Jean Baptiste (Guedry) Guidry (abt. 1762 - aft. 1818)

Born about 1762 in Port Tobacco, Charles, Maryland Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Madeleine (Breaux) Breau — married 14 Jun 1785 in Opelousas, Louisiana, New Spain

Husband of Anne Savoie — married 9 Nov 1818 in Saint Martinville, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States

Descendants

Died after 9 Nov 1818 after about age 56 in Louisiana, United States [uncertain]

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Louisiana Families Project WikiTree [send private message] and Emily Landry [send private message]

Jean Baptiste (Guedry) Guidry lived in Louisiana. Join: Louisiana Families Project Discuss: louisiana

Biography

ANNE DUPUIS veuve JEAN GUEDRY is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 3-R. Listed with her are their children, Firmin, Madeleine, Jean Baptiste, Monique, and Elisabeth.^[1]

Jean Baptiste (Guedry) Guidry is a descendant of an Acadian

His known siblings were:

1. Firmin ‎(Guedry) Guédry (~1753 - 1799)
2. Madeleine Guidry (~1754 - )
3. Jean Baptiste Guidry (~1762 - ~1857)
4. Anne Monique (Guédry) Guedry (1763 - 1842)
5. Elizabeth Guédry (~1765 - ~1769)

After the war's end and their release from imprisonment by the 1763 Treaty of Paris, he, his mother, Anne Magdeleine Dupuis, and their surviving family immigrated to Spanish Louisiana.^[1]

Jean Baptiste married Marie Magdeleine Breaux (1770 - 1815) on 14 June 1785 in Opelousas, Louisiana.^[2][3]

Their known children, all with the modern Louisiana spelling of their surname, were:

1. Jean Baptiste Guidry (1786 - 1853)
2. Augustin Guidry (~1788 - 1810)
3. Eloise Guidry (1788–1836)
4. Joseph Guidry (1791 - >1850)
5. Scholastique (Guidry) Melancon (1795 - 1864)
6. Marie Guidry (1797–1797)
7. Narcisse Guidry (1799 - ~1857)
8. Adelaide Guidry (1801 - )
9. Anastasie (Guidry) Benoit (1804 - ~1885)
10. Marie Carmelite Guidry (1807 - )
11. Jean Valery Guidry (1809 - )
12. Marie Marcellite Guidry (1811–)^[4]
13. Severin Guidry (1815 - )^[5]

Widowed, Jean Baptiste married the widow Anne Savoie (~1767 - 1839) on 9 November 1818 in St. Martinville, St. Martin, Louisiana.^[3]

His death information, at some date after his second marriage, is unknown -- but he is definitely not the man of the same name who died in Lafayette in 1857.

Research Notes

On the conflated 1857 date of death, belonging to a different Jean Baptiste Guidry:

In 1850, if he was still living, our JBG would have been widowed and about 88 years old. The 78 year-old JB Guidry, married to Marie Hebert below, is a different man, as discovered by looking at the Find a Grave memorial-- for him, the other JB -- at the end of this research note. Please do not conflate the two.

A Jean Bte Guidry is listed on the 1850 census in Lafayette, Louisiana as age 78, a planter, and living with a 72 year-old Marie Hebert. Two doors away is a 36-year-old Jean Baptist Guidry.^[6]

Our Jean Baptiste's son was born in 1786, so in 1850, he would have been about 64, not 36. Neither our Jean Baptiste Guidry nor his son can have been either man listed on the census in Lafayette.

"Jean Baptiste died on 19 October 1857 in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States." This statement comes from Find a Grave, and they include sources. But their sources show that a different Jean Baptiste Guidry, born on a different date to different parents, died in Lafayette in 1857. See Find A Grave: Memorial #226234376. That one is the JB Guidry in the 1850 Lafayette census. Please do not conflate the two.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Scott, LA: Hulco, 2002) p. 18.
2. ↑ "Louisiana Marriages, 1816-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4ZD-SZQ : 4 December 2014), Jean Guidry and Marie Magdeleine Breaux, 15 Jun 1785; citing reference; FHL microfilm 6,010,598.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900, compact disk #101 ("SWLR CD"), (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; reprints by Claitor's Publications);
   • GUIDRY, Jean of "Mariloine" [Maryland], New England (Jean Baptiste & Agnes DUPUIS) m. 14 June 1785 Marie Magdaleine BRAUT (LSAR: Opel.: 1785-398)
   • BREAUX, Marie Magdeleine of Assumption parish at LaFourche (Firmin & Marguerite BRAU) m. 14 June 1785 Jean GUIDRY (LSAR: Opel.: 1785 - 398)
   • GUIDRY, Jean - "de Maryland en Nouvelle Angleterre" [from Maryland in New England] (min. son of Jean GUEDRY & Magdeleine DUPUIS) m. 15 June 1785 Marie Magdeleine BRAUX, "de la paroisse l'Assomption du fleuve du Mississippi" [from Assumption Parish on the Mississippi River] (min. daughter of Firmin & Marguerite BRAUX) Fr. GEFFROTIN (SM Ch.: v.3, #66)
   • GUIDRY, Jean Baptiste - widower of his last marriage to dec. Marie BRAUD; inhabitant of this parish; native of Maryland (major son of Jean Baptiste & Anne Magdeleine DUPUIS) m. 9 Nov. 1818 Anne SAVOIE - inhabitant of this parish; native of St. James parish on the river; widow from her last marriage to dec. Jean Charles BENOIST (major daughter of Francois & Anne THIBAUDOT) Wits: Joseph SAVOIE, Marcellin MELENSON [MELANCON], Louis DUSOUCHET. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.6, #115)
4. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HSR4-8GPZ : 14 January 2020), Jean Baptiste Guidry in entry for Marcellite Guidry, 1811.
5. ↑ "Louisiana Marriages, 1816-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4Z4-BQP : 14 January 2020), Jean Guidry in entry for Severin Guidry, 1847.
6. ↑ The other JB Guidry: "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJW-FQG : 9 November 2014), Jean Bte Guidry, Lafayette parish, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States; citing family 223, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

   1850 Lafayette parish, Lafayette, Louisiana

   Age 78 --Race White

   Birth Year (Estimated) 1772

   Birthplace Louisiana

   House Number 219

   Jean Bte Guidry SR... M 78 Louisiana --wrong JBG!

   Marie S Hebert F 72 Louisiana

   Joseph Hebert M 5 Louisiana

   Lameck Richards M 21 Louisiana

   Jean Bte. Guidry JR age: 36/ Marie Hernandez age: 36/ 3 kids.....

See also:

• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=davidleleux&id=I073377