Francois Louis Gaudet (abt. 1728 - 1803)

Born about 1728 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Madeleine Hebert — married 1751 in Beaubassin, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 1803 at about age 75 in Lafourche Parish, Orleans Territory, USA

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Biography

Louis Godet is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Plaque 12 Right, La Caroline, Arrivee Le Decembre 1785. Listed with him is his spouse Marie Hebert and three children: Francois Louis, Magdalaine and Margueritte.^[1]

Louis Gaudet of Beaubassin, Acadie, son of Augustine Gaudet and Agnes Chiasson, was born about 1731 (some sources have 1727). He married Marie Hebert in Beaubassin around 1750.^[2] They had eleven children, the first six or seven of whom were born in Acadia from 1752-1764; the rest born in France from 1767-1772.^[2][3]

Children:

1. Marie Gaudet (1752)
2. Jean Gaudet (c.1753) in Beaubassin, Acadia
3. Pontiff Gaudet (c.1755) in Beaubassin, Acadia
4. Madeleine Gaudet (c.1757)
5. Felicite Gaudet (1760) b: 15 May 1760 in Restigouche, New Brunswick, c: 20 Jul 1760 in Restigouche, New Brunswick
6. Basile Gaudet (1761)
7. Marguerite Gaudet (1764)
8. Marie Modeste Gaudet (1767) in Miquelon, France
9. Jean Gaudet (1769) France
10. Pierre Gaudet (1770) La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France
11. Francois Louis Gaudet (1772) Loire-Atlantique, France

By the end of the war they were prisoners of the English, and in 1763 were on a list of Acadian prisoners at Fort Cumberland as of August 24, 1763.^[4][5] Their land was ceded to the British by the 1763 Treaty of Paris. They remained at Cumberland, St.Pierre et Miquelon until arrangements were made for their deportation to France.^[6]

The family was among the last wave of French exiled by the British; they and five children were exiled to France aboard La Felicite in the fall of 1767.^[7] In 1772 they were counted on the census at La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France with five children. ^[8]

The family lived in Chatellerault (Vienne), where Louis worked as a seaman, until 1775, when they left for Nantes.^[9] The youngest three children (Madeleine, Marguerite and Francois) left Nantes with their parents on the Spanish ship la Caroline on 19 October 1785, bound for Louisiana.^[3][10]

They arrived at the port of New Orleans on 17 December 1785 on one of the "Seven Ships," (La Caroline).^[11] They were on the embarkation list of L'Amitié but immigrated to Louisiana aboard La Caroline which left two months later. Perhaps they were overlooked or they missed the boat.

They were living in Lafourch Parish in 1788^[12][13] and in 1791-1797 with slaves.^[14]

Louis' wife died in Lafourche Parish Louisiana before 1 August 1801, the date her succession was opened. He died in 1803 in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.^[15][16]

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. 45
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Elmer Gaudet, "Francois Louis Gaudet dit Louis and Marie Magdelaine Hebert" ("E. Gaudet") (author, 2011) Source courtesy Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com.
   • Francois Louis Gaudet, son of Augustin Gaudet and Agnes Chiasson was born around 1727 at Tintamarre (Middle Sackville area), Beaubassin, Acadie. Beaubassin was a whole region comprising 33 villages of which Tintamarre was just one, but with the four neighboring ones made up the Tintamarre Settlement. He married around 1750 at Beaubassin to Marie Magdelaine HEBERT.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Gérard-Marc Braud, Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785 (Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999) p. 117.
4. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes, Première Partie 1636-1714 (Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999) p. 685. Source provided by Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com.

   Text: He was on the 1763 census at Fort Beauséjour.

5. ↑ E. Gaudet,

   Text: The “List of Acadian Prisoners at Fort Cumberland as of August 24, 1763” contained 374 names. Louis Gaudet and his family were included on this list. None on the list knew how to sign their names and made their usual mark, which was probably an X. Listed on the list were Louis Gaudet, his wife Marie Gaudet and 4 children, Marie, Magdelaine, Jean and Pointif [sic].

6. ↑ E. Gaudet,

   Francois Louis Gaudet and his family were at Miquelon (St. Pierre et Miquelon, et a Miquelon) in 1766 and 1767 as prisoners. The family is listed in the 1767 Census as prisoners in Cumberland at St. Pierre et Miquelon.

7. ↑ E. Gaudet,

   Text: Between October and December of 1767, 763 people (almost all Acadians) left the islands, 586 went to France. Francois Louis Gaudet and his family were in this group of 586.

   The family was exiled to France aboard La Felicite in fall of 1767 listed as family # 2. On the list for La Felicite were Louis, Marie (his wife), Magdelaine (their daughter), Bazile (their son), Marguerite (their daughter), Marie (their daughter) and Marie Modeste (their new born daughter). La Felicite departed Nova Scotia and Miquelon and the family disembarked at LaRochelle, France Monday 9 Nov. 1767.

8. ↑ Milton P. Rieder, Jr & Norma Gaudet Rieder, Acadians in France, Vol. I; 1762-1776 (Metairie, LA: Authors, 1967) p. 58

   Text: "Roll of the Truly Acadian Famlies--September 15, 1772"

   Louis GAUDET, 44, laborer, fisherman and day laborer, of La Rochelle;

   Marie HEBERT, 42, his wife, spins;

   Basile, 11, their son, at school;

   Francois Louis, 4 mo.[nths], their son;

   Marie, 21, their daughter, apprentice dressmaker;

   Madeleine, 17, their daughter, knits;

   Margueritte, 7, their daughter.

9. ↑ E. Gaudet,

   Text: On 24 October 1775 listed on Acadian Families Comprising the First Convoy :Leaving Chatellerault for Nantes.

   Louis Gaudet, 44, seaman; Marie Hebert, 45, his wife; Bazile, 14, their son; Francois Louis, 4, their son; Marie, 24, their daughter; Madeleine, 20, their daughter; and Marguerite, 10, their daughter.

10. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796 (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 503; On list from NANTES

    Census: Sep 1784 Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France

    Text" Louis GAUDÉE, with wife Marie HÉBERT, 2 sons, 3 daughters, for a total of 7 in family. [Note: was the other son Basile? and did he die en route to Louisiana?]

11. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995). Source courtesy Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com. pp. 70-71 & 106-107

    Text: Louis GAUDET, a carpenter age 57, traveling with his wife Marie HÉBERT, age 54, and three children as the 4th family (of 5 persons) aboard "La Caroline," which debarked in Louisiana on 17 Dec 1785. They were also listed as the 24th family (of 5 persons) to embark on "L'Amitié," which arrived in Louisiana on 8 Nov 1785. They were not on the debarkation list, however.

12. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., Louisiana Census and Militia Lists, vol. I (New Orleans, LA: Polyanthos, 1977)

    Note: 1770-1789, German Coast, New Orleans, Below New Orleans and Lafourche. The census dated here 1 Jan 1789 appears to have been taken at least as early as 1 Jan 1788. It is from: Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 202. p. 140. Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com. Note: KTR poses the question: "Why is there double the amount of land most settlers have? [was it] For his teen-age son?"

    Text: Louis GAUDET, age 61, listed with his wife Marie HEBERT, age 58, and two children in a household of 4 persons. They have 12 arpents of land, 150 quarts of corn, 2 head of cattle, 2 horses, and 20 hogs.

13. ↑ E. Gaudet,

    Text: The 1788 census of Lafourche listed Louis Gaudet age 60, Marie Hebert age 57, Francois Louis Gaudet age 14 and Magdeleine age 30. They owned six arpents (about 5 acres) of land on the left bank of Bayou Lafourche descending, 125 quarts of corn, two cows and eight swine.

    [Editor ELG b. 1938 note 11 April 2011: 3 arpents of frontage on Bayou Lafourche owned by Louis Gaudet should have a current address of 857 Louisiana Highway 308].

14. ↑ E. Gaudet,

    Text: The 1791 census of Lafourche listed Louis Gaudet age 63, Marie Hebert age 60, Francois age 18 and Magdelaine age 34. By this time they owned one slave, thirteen arpents of land, 300 quarts of corn, fourteen horned cows and thirty swine.

    Census: 1797 Lafourche Parish

    Text: By 1797 Louis owned three slaves. In 1798, Louis owned land that was eighteen arpents wide by twenty arpents deep or 360 square arpents (about 304 acres). The land was located along Bayou Lafourche adjacent to the Lafourche Crossing.

15. ↑ Donald J. Hebert, South Louisiana Records, vol. 1, 1794-1840 (Rayne, LA: Hebert Publications, 1978) p. 231.

    Text: Luis GAUDET married to Maria HEBERT, inventory dated 1 Aug 1801 at Lafourche Parish Courthouse, Thibodaux, LA (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ. #1) [Note: This citation does not prove the statement that cites it.]

16. ↑ E. Gaudet:

    Section 55, land granted to Louis Gaudet, was bounded on the northwest by that of Francois Louis Gaudet, Sr.,[Jr??] his son, and was bounded on the southwest by that of Bellony Babin, in front by Bayou Lafourche, and in the rear by section 90, belonging to his son, the above Francois Louis. Louis opened the succession of his wife, Marie Hebert on 1 August 1801, after her death. For appraisal of the property, two appraisers were appointed by the Spanish Commandant, Thomas de Villenueva Barroso. By this time, Louis had bought two more parcels of land, sections 53 and 54, from Girod and Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois. The appraisers were Julien Blanchard and Joseph Breaux. Louis kept the property, while all the movables were sold to settle with his children.

    All his children were present except Marie (1755-1816), who was then in Nantes, France. The total amount of the succession amounted to 3,613 pesos and 5 reales, which was held by Louis Gaudet until his death in 1803. His succession written in Spanish contains mention of slaves from the Congo. One “was a wild woman when bought, a thief but a good worker.” There was a pirogue 37 feet long with rudder. His home was 25 feet X 16 feet or 560 square feet with a porch on three sides, built on wooden blocks, a kitchen built on posts in the ground 20 square feet, a store house of the same size, with two negro cabins and 3,000 fence posts. The same year he died, he had built a sugar mill on Dove Martinez’s property for grinding his sugar cane.

See Also:

• Ancestry Family Tree 51767949
• Ancestry.com, Whitney&Sidney Dartez, Dartez Web Site
• MyHeritage.com family tree, Family tree: 6239646-5

Acknowledgments

Karen Theriot Reader, Rootsweb.com