeleine Melancon

The Marie Madeleine MELANSON who was born 17 Jun 1783 was not the wife of
Eloi LANDRY, according to their marriage record:

Diocese of Baton Rouge, Catholic Church Records, vol. 2, 1770-1803, pp.
422 & 536.
Eligio LANDRY, son of Marin & Pelagia LANDRY, married on 28 Dec 1801 to
Magdalena MELANSON, daughter of Joseph & Maria LeBLANC. Witnesses: Marin
LANDRY; Pablo MELANSON. Recorded at St. James Catholic Church, St. James,
LA (SJA-2, 58).

The birth/baptismal record for the 1783 M.M.M. reads:
Maria Magdalena [MELANCON], daughter of Carlos & Felicitas LANDRY, born 17
Jun 1783, baptized 13 Jul 1783. Sponsors: Fermin LANDRY & Marie Magdalena
BABIN (ASC-1, 94).

The MMM married to Eloi LANDRY was the daughter of Joseph Paul MELANSON &
Marie Josephe LE BLANC, born around 1785.

Joseph Paul MELANSON was son of Alexandre MELANSON (DGFA#23, p. 1157) &
Osite HEBERT, recently proved by mtDNA results to be the daughter of
Jacques HEBERT (DGFA #13 p. 825) & Marguerite LANDRY.

E-mail from Lucie LeBlanc Consentino in Oct 2008, relaying message from
Stephen A. White.
"Christopher Plaisance's test results clear up a problem I have had for
some time with Osite Hébert. Osite was married twice, but the record of her
second marriage, at least as transcribed in the Diocese of Baton Rouge
series, does not mention the fact that she was a widow. Additionally, her
appearance in the 1777 census tells us nothing about her marital status at
that time, beyond showing her without a spouse. And when she died in 1805,
her burial record was written up to call her the widow of her first
husband. Consequently. I always thought that there were actually two Osite
Héberts in Louisiana, one of whom was married to Alexandre Melanson, and the
other to Augustin Boudrot.
Moreover, I thought that there was only one Augustin Boudrot, and that his
wife Osite had died by 1778, when he married secondly Judith Martin. Mr.
Plaisance's mtDNA test results confirm, however, that there was only one
Osite (which is what my database indicates anyway) because the maternal
line of the woman who married Augustin Boudrot in 1771 leads directly to
Perrine Rau, and the test results show (as Karen has mentioned) that it is
Perrine Rau's mtDNA that has been passed down by the woman who married
Alexandre Melanson. A letter written by Nicolas Verret to the Spanish
governor de Unzaga several months after Osite's marriage to Augustin states
that the latter had been informed that a large sum of money was due to him
in Canada, and that he had requested permission to go get it, promising to
return. There is nothing to show, however, that he actually did come back,
and the fact that Osite had no husband in
1777 and reverted to being called the widow Melanson suggests strongly that
he did not return."

Very exciting proofs (or disproofs) of lineage now available from
mitochondrial DNA tests!

Karen (Theriot Reader)



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