Julien Joseph Babineau (abt. 1764 - 1827)

Born about 1764 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Felicite Cormier — married 1786 in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, New Spain

Descendants

Died 14 Jun 1827 at about age 63 in Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

CHARLES BABINEAU is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 1 Left. Listed with him is his second wife, Anne Guilbeau, and two sons, Dominque and Joseph.^[1]

Settling in the Attakapas District of Spanish Louisiana, Acadians Julien Joseph Babineaux, his brother and their parents were the progenitors of Louisiana's Babineaux family. Julien Joseph was born c.1764, probably at Halifax just after the end of the Seven Years' War. Called Joseph, he was a son of Louis Charles Babineau and his second wife, Anne Guilbeau, and brother of Charles Dominique. He may have come to Louisiana with the Broussard party c.1765.^[2]

In Atakapas census, 1766, District of the Pointe, unnamed, but probably 1 of the 2 boys in the household of Carlos BABINAU; ^{[citation needed]}

In Atakapas census, 1771, unnamed, age 8, with parents & siblings; ^{[citation needed]}

In Atakapas census, 1774, unnamed, with widowed mother & siblings; ^{[citation needed]}

In Atakapas census, 1777, called Joseph, age 12, with widowed mother & siblings; ^{[citation needed]}

In Atakapas census, 1781, unnamed, with widowed mother & others; ^{[citation needed]}

On Atakapas militia list, Aug 1789, called Josef BOBINO; In Atakapas census, 1809, with 11.5 arpents frontage valued at ,000, 2 slaves; ^{[citation needed]}

He married, at age 22, Félicité Cormier, (daughter of Joseph Cormier and his first wife, Marguerite Sonnier of Opelousas District) c.1786; they settled at Carencro. ^{[citation needed]}

Known children of the marriage:

1. Joseph, fils (1787)
2. David (1789)
3. Francois (1790)
4. Julien (1792)
5. Anastasie Terzille (1796)
6. Jean (1801)
7. Eugenie (1811)^[3]

He died in 1827 in Lafayette, Louisiana, and was buried the following day in the church cemetery. Felicite and their children are named in his death record.^[4]

DNA Confirmations

• Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confident based on a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 8 cM segment on chromosome 4, consisting of Ronald Thibodeaux, GEDmatch kit # CM7128676, and Deadra Doucet, his 5th cousin 1x removed, GEDmatch kit # T299183, and Jason Thibodeaux, his 6th cousin 1x removed, GEDmatch kit # LD2475986. (Deadra and Jason are 7th cousins.) Their most-recent common ancestors are Charles Louis Babineau and Anne Guilbeau, the 5x great grandparents of Ronald Thibodeaux and 6x great grandparents of both Deadra Doucet and Jason Thibodeaux.

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds., (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 10.
2. ↑ Steven Cormier, Acadians in Gray, website, full citation and link needed.
3. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWGF-25Y : 14 January 2020), Joseph Babineaux in entry for Eugenie Babineaux, 1811.
4. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900, compact disk #101 ("SWLR CD"), (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; reprints by Claitor's Publications)
   • BABINEAUX, Joseph - spouse of "de feu Dame Felix" [the dec. Mrs. Felice] CORMIER died 14 June 1827 at 4:00 p.m; buried 15 June 1827 in the church cemetery. Fr. Laurent PEYRETTI (Laf. Ch.: v.2, p.41, #121).
   • BABINEAUX, Joseph m. Felicite CORMIER Children: Joseph, fils; David; Julien; Francois; Jean; Terzille m. Augustin BENOIT. Succ. dated 6 Aug. 1827 (Laf. Ct.Hse.: Succ.#112).