Charles Parent (1738 - 1804)

Born 22 Jan 1738 in Mobile, La Louisiane, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Jeanne Rochon — married 7 Apr 1772 in Mobile

Descendants

Died 1804 at about age 65 in Orleans Territory, États-Unis d'Amérique

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Biography

Charles Parent has French origins.

Charles Parent, son of Francois Parent and Marianne Arlu, was born in 1738 at Mobile.

He ended military service in the French Army circa 1770 at Saint Louis.^[1]

He married Jeanne Rochon on April 7, 1772 in the absence of a priest, so it was not recorded until June 23, 1773.^[2]

Children of Charles and Jeanne:

1. Charles Parent (1790) m. Rosala^[1][3]
2. Francoise Aimee Parent (1798) m. Andre Bienvenu Roman son of Jacques Roman.^[1][3]

He took an oath of loyalty to the Spanish King, Carlos III (Bourbon) di Espana "Charles III" on 22 March 1780 at Mobile, New Spain.^[4] He settled on a large grant of land just to the north of present day Madisonville, Saint Tammany Parish in 1785. He was Commandant of the District of Chifoncte in 1788 at St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. ^[1]

Charles died in 1804 in Louisiana.^[1][3]

Research Notes:

Note: Surname variants include: Parent,^[5] Parant.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Frederick S. Ellis, St. Tammany Parish L'Autre Cote du Lac (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1981) pp.63, 85.
2. ↑ Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine, Love's Legacy: The Mobile Marriages Recorded in French, Transcribed, with Annotated Abstracts in English, 1724-1786, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana,1985) p. 363

   Mob. mb I:51a-2

   June 23, 1773
   Certification of marriage celebrated by Mr. Gourdon,¹ minister, April 7, 1772.
   Charles Parent²
   Jeanne Rochon³
   Witnesses signing:⁴ Rochon, impossible to identify without the signature itself; (Joseph) Badon; (Joseph) Chastang, l'aine; (Francois Louis Masurier.
   1. One Gordon was chaplain of the 21st (British) Regiment at Mobile. MPA, English Dominion, I, 515. Perhaps he was the Reverend William Gordon, widower with four children at Mobile in 1780. Hamilton, Colonial Mobile, 313n.
   2. Apparently the son of Francois Parant and Marie Anne Arlut who was baptized January 22, 1738. He was sixty-three years old in July 1800. Mob. bb I:121; ASP I:665.
   3. Possibly the daughter of Jean Rochon and Marie Joseph Milon, who was baptized October 7, 1756. Mob. bb I:194.
   4. These are not signatures: the names were written by the priest to show signatures that appeared either on the 1772 record or on a different original record of this 1773 certification.
   p. 361 note text:
   Father Ferdinand had left Mobile in August, 1770 and did not return until June, 1773. In the absence of a priest, the marital union could have taken place by mutual consent before their family and friends or before a Protestant minister.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} St. Tammany Historical Society Gazette - Madisonville Issue, Vol. 4, March 1980.
4. ↑ Albert Tate, Jr. "The French in Mobile, British West Florida, 1763-1780" published in The Orleans Genesis, Vol. XXII, July 1983, No. 37.
5. ↑ Genealogy Trails
6. ↑ Winston DeVille, "Gulf Coast Colonials" (Baltimore, MD: Clearfield, 2007)

• Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Mobile, Volume 1, Section 1, 1704-1739,page 333

Describe The Record (Notes) 823.CHARLES PARENT On 22 January 1738, I a a Capuchin Priest, was born a boy of Francois Parent, resident of Mobile and Marianne Arlu, his parents. He was baptized on 23 January because the Godfather and Godmother were absent. On the 9 February the said child was brought to the church, that is, to Fathr Felix, Cure of Mobile and given the name of Charles and he gave the ordinary ceremonies of Baptism godparents were Charles Laverne and marie Carrier, who signed with me on the day and year above. (Lavergne spelled two ways on the original) Lavrgne Carrier D. Batz Mare Father Felix, Cure