Barthélemy Louis Daniel (MacTaig) de McCarthy GCL (1706)

Born 1706 in Ireland

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Biography

Research Notes

1. What is the correct name?

Originally this profile was named Charles McCarthy McTaig (1706, Ireland). He appears to have been merged with Barthélémy Charles De Macarty (1716, France). The French one appears to have come with Francoise as wife in 1748.

Then his First Name changed to McCarthy;

Middle Name to Barthélemy Daniel;

Last Name at Birth to MacTaig;

Current Last Name to McCarthy;

Other Last Name(s) to Macarty Mactigue, MacCarthey-MacTaig, Macarty de Macteigne;

Preferred Name to Charles. (1706-1764).

Wikipedia called him "'Barthélemy de Macarty Mactigue'"

Then his Current Last Name became de McCarthy.

Then his First Name went from McCarthy to Barthélemy Louis

Middle Name from Barthélemy Daniel to Daniel

Other Last Name(s) from Macarty, Mactigue, MacCarthey-MacTaig, Macarty de Macteigne to De Macarty, Mactigue, MacCarthey-MacTaig, Macarty de Macteigne

Preferred Name from Charles to Barthélemy Louis

Nickname to Charles

See Comment on right of profile page for additional possibility

The long quotation below is original to the profile.

Barthélemy Louis (MacTaig) de McCarthy GCL was born in Ireland.

Barthélemy Louis Daniel of Macarty Mactigue GCL "Succeeded to the Governorship [of the Illinois Country] on June 11, 1751... until the country passed into the possession on the English in 1763." ^[1]

During the French occupation it was an Irishman who commanded the Illinois country, vested with almost vice-regal power, in the name of King Louis of France. He was known as Chevalier Charles MacCarthy. He was born in Ireland in 1706 and was there known as MacCarthy MacTaig, which means literally, MacCarthy, the son of Taig or Thaddeus. He was an officer in the French army, and in 1731 was sent to Louisiana in charge of a detachment of engineers. On the 20th of August, 1751, MacCarthy sailed from New Orleans with a small military force to take command of and rebuild Fort Chartres. They arrived at Fort Chartres on March 28, 1752, and from that time until 1760 Chevalier MacCarthy was in command of all the French troops in the Illinois country. When, under his direction, Fort Chartres was rebuilt, it was regarded as the best fort in America. In 1757, when it was reported that the English contemplated descending the Tennessee River for the purpose of attacking the French posts on the Mississippi, MacCarthy sent Lieutenant Aubry to construct a fort on the Ohio River, which he named Fort Ascencion as a memorial of the day on which the first stone was laid; but in history it became known as Fort Massac. As a result of the protection afforded by the proximity of Fort Chartres, numerous villages and settlements sprang up on both sides of the Mississippi River. Most of the people were French Catholics, and here the Jesuit Missionaries established churches and schools, and under the administration of the popular Franco-Irish governor, the settlements thrived and the people lived in peace with their Indian neighbors. In 1760 MacCarthy was succeeded in the command of Fort Chartres by Captain de Villiers, and thereafter he continued as the head of the civil and military government of the territory until the Treaty of Paris, in 1763, when France surrendered to England all her territory east of the Mississippi. After the war MacCarthy retired to Point Coupee, in the lower Mississippi Valley, west of the river, which territory still remained in the possession of the French. Here he established himself as a trader and gentleman, and seems also to have been commander of the fort. He died at New Orleans April 20, 1764 and was buried with military honors. In the same year the French Government conferred upon MacCarthy the posthumous honor of the Cross of St. Louis. ^[2]

Marriage

He married Françoise Hélène Pellerin on 14 June 1748.

Children:

1. Jeanne-Louise Françoise De Macarty
2. Jean-Baptiste François De Macarty
3. Barthélemy Louis De Macarty
4. Françoise Catherine Brigitte De Macarty
5. Marie Francoise De Macarty
6. Marie Catherine Adelaide De Macarty
7. Marie-Céleste Eléonore Elisabeth De Macarty
8. Louise Eleonore De Macarty
9. Marie Marthe De Macarty
10. Eugene Theodore De Macarty
11. Nicolas Theodore De Macarty

Grandfather of the now infamous "Madame LaLaurie"

Sources

• Contributors of Wikipedia, "Barthélemy de Macarty Mactigue," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, "Wikipedia: 'Barthélemy de Macarty Mactigue'" (Page accessed October 19, 2017).
• "'Old Families of Louisiana', by Stanley Clisby Arthur and George Campbell Huchet de Kernion; Clearfield; USA; 2009, p. 330."
• RaymondJohnson.com
• "A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals): From 1086 to 1513', by Edmund Curtis; Routeledge; USA & Canada; 1923."
• "Kerry Archaeological Magazine, Volume 1'; Kerry Archaeological Association; October 1908."
• "Ancestry: 'Rootsweb: Wood Family History'"
• Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 1926, Vol. 9, Issue 4, p. 734, 24 Mar 1738.
• https://archive.org/stream/creolefamiliesof00kingrich/creolefamiliesof00kingrich_djvu.txt

1. ↑ "'Memoirs of a French Village Chronicles of Prairie du Rocher, Kaskaskia and the French Triangle', by Dr. Theodire P. Fadler and Susanne M. Fadler; Phoenix Cosmopolitan Publishing; USA; 1972, p. 233."
2. ↑ "Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society: 'The Early Irish of Illinois', by Judge P. McGoorty; Illinois State Historical Society; Phillips Bros.: Illinois, USA; 1900, pp. 54-56."