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From: "Daniel Curole" <>
Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN-L] Roll Call
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:53:50 -0600
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Mary Jane, would you happen to have any Wehrung, Waring, Wang surnames
connected to your Toussaint line? Any from Alsace?

Cheryl Curole
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Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN-L] Roll Call


> My name is Mary Jane Fuller Cobb, now living in Mobile, AL, after 30 years
in
> Bethesda, MD. I was born in New Orleans and lived there until I went to
LSU
> in 1954. For most of my 60-plus years, I have been interested in our
family
> history, but have been researching, off and on, for about 30 years. In
the
> last five years, I have made some progress, but still cannot verify some
> facts that were taken for granted in earlier years.
>
> My maternal grandmother told wonderful stories about her family and her
> friends, during her childhood and early adulthood in New Orleans between
1880
> and 1900. She was born in 1872 or 1873 in New Orleans and was baptised
Mary
> Jane Ludlow in St. Alphonsus Church, but childhood nickname "Mollie"
stayed
> with her into adulthood and is on her headstone in Metairie Cemetery. Her
> parents were John S(eaberry) Ludlow and his second wife, Margaret Ann
Kelly,
> both of whom died when she was a child. She died in 1954 and was buried
with
> her husband, Guy Donaldson, Sr., (1877-1949), younger son, Joseph Ludlow
> Donaldson, (1910-1944), and daughters, Marie Donaldson Fuller (1907-1974)
and
> Margaret Ellen Donaldson Hobbs. The elder son, Guy Donaldson, Jr., was
> killed on a ship that was torpedoed in the North Atlantic in 1942, during
> WWII, and his memorial also appears on this headstone. Only Marie and
Joseph
> had children; each had one child: myself and my cousin Linda.
>
> The names in my grandmother's family are LUDLOW (in Louisiana,
Mississippi,
> Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey, New York), KELLY, SIDLE or SIEDEL,
HOSEY
> or HOZEY (in Mississippi), NAIRNE, TOUSSAINT, NATHAN, McMURRAY, McCOARD,
> AUSTIN. Her parents died in New Orleans and they and some of their
children
> are buried in Lafayette Cemetery #1. Her maternal grandparents were
Charles
> and Ann Kelly. Her paternal great-grandfather was either John S. Ludlow
or
> Benjamin A. Ludlow. Her paternal g-g-grandfather was either Benjamin
> A(ustin) Ludlow or Maxfield Ludlow, who was either her great grandfather
or
> her g-g-g grandfather, based on confusing information found in the 1850
> census, where there are three generations of John S. Ludlow names.
Maxfield
> Ludlow married Sarah Austin.
>
> My grandfather, Guy Donaldson, Sr., (1877-1949) was the son of Joseph
> Donaldson (supposedly born in Newry, County Down, Ireland, and immigrated
to
> Texas when he was twelve years old) and Sarah Ellen Phillips (supposedly
born
> near Mansfield, in DeSoto Parish, LA). Both of his parents died in New
> Orleans and are buried in Lafayette Cemetery #1. His mother's headstone
> gives her name as Ellen Donaldson. In his family, I am researching
> DONALDSON, PHILLIPS or PHILIPS, VIZARD.
>
> In my father's family, I am searching for his parents, WILLIAM HAROLD
FULLER
> and MARY LARUSA (or LARUSSO) who were married in New Orleans in 1903 (from
> the Marriage Index!). They divorced a few years after my father was born
in
> 1908. His mother married Charles Heath about 4 or 5 years later and had
> daughter, Lucille, and another son, Charles Heath, Jr.
>
> Thanks for all of the help that this list provides -
>
> - Mary Jane
>
>
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