Theotiste Thibodeau (abt. 1740 - 1824)

Born about 1740 in Faux Rivieres, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Bonaventure Godin — married 1760 in Acadie

Wife of Firmin Landry — married 1770 in Louisiana

Descendants

Died 1824 at about age 84 in St Martinville, St Martin Parish, Louisiana, USA

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Biography

THEOTISTE THIBODEAU, veuve BONAVENTURE GODIN is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 3 Right, listed with her is their daughter Anne Barbe.^[1]

Theotiste Thibodeau, daughter of Charles Thibodeau and Brigitte Breau, was born in Faux Rivieres, Acadie, in the British-ruled Colony of Nova Scotia about 1743. ^{[citation needed]} When Theotiste was only 12 years old, the British governor of Nova Scotia decided to expel all Acadian residents of the colony, and they had to leave. Her family resisted until they either were captured or they surrendered to the British, and were interned at Halifax.

Her exile story is not fully known here, but we know from her daughter's age of 5 in Louisiana in 1766,^[2] and from that daughter's second marriage record, which names her parents, that Theotiste married Bonaventure Gaudin (Godin),^[3] probably in Halifax, Nova Scotia, c.1760. About 200 of the Acadians imprisoned there waited for their leader, Joseph Broussard, dit Beausoleil, to finish his extended sentence, then set sail to eventually settle in Louisiana. By that time, Bonaventure had died, whether in Halifax or in Haiti on the way to Louisiana is unknown.

Theotiste settled in Cabanocey, Louisiana, at the "Acadian Coast" settlement on the Mississippi River, at first in the household of friends or family.^[2]

She married second to Firmin Landry about 1770 in Louisiana.

Known children of the marriage:

1. Francoise Landry (1770)
2. Hubert Landry (1773)
3. Helene Landry (1774)
4. Rosalie Landry (1776)
5. Valentin Landry (1778)
6. Agnes Landry (1784)^[4]
7. Marguerite Landry (1789)

Theotiste Thibodeaux died in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana in 1824. She was about 81 years old. ^{[citation needed]}

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Scott, LA: Hulco, 2002) p. 17.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Lillian C. Bourgeois, Cabanocey, (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1998) p. 163;

   Text: On the right [sic] bank of the Mississippi River, on 6 arpents of land, with 5 hogs and 2 guns:

   Jean Baptiste BERGERON, 44;

   Marguerite BERNARD, his wife, 36;

   Jean Baptiste, son, 16;

   Marin, son, 12;

   Mathurin, son, 10;

   Marie, daughter, 14;

   Theotiste THIBODAU, widow GODIN, 26;

   Barbé, her daughter, 5.

3. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900, compact disk #101 ("SWLR CD"), (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; reprints by Claitor's Publications);

   GAUDIN, Marie Anne - widow of Rene BROUSSARD; a Catholic (dec. Bonaventure & Theotiste THIBODEAU of Acadie) m. 26 Oct. 1800 Noble WILKINS - from Ireland; a Lutheran (John & Eugenie or Ojens [perhaps Jeni or Genie] SMILEY) *not entered in the St. Martin church registers (NI Ch.: OA-#7)

4. ↑ Hébert, SWLR CD;

   LANDRY, Agnes (Firmin & Theotiste THIBAUDAU) b. 11 Dec. 1784, bt. 1 Jan. 1785 Spons: Hubert LANDRY & Anne ADES(?) Fr. GEFFROTIN (SM Ch.: v.3, #28)

See also:

• Winston De Ville, Attakapas Post: The Census of 1771, (Author, 1986);

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 Southwestern Louisiana, in Lafayette, LA) p. 12;

Firmin LANDRY, age 43, with wife (?), and children: Joseph (?) LANDRY, age (?); Madeleine LANDRY, age 15 (?); Saturnin LANDRY, age 16; two younger girls, age 10 and 8. They have 28 cattle and 7 horses, on 12 arpents of land, without title.

• Winston DeVille, Marriage Contracts of the Attakapas Post, 1760-1803, (St. Martinville, LA: Attakapas Historical Assoc., Special Publication No. 1, 1966) p. 66;

"1774 Census of Attakapas" by Jane Guillory Bulliard & Leona Trosclair David.

Text: No. 173: Fermin LANDRY sa femme; with 6 children, 25 cattle, 7 horses or mules, 8 hogs, and 6 sheep.