Marguerite Blanchard (abt. 1762 - 1817)

Born about 1762 in Baltimore, Province of Maryland

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Baptiste Allain — married about 1780 in Louisiana, New Spain [uncertain]

Wife of Etienne Comeau — married 31 May 1792 in Saint Gabriel, Iberville, Louisiana, New Spain

Descendants

Died Nov 1817 at about age 55 in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Blanchard Name Study.

JOSEPH BLANCHARD is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 1-R. Listed with him is his wife, Marie Joseph Landry, and their children, Firmin, Marguerite, and Joseph.^[1]

Marguerite Blanchard was born about 1762 in Baltimore, Province of Maryland, daughter of exiled Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Marie Josèphe Landry.

Her known siblings were:

1. Firmin Blanchard (c.1760 - 1803)
2. Anselme Olivier Blanchard (1767 - c.1777)
3. Marie Josephe (Blanchard) Landry (c.1769 - 1823)
4. Anne Martha (Blanchard) LeBlanc (1770 - 1858)
5. Pierre Isidore Blanchard (1772 - 1819)
6. Victor Blanchard (1774 - )

She was listed on the 1763 census in Baltimore with her parents and brother Firmin. ^[2][3]

By July 1767, the family had immigrated to Louisiana through the port of New Orleans. Marguerite, age 5, appeared on a census with her parents and brothers Firmin, age 7, and Joseph, 15 months old. ^[4] They established themselves in St. Gabriel, Louisiana shortly thereafter (August 1767).^[5]

Marie Marguerite married Jean Baptiste Allain in Louisiana around 1780.^[6]

Their known children were:

1. Jean Baptiste Allain (1781 - 1834)
2. Pierre Allain (1782- )
3. Marie Elise Allain (1784- )
4. Marie Marguerite Allain (1786- )
5. Landry Allain (1787- )
6. Bernard Sosthene Allain (1789 )

Widowed, Marie Marguerite married Etienne Comeau on 31 May 1792 in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana.^[7]

Their known children were:

1. Joseph Valery Comeaux (1793 - 1822)^[8]
2. Marie Clemence (Comeau) Landry (1794 - 1821)^[9]
3. Marie Comeau (1797- )^[10]
4. Gilbert Comeau (1798- )^[11]
5. Marie Carmelite Comeau (1801- )^[12]
6. Marie Constance Hortense Comeau

Marie Marguerite died in November 1817. She was given the age of 64 but in reality, based on the censuses, she was about 55 years old. Her burial took place on 24 November 1817 in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana,^[13]

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. 11.
2. ↑ Janet Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, (Covington, KY: Author, 1977) pp. 147 & 158

   "a l'ile de Baltimord [sic], Etat de gens neutrals Acadiens qui sont a Baltimore En Maryland"

   marque + de Joseph Blanchard, Mari Joseph Lendry, Firmin Blanchard, Marguerite Blanch+ .... 4

   "at the isle of Baltimord, State of the Neutral Acadians Who Are at Baltimore in Maryland"

   Mark of Joseph BLANCHARD, Mari [sic] Joseph LENDRY, Firmin BLANCHARD, Marguerite BLANCH (sic)

3. ↑ Gregory A. Wood, The French Presence in Maryland, 1524-1800, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1978) p. 188.

   BLANCHARD, Joseph, Marie Joseph LANDRY, Firmin BLANCHARD, Marguerite BLANCHARD.

4. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973).

   On List of Acadian Families Who Came to Louisiana to be Established in the Year 1767 signed by Julian Alverez, found in the Papeles procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 114: No. 9.

   Joseph BLANCHER (BLANCHARD), age 39;

   Maria Joseph, 29;

   Fermin, son, 7;

   Joseph, son, 15 months;

   Margerita, daughter, 5.

5. ↑ R. E. Chandler, End of an Odyssey: Acadians Arrive in St. Gabriel, Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1973), pp. 69-87 URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4231303; pp. 69-87.

   On "List of the Acadian Families That Have Come to Establish Themselves in This Province of Louisiana and an Account of Their Belongings" Originals in Seville, Spain: General Archives of the Indies, Section 5, Government, Audiencia of Santo Domingo, Legajo 2585. pp. 81 & 82;

   Jph BLANCHAR (Joseph BLANCHARD), with his wife and three children, on 6 arpents of land.

6. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader, Page for Marguerite Blanchard, citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'études acadiennes, draft version)

   ALLAIN #8 a & #15 No place given for marriage.

7. ↑ "Louisiana Marriages, 1816-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VK18-JT7 : 14 January 2020), Margarita Blanchard in entry for Esteban Comeaux, 1792.
8. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WK-F6L : 14 January 2020), Margarita Blanchard in entry for Joseph Valerie Comeaux, 1793.
9. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WV-Q8Z : 14 January 2020), Margarita Blanchard in entry for Maria Comeaux, 1794.
10. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WV-Q86 : 14 January 2020), Margarita Blanchar in entry for Maria Comeaux, 1797.
11. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WV-69K : 14 January 2020), Margarita Blanchar in entry for Gilberio Comeaux, 1798.
12. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WK-3WX : 14 January 2020), Marguerite Blanchard in entry for Marie Carmelite Comeaux, 1801.
13. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 3, 1804-1819, (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1982) p. 108;

    Marguerite [BLANCHARD], age 64 [sic], spouse of Etienne COMEAU, buried on 25 Nov 1817 at St. Gabriel Catholic Church, Iberville, LA (SGA-8, 84).

See also:

(Note: some of the information in these family trees is unsourced and inaccurate)

• LDS family tree - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K892-HRB
• LDS family tree - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MZQV-Y9Z