Vincent Landry (abt. 1726 - 1798)

Born about 1726 in Pisiquit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Husband of Susanne Gaudin — married 13 Oct 1765 in Maryland

Descendants

Died 28 Mar 1798 at about age 72 in Plattenville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, New Spain

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Biography

VINCENT LANDRY is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 4-Right. Listed with him is his wife, Susanne Godin, and their son, Charles Caliste Landry. ^[1]

Vincent Landry was born in 1726 in Pisiquit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia. His parents are unknown, see discussion in Research Notes.

Vincent married Susanne Gaudin (1737 - 1784) on 13 October 1765 in Maryland. The referenced website has an image of their wedding record; however, parents aren't named. Site contributor Greg Wood postulates that Susanna Godin's spouse, Vincent Landry, might have been her step-brother (a child of her mother's first marriage with Joseph Landry). Susanna was living in Oxford in 1763. Finally, Anastasie Landry, who married Amant Babin, was from Oxford, and, most probably Amant as well,^[2][3]

Their known children were:^[4]

1. Charles Caliste Landry (bef.1766-)
2. Marie Felicite (Landry) Bourg (1768 - 1815)
3. Grégoire Landry (1775 - 1849)
4. Anna Victoria (Landry) Aucoin (1781 - )

The April 15, 1777 census of the Ascension Parish settlers established above Bayou Lafourche indicates that he was the fifty year old head of a household that included the following persons: Suzanne Godin (Gadon), his wife, 40 years old; Caliste Landry, his son, 10 years old; Grégoire Landry, his son, 4 year old; Félicité Landry, his daughter, 7 years old; Magdeleine Landry, his daughter, 6 years old; Marie Magdeleine Landry, his daughter, 4 years old; Marie Landry, his daughter, 3 years old; Marguerite Landry, his daughter, 2 years old; and Mrs. Siraxe [Sierre?], his sister-in-law [his wife's sister Marguerite who married Augustin Sierra?). The census indicates that Vincent Landry was the choir director for the local church. Vincent Landry and his family owned a tract of land with three arpents frontage on the Mississippi River. They also owned fourteen cows, one horse, ten hogs, and one musket.^{[citation needed]}

On January 9, 1792, property of Vincent Landry and Susanne (Suzanne) Godin (Gaudin) was liquidated at an auction held at the front door of the parish church. Among the items sold was a tract of land with three arpents frontage on the right bank of the Mississippi River. This property was located between the lands of Joseph Melanson (Melançon) and Joseph Babin. Improvements on the property included a house of sur sol [dirt floor]construction measuring twenty by sixteen feet. The house had a front gallery and bousillage walls. Joseph Babin purchased the property for 490 piastres. ^[5]

Vincent died on 28 March 1798 in Plattenville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, New Spain aged about 69.^[6]

Research Notes

Possible Parents

• First, Bona Arsenault believed his parents were probably Pierre Landry and Marie Anne Doucet.^[7] His memorial on Find a Grave lists these parents but it is unsourced.^[8]

• Second, others believe he was the son of Alexandre Landry (abt.1695-bef.1763) and Marie Marguerite Blanchard (abt.1707-aft.1763)^{[9][7] [10]}

• Lastly (for now), another researcher Gregory Wood puts forth the idea that he was the son of Joseph Landry (abt.1701-abt.1765) and Marie Josephe Bourg (1711-1792). This would mean that Susanne Godin married her step-brother, not that unusual given the very difficult times.^[11][12]

• It should be noted that the Wall of Names Committee does not assign parents on their website profile for Vincent Landry.

• In searching for Vincent's parents, baptisms for his children did not find any that mentioned their grandparents.

• Fom email from Karen Theriot Reader to Jackie Girouard re parents:

Jackie As you say, Bona Arsenault claims Vincent's parents were Pierre LANDRY & Anne-Marie DOUCET.
Don Landry on ACADIAN-CAJUN-L[ist] claimed he was son of Alexandre LANDRY & Marguerite BLANCHARD.
Gregory A. Wood in his A Guide to the Acadians in Maryland stated he was son of Joseph LANDRY & Marie Josephe BOURG, who thus would have married his step-sister Susanne GODIN.
Vincent filts neatly in to family of Pierre, if born about 1727-1728.
Vincent also fits neatly into the family of Alexandre, if he was born about 1728.
The parents Wood posits are extemely unlikely, since they only married in 1745.
For now, I will leave the parents blank.

• Parents removed due to lack of sources or even good theory about them.(Bourque-573 23:46, 4 April 2024 (UTC))

The entry in the Wall of Names database says the probate of their estate was administered on Jan 9, 1792. The same WON record says he was buried March 28, 1798. Quite a difference in dates between probate and burial.(Bourque-573 16:09, 24 December 2022 (UTC))

Note that according to Louisiana inheritance law, if his wife died in 1784 and they had children who came of age before their father's death, they could have opened a succession in 1792 to receive what they inherited from her (their share of her separate property, which could require the partition of some of the community property). Ward-9858 20:20, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds., (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 20.
2. ↑ See https://acadianswerehere.org/tuckahoe-mission.html The above page from Father Mosley's journal has four weddings from late-1765 and early-1766: Vincent Landry and Susanna Godin, Joseph Hebbert (Hébert) and Anne Mary Landry, Amant Babin and Anastasia Landry, Joseph Goudrau and Ann Tibodot. The last wedding was witnessed by "All ye French of New-Town, Kent Co." Newtown is known today as Chestertown, which is second only to Annapolis in surviving 18th century structures.
3. ↑ Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; pp. 147-148.
   

   Susanne GODIN, daughter of Pierre GODIN & Marie Josephe BOURG [in her 1st marriage], married on 13 Oct 1765 by Father Joseph MOSLEY to Vincent LANDRY, son of Joseph & Marie Josephe BOURG [this would be her own mother! in her 2nd marriage?] Did she marry her step-brother who was about 10 years older than she?] In 1767 she was in New Orleans in July with Vincent & [son] Charles Caliste (PPC Legajo 114). Daughter Marie Félicité was baptized at New Orleans on 21 May 1769 (born 21 Dec 1768) (Reference: SLC, B6, 50). On the 1769 census at Cabanocey, LA she is 32 years old, Vincent is 42, with 3 arpents of land. Household includes son Charles Caliste (3), daughter Fe'licite' (9 months), and Brigitte TRAHAN (12, an orphan)

4. ↑ Carl Brasseaux, "Acadian Exiles in Louisiana Wall of Names," Acadian Database, Search Results. Acadian Memorial Foundation. Accessed July 20, 2020. Wall of Names for Vincent Landry.
5. ↑ Marchand, An Attempt to Re-Assemble the Old Settlers in Family Groups, p. 67
6. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Vol. 2, 1770-1803 (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of BR, Kindle edition) p. 671;

   Vicente, age 74 years, widower of Susana Gaudon bur. 28 Mar 1798 (ASM-3, 15)

7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Karen Theriot Reader Vincent, citing:
   • Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775, (Quebec: Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965) p. 2525; (Louisiana)

   Born in 1727, "probably" son of Pierre & Anne-Marie DOUCET from Pisiguit. Vincent married around 1756[sic] to Suzanne GODIN, born in 1737 (no parents listed). Five children. In 1769 Vincent occupied lot number 82 on the west bank of the Mississippi at Saint James. An orphan Brigitte TRAHN, born in 1757, lived in his household. Vincent was at L'Ascension in 1772.

8. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/262357189/vincent-landry: accessed April 2, 2024), memorial page for Vincent Landry (1726–28 Mar 1798), Find a Grave Memorial ID 262357189, citing Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cemetery, Plattenville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by AW (contributor 47829810).
9. ↑ E-mail posting to newsgroup #340

   Vincent, son of Alexandre LANDRY & Marguerite BLANCHARD, born around 1727, married at St. Joseph de Tuckahoe on 13 Oct 1765 to Susanne GODIN, daughter of Pierre-Joseph & Marie Joseph BPOUR [rect, BOURG]. (Reference: Register).

10. ↑ Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde; https://mwlandry.ca/genealog/getperson.php?personID=I1495&tree=05
11. ↑ See https://acadianswerehere.org/tuckahoe-mission.html The above page from Father Mosley's journal has four weddings from late-1765 and early-1766: Vincent Landry and Susanna Godin, Joseph Hebbert (Hébert) and Anne Mary Landry, Amant Babin and Anastasia Landry, Joseph Goudrau and Ann Tibodot. The last wedding was witnessed by "All ye French of New-Town, Kent Co." Newtown is known today as Chestertown, which is second only to Annapolis in surviving 18th century structures. No parents are given.
12. ↑ Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; pp. 147-148.
    

    Susanne GODIN, daughter of Pierre GODIN & Marie Josephe BOURG [in her 1st marriage], married on 13 Oct 1765 by Father Joseph MOSLEY to Vincent LANDRY, son of Joseph & Marie Josephe BOURG [sic, this would be her own mother! in her 2nd marriage?] Did she marry her step-brother?] In 1767 she was in New Orleans in July with Vincent & [son] Charles Caliste (PPC Legajo 114). Daughter Marie Félicité was baptized at New Orleans on 21 May 1769 (born 21 Dec 1768) (Reference: SLC, B6, 50). On the 1769 census at Cabanocey, LA she is 32 years old, Vincent is 42, with 3 arpents of land. Household includes son Charles Caliste (3), daughter Fe'licite' (9 months), and Brigitte TRAHAN (12, an orphan)

See also:

• Family Data Collection - Births
• Family Data Collection - Individual Records
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
• also see: LDS family tree - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZNK-DFZ