Anselme Landry (1741 - 1810)

Born 19 Oct 1741 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Agathe Barrieau — married 12 Feb 1765 in Pleudihen, Cotes d'Armor, France

Descendants

Died 29 Oct 1810 at age 69 in Lafourche, Orleans Territory, USA

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Biography

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Anselme Landry is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Plaque 6 Right, having arrived in Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa. Listed with him is his wife Agathe Bariau.^[1]

Anselme Landry, son of Jean Baptiste (dit Jane) Landry and Magdeleine Melanson, was born on 19 October 1741, and baptized on 1 November, at St.-Charles-aux-Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadie.^[2][3][4]

Anselme arrived at St. Malo from Boulogne in 1763; he resided at Pleudihen from 1763 to 1772. Anselme Landry and Agathe Barrieau were married 12 February 1765 in Pleudihen, Cotes d'Armor, France. ^[5][6][7]

Still seeking a home almost 30 years after the Acadian expulsion from their homeland, he was counted on the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty," dated September 1784 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France.^[8]

Ten months later he and his wife arrived at the port of New Orleans aboard le Bon Papa, on 29 July 1785.^[9][10]

Anselme Landry died in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana on 29 October 1810.^[11]

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. 27
2. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records: The Registers of St Charles Aux Mines in Acadia 1707-1748, volume 1a, revised (Diocese of Baton Rouge Archives: Baton Rouge, La., 1999), p.106.

   Text: Anselme Landry (Jean Landry and Magdeleine Melanson) bn. 6 Oct. 1741, bt. 1 Nov. 1741 spo. Jean Landry (s) and Marie Landry (SGA-3, 11b).

3. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) - 1869; Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869 (Image 440), baptism record for Anselme Landry. Note: This extract wrote the mother's name as "Marguerite" instead of "Magdeleine;" the original register had "Magdeleine" according to the DOBR's extract.
4. ↑ "Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5L-Y2N : 10 February 2018), Anselme Landry, 19 Oct 1741; citing FHL microfilm 484,099. Note: This is another copy of the same extract and therefore also names the mother incorrectly.
5. ↑ Gérard-Marc Braud, Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785 (Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999) p. 165
6. ↑ Audrey B. Westerman, First Landowners and 1810 Annotated Census of Lafourche Interior Parish, Louisiana 1785-1810 (Houma, LA: Terrebonne Genealogical Society, 1995) No. 433

   Samuel (Anselme) LANDRY, son of Jean & Madeleine MELANCON, born 19 Oct 1741 at Grand Pre. Married on 12 Feb 1765 at Pleudihen, France to Agathe BARILLOT, daughter of Pierre & Veronique GIROIR, widow of Isidore DAIGLE. They were together on the 1810 census of Lafourche Parish, LA; land is listed. The old couple lived next door to [grandson] Charles Romain BOUDREAUX, son of Marie Olive LANDRY. Anselme's succession was dated 29 Oct 1810 at Thibodeaux, Lafourche, LA.

7. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, The Acadian Exiles in St.-Malo 1758-1785, pt 1, vol. II (Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981) p. 522, family #587

   Anselme LANDRY, born about 1743 [sic], son of Jean & Madeleine MELANSON. Anselme arrived at St. Malo from Boulogne in 1763; he resided at Pleudihen from 1763 to 1772. He married on 12 Feb 1765 at Pleudihen, France to Agathe BARILLOT, widow of Isidore DAIGLE; three children listed.

8. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796 (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 495 (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575).

   On list from NANTES:

   Anselme LANDRY, with wife Agathe BARILLOT, for a total of 2 in family.

9. ↑ Rev. Donald Joseph Hebert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) pp. 6-7

   Text: Anselme LANDRY, age 50, a sailor, traveling with wife Agathe BARRILLOT, age 50 as the 21st family (of 2 persons) aboard "Le Bon Papa."

10. ↑ Tim Hebert, "The 7 Ships Passenger Lists" (Note: also has scans of actual ship manifests) online at Acadian-Cajun Genealogy & History Website, Seven Spanish Ships
11. ↑ Rev. Donald Joseph Hebert, South Louisiana Records, vol. 1, 1794-1840 (Rayne, LA: Hebert Publications, 1978) p. 336

    Text: Anselm Landry d. 29 Oct 1810, Inventory same date (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: Year 1810).

Acknowledgements

Karen Theriot Reader

Jacqueline Girouard