Marie Catherine (Schexnayder) Villard (abt. 1741 - 1815)

Born about 1741 in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, New France

Ancestors

Died Jun 1815 at about age 74 in St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Catherine Schexnayder was baptized on 21 September 1741, as recorded in the registers at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, New France.^[1]

She probably married Jacques Villard by around 1760.^[2] They had these known children:^[3]

1. Madelaine Villard, b. about 1761^[4]
2. Perine Villard, b. 8 Jul 1773^[5]
3. Jacques Villard, b. 11 Dec 1778^[6]

She died in June 1815 in St. James Parish.^{[citation needed]}

Sources

1. ↑ Sacramental records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans ("SRNO") (New Orleans, LA: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987-2004), vol. 1, p. 238;

   SECHCHNEDIER [@SCHSCHNEIDER, SECHNEIDER, SECKSCHNEIDER, ZECKSCHNIDER], Catherinne (Albert and Marie Madeleine WICHENER), b. Sept. 21, 1741, s. Johannes EIDELMAIRE and Catherine VEULFEN (SCB, B1, 12)

2. ↑ Marriage date is a rough estimate, based on assuming that she could have married at about age 19; if daughter Madelaine was born the following year, then she would have been about age 18 when she married in 1779.
3. ↑ There are large gaps between known children, so there could have been others.
4. ↑ SRNO, vol. 3, p. 298;

   VILLARS [@VILLARD DUBREUIL, VILLARS DUBREUIL, VILLARS DUBREUILL, VILLARS DOVREUIL], Madelaine (Jacque and Catherine SECSCHNEYDER), of this parish, m. Andre PORTIE, Oct. 18, 1779 (SJBED, M1, 12)

5. ↑ SRNO, vol. 3, p. 297;

   VILLARD Perine (Jaque and Catherine Seckschneider), b. Jul. [o-cir. 15], 1773, bn. Jul. 8, [1773], s. Jaque Troxler and Perine Champagne (SJBED, B1, 8)

6. ↑ SRNO, vol. 3, p. 297;

   VILLARD Jacques (Jacques and Caterinne Sexchenaider), b. Dec. 26 1778, bn. Dec. 11, 1778, s. Andre Himelle and Agnes Vebre (SJBED, B1, 41)

• Glenn R. Conrad, Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. John the Baptist Parish, with Genealogy and Index, 1753-1803 (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1972), pp. 34, 37; in 1767 she received an inheritance of 501 piastres from the estates of both parents