Marie Babin (abt. 1754 - 1807)

Born about 1754 in Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Charles Landry — married 2 Dec 1775 in Ascension Parish, Louisiana

Descendants

Died Nov 1807 at about age 53 in Orleans Territory, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Amand Babin is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 1 Left. Listed with him is his wife Anastasie Landry and their child Paul; and Amand's two sisters Elisabeth Madeleine Babin and Marie Babin.^[1]

Marie Babin, one of five children in family of Germain BABIN, widower of Marguerite LANDRY, on the 1763 census at Oxford, MD. She travelled to Louisiana with her brother Amand and her sister Elizabeth Madeleine.

She married on 2 Dec 1775 in Louisiana to Charles LANDRY (he was at Oxford, MD, widower of Marie LANDRY). (ASC-1, 131 & 132).^[2]

Their known children were:

1. Angele Landry (about Sep 1776 – about Jul 15 1815) .
2. Celeste Landry (Jan 3 1779 – Oct 1823) .
3. Mathilde Landry (Apr 18 1781 – May 3 1813) .
4. Leger Landry (about 1783 – Nov 5 1837) .
5. Marie Madeleine Landry (before Oct 14 1787 – before Jun 26 1815)

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p. 9
2. ↑ Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; pp. 77 & 142.