Marie Madeleine Landry (1723 - abt. 1790)

Born 1723 in Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Désiré (Leblanc) LeBlanc — married about 1740 in Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Wife of Pierre Landry — married 19 Feb 1778 in St James Parish, Louisiana

Descendants

Died about 16 Jan 1790 at about age 67 in Ascension Parish, Spanish Louisiana

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Biography

Desire LeBlanc is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 4 Right. Listed with him is his wife Marie Landry and 11 children: Marie, Simon, Isaac, Jerome, Isabelle, Desire, Marine, Ozite, Benjamin, Anselme and Gregoire. ^[1]

Marie Madeleine Landry was born about 1723 in Acadia. She was deported to Maryland during the Seven Years' War by the British c.1756, and after the Treaty of Paris in 1763 was free to migrate west to the (then) Spanish colony of Louisiana.

She died in January 1790 in Ascension Parish, Spanish Louisiana and was buried 16 January 1790 in the Ascension Parish Cemetery in present-day Donaldsonville.^[2][3]

Residences

Census: 7 Jul 1763, Oxford, Talbot, Maryland ^[4]

Census: 14 Sep 1769, Acadian Coast, Ascension, Louisiana ^[5]

Census: 1 Aug 1770, Ascension, Louisiana ^[6]

Census: 23 Apr 1777, Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana ^[7]

Marriage/Children

Marriage (1): Desire LE BLANC, c.1740 in Acadia

Children:

1. Simon LE BLANC b: Abt 1741 in Grand Pré, Acadia
2. Marie Madeleine LE BLANC b: Abt 1742 in Acadia
3. Marie Esther LE BLANC b: Abt 1744 in Acadia
4. Isaac LE BLANC b: Abt 1746 in Grand Pré, Acadia
5. Marie Marthe LE BLANC b: Abt 1748 in Grand Pré, Acadia
6. Jerome LE BLANC b: Abt 1749 in Grand Pré, Acadia
7. Desire LE BLANC b: Abt 1751 in Grand Pré, Acadia
8. Elisabeth LE BLANC b: Abt 1753 in , Acadia
9. Marie Anne LE BLANC b: Abt 1755 in Grand Pré, Acadia
10. Osite LE BLANC b: Abt 1758 in Oxford, Talbot, MD
11. Benjamin LE BLANC b: Abt 1760 in Oxford, Talbot, MD
12. Anselme LE BLANC b: Abt 1763 in Oxford, Talbot, MD
13. Gregoire LE BLANC b: Abt Apr 1769 in Ascension, LA

Marriage (2): Pierre (dit Pierrot a Jacques) LANDRY, 19 Feb 1778 in St. James, St. James, Louisiana ^{[8] [9]}

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by the Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller the Printer, 2015) p. 21
2. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Vol 2, 1770-1803, Catholic Church, comp. (BR, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge) p. 437

   Text: Maria LANDRY, age 72 years (sic), buried 16 Jan 1790 at Ascension Catholic Church, Donaldsonville, LA (ASC-4, 5, #13).

3. ↑ Probate: 20 January 1790 , Ascension, Louisiana. Ascension Parish, Louisiana, Civil Records, 1770-1804, Eileen Larré Behrman, comp. (Conroe, TX: Author, 1986) pp. 60-61

   Text: Sale requested by widower and heirs, amounted to 2,614 piastres, 1 reaux. Included were four slaves.

4. ↑ Janet Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, (Covington, KY: Author, 1977) pp. 144 & 156

   Text:

   "Recensement des habitants Neutres de Lacadie détenus a Oxford, En Maryland"

   Desiré Le Blanc, Marie son epouse, Magd'ne et Isaac Le Blanc, Marie et Jerome Le Blanc, Desiré Le Blanc, Elizabeth et Anne Le Blanc, Ozith et Benjamin Le Blanc, Anselme Le Blanc ....

   "Census of the Neutral Inhabitans [sic] of Acadia Detained at Oxford, in Maryland"

   Désiré LE BLANC, Marie his wife, Magdne and Isaac LE BLANC, Marie and Jérome LE BLANC, Désiré LE BLANC, Elizabeth and Anne LE BLANC, Ozith and Benjamin LE BLANC, Anselme LE BLANC.

5. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois, Cabanocey, (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1998) p. 175; Note: Original in Archivo General de Indias, Papeles procedentes de Cuba, legajo 187A.

   Text: #73 Deziré LEBLANC, 52;

   Marie LANDRY, wife, 46;

   Deziré, son, 16;

   Binjamain, son, 9;

   Enselme, son, 6;

   Grégoire, son, 5 months;

   Izabelle, daughter, 18;

   Marine, daughter, 14;

   Ozitte, daughter, 11;

   Augustin BROUSSARD, nephew, 20.

6. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, Jr, Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770 (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1980) citing General Census of the Habitants of Valenzuela of Lafourche, Two Thousand Sixty-four Persons; April 10, 1797; /s/ N, Verret; (Original: Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 215A) p. 3

   Text: #39.

   Desire LE BLANC, 53, 9 arpents of land;

   Marie LANDRY, his wife, 48;

   Desire LE BLANC, his son, 17;

   Benjamin LE BLANC, id, 10;

   Anselme LE BLANC, id, 8;

   Gregoire LE BLANC, id, 1;

   Elizabeth LE BLANC, his daughter, 18;

   Marie LE BLANC, id, 15;

   Ozide LE BLANC, id, 12.

7. ↑ Robichaux, p. 13

   Text: #35.

   Marie LANDRY, Widow LE BLANC, 53, 8 arpents, 16 cattle, 1 horse, 8 swine, 2 guns;

   Binjamin LE BLANC, her son, 16;

   Enselme LE BLANC, id, 15;

   Gregoire LE BLANC, id, 8;

   Ozitte LE BLANC, her daughter, 19.

8. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Vol 2, 1770-1803, Catholic Church, comp. (BR, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge) pp. 442, 447 & 933

   LANDRY, Marie widow of Desire LeBlanc (parents not given) m. 29 Feb 1778, Pierre LANDRY, widower of Frosine Gautreau (parents not given) wit. Jeromme LeBlanc & Jean Baptiste Landry (SJA-1, 47a)

   Text: Pierre LANDRY, widower of Frosine GAUTREAU (parents not given) married on 29 Feb [sic, only goes to 28 in this year] 1778 to Marie LANDRY, widow of Desiré LeBLANC (parents not given). Witnesses: Jeromme [sic] LeBLANC & Jean Baptiste LANDRY. Recorded at St. James Catholic Church, St. James, LA (SJA-1, 47a).

9. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes, (Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999) p. 933

   Text: Pierre dit Pierrot a Chaques LANDRY, son of Abraham & Marie-Isabelle BLANCHARD (widower of Genevieve BROUSSARD & Euphrosine GAUTROT), married (St. James of Cabahannocer Register) 19 Feb 1778 to Marie-Madeleine LANDRY, daughter of Abraham & Marie GUILBEAU.

Acknowledgements

Karen Theriot Reader Rootsweb.com.

Jacqueline Girouard