Marie Louise Josephine (Mahé-Desportes) Hacker (1787 - 1819)

Born 5 May 1787 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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Died 11 Jun 1819 at age 32 in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Biography

Her parents owned a plantation on Saint-Domingue; this seems to have been in the area of Arcahaye, outside of Port au Prince, since his family's records appear in the Arcahaye parish register.

Baptismal record:

D'an mille sept cent quatre vingt huit et le dix-huitieme jour du mois de juin a ete baptise Louise Fortune Marie Josephine, nee le cinq may de l'annee derniere, fille legitime de sieur Jean Baptiste Desport Mahe, et de dame Margueritte Goutelle de Beaumiere . . .

In year one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, eighteenth day of June, was baptized Marie Josephine Louise Fortune, born the fifth of May of last year, legitimate daughter of Sieur Jean Baptiste Desport Mahe and lady Margueritte Goutelle of Beaumiere . . .

Records for the birthdates (and relations) of Pierre Hacker's children comes from the Archdiocese Records of New Orleans (records of St. Louis Cathedral), especially baptismal records, and parish registers from Saint-Domingue.

She appears in the "General Index of all Successions Opened in the Parish of Orleans from the year 1805 to the year 1846 (comp. P.M. Bertin [Yeomans & Fitch: New Orleans, 1849]) as "Hacker, Marie L.J. Mahe Desportes, wife of. No volume or page number is given (102) (see on archive.org).

Probate document filed by Pierre Hacker after her death:

"Marie Louise Josephine Mahe-Desportes, the wife of your petitioner, departed this life on 11 June 1819, leaving 3 children born of her lawful marriage with your said petitioner, to wit: Jean Baptiste Hacker, about thirteen years and a half, Pierre Hacker about six years and a half, and Marguerite Hacker about four years and a half. That by the laws of the state, he is entitled to the tutorship of his said minor children. And your petitioner further says that he wishes to have the rights of his aforesaid children settled, and that's an inventory of the property which was in community between their mother and your petitioner be made. Wherefore he humbly prays that your honor may be pleased to admit him to take the usual of it's as natural guardian of his aforesaid minor children, to appoint them an [??] tutor and to authorize Mr. Lafitte, Esq., notary public of the city to take an inventory of the above {???] and property."`

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• http://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I12671&tree=Pitard