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Louise Benedicte (Le Fel) Larteau (abt. 1702 - 1728)

Louise Benedicte Larteau formerly Le Fel
Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 28 Apr 1721 in Biloxi, Louisiana, New Francemap
[children unknown]
Died at about age 26 [location unknown]
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Biography

Louise Benedicte Le Fel volunteered for voyage to Biloxi, Louisiana, New France colony arriving on January 8th, 1721 with up to 88 women aboard the French flute la Baleine. Her birth year of 1702 is calculated from the passenger list created in 1720 when she was 18. [1][2]

Louise Benedicte Le Fel, daughter of Mathieu Le Fel & Marie La Porte, married Pierre Sebastien Larteau, native of La Rochelle, France, son of Pierre Larteau & Catherine Roy, on 28 Apr 1721 at Old Biloxi. Pierre was killed at Natchez during the massacre of 29 Nov 1729.[3][4]

Sources

  1. National Genealogical Society Quarterly 75 (December 1987): 303-5. "Bruce Ardoin, The Baleine Brides: A Missing Ship's Roll for Louisiana, 1721,"
  2. "The Baleine Brides: Photocopy of 88 Named Girls" (January 2017): "Randall Ladnier obtained from the French Archive "
  3. Archdiocese of New Orleans Archives, Orleans Parish, LA, USA; Marriage register, St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Marriage 1720-1730, in French; record #50, Pierre Sebastien Larteau and Louise Benedicte Le Fel
  4. Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans edited by Reverend Monsignor Earl C. Woods (Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987) Sacramental Records Volume 1, 1718-1750; p. 153 & 161.

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