Amand Pierre Thibodeau (1734 - 1818)

Born 18 Jan 1734 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Gertrude Marie Bourg — married 27 Feb 1765 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Descendants

Died 24 Jun 1818 at age 84 in Lapointe, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

OLIVIER THIBODEAU is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Plaque 6 Left. Listed with him are his spouse Madeleine Broussard, their children Marie and Theodore; also Isabelle Landry and Anne Landry, his step-daughters, and Amand Thibodeau, his brother.^[1]

Amand Thibodeau served with Attakapas Militia, Louisiana Militia during the American Revolution.

Amand Pierre Thibodeau, son of Charles Thibodeau and Marie Francoise Comeau, was born 18 January 1734 in Acadia.^[2][3] He was christened 4 May 1734 in Beaubassin, Acadia ^[4] Amand died died at La pointe, now called Breaux Bridge, Louisiana on 24 Jun 1818 and was buried the next day at St. Martinvile Parish cemetery.^[5]

Amand and Gertrude went to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard, arriving in New Orleans in February 1765 with the Joseph Broussard party.

Excerpt from THE INITIAL ACADIAN SETTLEMENT (Archived Link) by Donald J. Arceneaux.

Quartel de la Manque/Camp de La Manque was probably along the Fausse Pointe oxbow between the upper and lower bends, that is, between Quartel de el Caño de Tortugas/Camp du Bayou des Tortue and Quartel de la Punta/Camp de la Pointe. Again, I also believe that the 1765 Le Premier Camp d’en Bas site was somewhere in the general area of the 1766 Le Camp de La Manque location, although the only clue that links the two sites is the 1765 baptismal association between the Marie Dugas and Ambroise Martin dit [Barnabé].

After Olivier and Amand Thibodeau, Claude Martin, and Simon LeBlanc relocated north from La Manque and Gregoire Pellerin moved south, their former lands were now vacant. Étienne de Vaugine may have occupied some of this land in 1771. His land grant possibly included some vacated Acadian land in the 1766 La Manque sector and some in the La Pointe sector. In February 1772, de Vaugine’s neighbor down the bayou was his brother-in-law, Delahoussaye. His upstream neighbors were some of the La Manque residents who did not relocate.^[6]

Marriage

Shortly after arriving in Louisiana, Amand Thibodeau and Gertrude Marie Bourg, daughter of Charles Jacques Bourg and Anne (Titan) Boudrot, were married in New Orleans 27 February 1765. ^[7]

They had 11 children^[8]:

1. Marguerite Blandine Claudine Thibodeau (about 1766 – Jul 1856) .
2. Isaac Pierre Thibodeaux (about 1768 – Aug 15 1833) .
3. Louise Constance Thibodeau (Sep 22 1771 – Nov 9 1859) .
4. Gertrude Thibodeaux (Jan 30 1778 – Feb 9 1813) .
5. Annette Thibodeau (about 1780 – before 1880) .
6. Isabelle Thibodeaux (May 30 1782 – Nov 1 1814) .
7. Benjamin Thibodeau (Oct 25 1784 – May 19 1833)

Military

Attakapas Militia Military Service 1 May 1777 Attakapas, St. Martin, Louisiana. ^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

Residences

Census: 25 Apr 1766 La Manque, Louisiana ^[14]

Census: 1769 Attakapas, St. Martin, Louisiana ^[15]

Census: 1771 Attakapas, St. Martin, Louisiana ^[16]

Census: 30 Oct 1774 Attakapas, St. Martin, LA ^[17]

Census: 4 May 1777 Attakapas, St. Martin, LA ^[18]

Census: 1810 Orleans [Territory] ^[19]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 25.
2. ↑ Library and Archives Canada Fonds des Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime [La Rochelle, France] : C-1207 Registres de Beaubassin - reel_c1207 MG 6 A 2 (Image 48) http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1207/48?r=0&s=6
3. ↑ Acadia French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection) 1670-1946, Gabriel Drouin, comp. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin)

   Notes des familles Thibodeau et Doiron

   Text: Enfants de Charles Thibodeau et Francoise COMEAU:

   Amand, ne 18 janvier 1734, b. 3 May following

4. ↑ Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, Acadian Church Records, vol. II (Metairie, LA: Authors, 1976); Note: Covers year 1712-1748. Includes transcripts of Beaubassin, Acadia church registers, now at the Archives of the Mayor of La Rochelle, Charente Maritime, France. p. 40

   Text: Sponsors: Jean LANOYE & Marie TIBAUDAUT.

5. ↑ Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk #101; Donald J. Hébert; Publication: Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; CD 101;

   THIBODEAUX, Amand m. Gertrude BOURG Died 9 June 1827; In Succ. of Gertrude BOURG dated 31 July 1827 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#581)

   BOURG, Gertrude - native of Acadie; spouse of dec. Amand THIBODEAU; died 9 June 1827 at age about 90 years at her home at la pointe; buried 10 June 1827 in the parish cemetery. Fr. Marcel BORELLA (SM Ch.: v.4, #1850)

   BOURG, Gertrude wid. of Amand THIBODEAUX died 9 June 1827 - 9 children: Isaac, Jean Baptiste, Benjamin, Placide, Marguerite wid. Dominique BABINEAU, Louise wid. of Frederick LEBLANC, Anne m. Edouard BROUSSARD, the dec. Isabelle m. Isidore BROUSSARD, Gertrude. Succ. dated 31 July 1827 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#581)

   BROUSSARD, Amand - native of Acadie; inhabitant at la fausse pointe; died 8 Jan. 1818 at age about 64 years at his home; buried 9 Jan. 1818 in the parish cemetery. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.4, #1157).

6. ↑ Donald J. Arceneaux, excerpt from THE INITIAL ACADIAN SETTLEMENT, (Archived Link) citing sources.
7. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900, compact disk #101 (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001):

   Text: THIBODEAUX, Amand - native of Acadie; died 24 June 1818 at age about 87 years at his home at La pointe; buried 25 June 1818 in the parish cemetery. Signed: Valery MARTIN. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.4, #1189)

   Text: BOURG, Gertrude (Jacques & Anne BOUDREAU) m. 27 Feb. 1765 Pierre Amand THIBODEAUX (N.O. Ch.: v.1765)

   THIBODEAUX, Amand of La Chipoudy, Acadie (Charles & Marie COMEAU) m. 27 Feb. 1765 Gertrude BOURQUE of Isle St. Jean, Acadie (NO Ch.: v.1765)

8. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader Children
9. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 10/15/2016), "Record of Amand Thibodeau", Ancestor # A114079.
10. ↑ Atakkapas Gazette, vol. IX, no. 4 (Dec 1974) pp. 178-179

    Note: Also in vol. X, no. 1 (spring 1975), p. 18.

    Text: Patriot listed on the roster of "La Compagnie de Milice des Attakapas." Cites C. Robert Churchill, "S.A.R. Spanish Records; Spanish-English War 1779-1783," pp. 289-290.

11. ↑ National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2003) vol. III, p. 2674

    He has been accepted by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a Revolutionary patriot for some descendants.

    Text: Amant THIBAUDEAU (THIBODEAUX), born around 1731 in Canada, died 24 Jun 1818 in LA. He married 1st Gertrude BOURG. His patriot service was in Louisiana.

12. ↑ DAR
13. ↑ Descendants list
14. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796 (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 125.

    District of the Pointe: Census and list of Militiamen and Acadian householders recently established at the Atakpas according to the survey of April 35, 1766. [La Manque is present-day Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, LA.]

    District de La Manque:

    Armand THIBODEAU, 1 woman.

15. ↑ Donald Joseph Arceneaux, Attakapas Post in 1769--The First Nominal Census of Colonial Settlers in Southwest Louisiana (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's Publishing Division, 2014) pp. 20 & 37

    Text: Amand Tibodeau age 29 [sic]; His wife [on p. 37 woman is identified as Gertrude Bourg age 27, through the research of the author]; Blandine daughter age 2; Izac [Isaac] son age 1; Marguerite Bourque age 25 [sic] [sister of Gertrude][widow of Pierre Pitre]; Marie Gotreau [Gautreau] orphan age 5 [orphan of Pierre Gautreau & Marie-Louise Thibodeau, sister of Amand].

16. ↑ Winston De Ville, Attakapas Post: The Census of 1771 (Baton Rouge, LA: Provincial Press, Claitor's Publishing, Reprint 2010). Note: Transcription of Papales Procedentes de Cuba (in the Archives of the Indies, Seville, Spain), Legajo 188C, on microfilm at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwest Louisiana, in Lafayette, LA.; p. 13

    Text: Amant THIBODAU, age 38, with his wife, age 21 (?). There is also Widow BOURQUES, age 2(?)7; a boy, age 2; two girls, age 4 (?) and ?. They have 10 cattle and 2 horses, on 12 arpents of land, without title.

17. ↑ Winston DeVille, Marriage Contracts of the Attakapas Post, 1760-1803 (St. Martinville, LA: Attakapas Historical Assoc., 1966) Note: Special Publication No. 1. p. 65; Also includes "1774 Census of Attakapas Post" annotated by Jane Guillory Bulliard & Leona Trosclair David. Source published by Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com.

    Text: Amand TIBODEAU et sa femme;

    with 4 children, 0 slaves, 26 cattle, 5 horses or mules, and 20 hogs.

18. ↑ Title: Southwest Louisiana Families in 1777: Census Records of Attakapas and Opelousas Posts; Author: Winston De Ville; Publication: Claitor's Publishing; Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Reprinted June 2010; Author copyright 1987; Note: (Source: Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, at the General Archives of the Indies in Seville, Spain; legajo 2358, folios 258 -300); p. 8

    Text: 18. Amant THIBODAUT, 43;

    Gertrude BOURG, wife, 29.

    Garcons: Izaac, 8;

    Baptiste, 3;

    Amant, 1.

    Filles: Marie Josephe, 13 [Amand's niece];

    Blandine, 10;

    Louise, 5.

    There were 50 cattle, 6 horses, and 30 hogs.

19. ↑ Ancestry.com, "1810 United States Federal Census," Census Place: "Orleans, Louisiana"; Roll: 10; Page: 53; Image: 00050; Family History Library Film: 0181355 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010). Original data: Third Census of the United States, 1810. (NARA microfilm publication M252, 71 rolls). Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. ($)

    Text: Ament THIBODEAU:

    Amint Thibodeau [Ament Thibodeau] [Amont Thebodeau]

    Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Orleans, Louisiana

    Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1

    Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 : 1

    Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1

    Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1

    Numbers of Slaves: 4

    Number of Household Members Over 25: 3

    Number of Household Members: 8

    [Amand would have been 76, his wife Gertrude BOURG about 64. Their youngest son Placide was 22; the other unmarried son was probably Amand or Jean Baptiste. There are four slaves.]