Louis Closquinet (1730 - abt. 1802)

Born 7 Apr 1730 in Port-Lajoie, Isle Saint-Jean, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Daigre — married 15 Nov 1774 in Pleudihen, Cotes d'Armor, France

Died about 15 Aug 1802 at about age 72 in Assumption Parish, Louisiana

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Biography

Louis Clausinet is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 11 Left. Travelling with him was his wife Marie-Marguerite Daigle/Daigre and Marie's daughter Genevieve Giroir. It isn't clear from the booklet whether they are also on the plaque with him; however, they are on the ship list.^[1] The ship arrived in New Orleans 3 Dec 1785.^[2]

Louis was born on 7 April 1730 at Port-Lajoie, Isle Saint-Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island) and was baptized informally at birth by the priest because of the too great distance from the church. The formal baptism took place on 22 May 1730 at Port-Lajoie.^[3] He was the son of Louis Closquinet dit Desmoulins and Marguerite Longuépée. His godparents were Sir Pothier Dubuisson, sub-delegate to the intendant of New France, and Renée Daccarrette de Vilmé.

He was listed at age 22 in the 1752 census at Rivière-de-Pesiguit, west-side, Isle Saint-Jean, with his parents and siblings.^[4]

Death: in Louisiana; Burial: 15 Aug 1802 Plattenville, Assumption, LA 1^[5]

Census: 1793 New Feliciana, Louisiana^[6]

Census: 1810, Assumption, Louisiana. ^[7]

Marriage 2 Louis CLOSQUINET b: Abt 1730 in Acadia

Sources

1. ↑ Title: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Author: Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; Personal copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; p. 42
2. ↑ The 7 Ships Passenger Lists (Note: also has scans of actual ship manifests); Published by Acadian-Cajun Genealogy & History; Internet; Seven Spanish Ships

   Louis CLOSSINET - 54

   Marie DAIGLE, wife - 37

   Genevieve GIROIR, Marie's daughter - 16

3. ↑ Archives Nationales d'outre-mer État civil, Ile Saint-Jean (Port La Joye) Parish Records 1721-1758, Year 1730, p. 2 Louis Cloccinet Baptism, 22 May 1730, accessed October 2020.
4. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 96/image 222. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ”

   at Rivière-de-Pesiguit, west side: Louis Closquinet dit Desmoulins, ploughman, native of France, aged 66 years, has been in the country 25 years. Married to Margueritte Longueépée, native of l'Acadie, aged 52 years. They have four sons and one daughter:-
   Louis Closquinet, aged 22 years.
   Joseph, aged 19 years.
   Jean Baptiste, aged 19 years.
   Aimable, aged 13 years.
   Louise Genneviève, aged 17 years.
   Their live stock consists of the following: nine oxen, six cows, four heifers, one bull, one horse, one mare with colt, eight wethers, fifteen ewes, fourteen pigs, eight sows, and twenty fowls or chickens. The land upon which they are settled is situated as in the preceding case. It was given to them by messieurs Duvivier and Degoutin. They have made a clearing on it for sowing sixty-four bushels of grain, where they have sowed thirty-two bushels of wheat, fourteen bushels of peas, and ten bushels of oats.

5. ↑ Title: Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records; Author: Catholic Church; Vol 2, 1770-1803; Contains Baptismal, marriage and burial entries taken from some 46 registers housed in the Archives of the Diocese of Baton Rouge; copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; p. 210

   Text: Luis [CROXINNETTE, sic], age 72 years, married to Margarita DAIGLE, buried 15 Aug 1802. (ASM-3, 33).

6. ↑ Title: New Feliciana in the Province of Louisiana: A Guide to the Census of 1793; Author: Winston De Ville Publication: Ville Platte, LA: Author, 1987; p. 7; Source published by Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com

   Text: Louis CLOETINET: one old male, one old wife, one middle female child.

7. ↑ Title: U.S. federal census [online] "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK8P-PNMS : accessed 29 September 2018), Pierre Gautreau, Assumption, Louisiana, United States; citing p. 23, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 10; FHL microfilm 181,355.

   Text: Line [2], Pierre GAUTREAU:

   [Pierre is age 47 (not 26-44), his wife Genevieve GIROUARD is 41. Is the older woman over 45 her mother Marie Marguerite DAIGRE, age around 66? Their sons are: Louis, age 10; Jean Baptiste, age 8; and Hubert Charles, age 4. Their daughters: Constance Marguerite, age 11; and Celeste Henriette, age 1.]

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