Henriette DeLille (1813 - 1862)

Born 11 Mar 1813 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Ancestors

Died 17 Nov 1862 at age 49 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

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Mother Henriette DeLille was a Catholic nun from New Orleans. She founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1836 and served as their first Mother Superior.^[1]

Henriette DeLillie was born in 1812, daughter of Marie Josephe Diaz, a free woman of color, and Jean Baptiste DeLille Sarpy.^[2]

She, along with other sisters of the Holy Family, was educated at the St. Claude Street School. She began her evangelical work around the age of 17 years old.

She was the founder of Sisters of the Holy Family.^[3]

She died on November 17, 1862^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_DeLille
2. ↑ Gould, Virginia M. Biography of Henriette Delille, online article, June 15, 2021, 64 Parishes, https://64parishes.org/entry/henriette-delille : accessed June 2, 2022
3. ↑ Deggs, Mary Bernard. No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, Edited and with an introduction by Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles Nolan. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002.
   • page xxx (introduction), history of Henriette Delille's education
4. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #7278812
   Memorial page for Sr Henriette DeLille Famous memorial (11 Mar 1813-17 Nov 1862), citing Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA (plot: Nuns); Maintained by Find a Grave.

• 1850 Census: "1850 United States Federal Census"
  The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: New Orleans Municipality 1 Ward 6, Orleans, Louisiana; Roll: 236; Page: 280a; Line Number: 34
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8054 #2819258
  Henriette Delille (37) in New Orleans Municipality 1 Ward 6, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Born in Louisiana.
• 1860 Census: "1860 United States Federal Census"
  The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M653; Residence Date: 1860; Home in 1860: New Orleans Ward 6, Orleans, Louisiana; Roll: M653_419; Page: 62; Family History Library Film: 803419
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7667 #38544068
  Henriette Delyle (60), Superior, in New Orleans Ward 6, Orleans, Louisiana. Born in Louisiana.

See also:

• Photograph of Henriette Delille, circa 1855, courtesy of Sisters of the Holy Family (New Orleans), see photograph attached to profile
• Borgia Hart, Sister Mary Francis, S.S.F. Violets in the King’s Garden: A History of the Sisters of the Holy Family of New Orleans, New Orleans, La: Archives of the Sisters of the Holy Family. Unpublished.
• Clark, Emily, and Virginia M. Gould. “The Feminine Face of Afro-Catholicism in New Orleans, 1727–1852.” William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 2 (2002): 409–48.
• Davis, Cyprian. Henriette Delille: Servant of Slaves, Witness to the Poor, New Orleans, LA: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 2004.
• Fessenden, Tracy. “The Sisters of the Holy Family and the Veil of Race.” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, vol. 10, no.2. (2000): 187–224.
• Gould, Virginia Meacham. Henriette Delille, Strasbourg, France: Éditions du Signe, 2012.
• Schafer, Judity Kelleher. Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA: LSU, 1994.