Sister Ignatius Morel Source Study

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: St Domingue
Surnames/tags: Morel_de_Guiramond D'Aquin Rossignol

The purpose of this free space project is a collaboration area for cousins working on building Ancestry of Morel de Guiramond from St Dominque along with associated families - D'Aquin, Rossignol, Tranchant De Laverne and others. The starting focus is to build profiles and find the sources that correlate to material provides by Sister Ignatius Morel in 1982.

Will you join us? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!

Contents 1 Background 2 Project Parameters and Goals 2.1 January 2024 Goal 3 Morel de Guiramond One Name Study 4 The Letter 5 The Data 6 Pages that link to this source

Background

Sister Ignatius (aka Lelia Marie Morel de Guiramond) was born on June 20, 1898. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Bourg, France on July 13th, 1918 at 2116 Ursaline Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her Holy Habit and was renamed Sister Mary Ignatius on May 7, 1919.

Three Morel de Guiramond Sisters

In 1982, she responded to a request for family history information by Claudette Morel, the 23-year-old daughter of Sylvia David Morel. She included a handwritten letter and typed information with data from research she and her siblings had done. (See attached PDF file for orginal scan and transcribed letter)

Project Parameters and Goals

This faded, reproduced work as formed much of what many in the family know about the the Morel de Guiramond, D'Aquin and other family alliances.

Over the last few years, Kathy Shipley has been working to review the material from Sister Ignatus and re-locate source material to prove of improve this family history.

Working with Todd Boyum and other Wikitree Genealogist, the project will:

1. Create profiles for the family provided by Sister Ignatus on WikiTree
2. Source these profiles - Genealogy Defined
3. Provide as much biographical and historical data as possible
4. Add DNA Confirmation where possible
5. Add family collecition images, and records as possible
6. Create a place for Kathy, Todd and other genealogist and interested parties to collaborate.
7. Create a repository for resources related to St Domingue, Jamaica, Cuba, St. Kitts and other Carribean / French Colonial Ancestry and there migration to and early life in Louisiana
8. Document other mysteries to be solved
9. Adding Morel de Guiramond family to the Morel de Guiramond One Name Study

This page will be a hub for the project and a source on each profile created from the project.Ond

January 2024 Goal

In January, we will instantiate the project, clarify goals and communication, and create any missing profiles. We'll attempt to do some sourcing for each as well. We will tie out any findings - corrections, etc. to the material from Sister Ignatius.

Morel de Guiramond One Name Study

As part of this effort, we are creating a One Name Study page for Morel de Guiramond:

Add [[Category:Morel de Guiramond Name Study]] to profiles with the name and include the {{One Name Study|name=Morel de Guiramond}} in the BIOGRAPHY section

• Visit the Category:Morel_de_Guiramond_Name_Study page to see included profiles.
• Visit the Space:Morel_de_Guiramond_Name_Study to get involved in the study.

The Letter

New Orleans, LA March 7, 1982

Dear Claudette,

The enclosed papers are what we got from St. Domingue and at Kingston, Jamaica. These are all I have because being a religious I don’t want to keep my family history and have no need of them so I gave all I had to my brothers and sisters. Besides I think this is all you need of your past history of the Morel de Guiramond family. Keep in mind that you are descended from Francois Marie Tranchant Comte’ de la Vergne.

We have been working many years on our Family Tree. Relatives from Ohio?, New Orleans, etc.? wrote to France, St. Domingue, Jamaica, etc.. We visited many places in and around New Orleans. We got a good many articles from New Orleans. Thank God it’s all over as it was hard work.

We know that Grand-pa Morel de Guiramond married twice, not three times. His first wife was Felicie Anais Cunningham. It was from the above grand-parents the me and my siblings originated. They had seven children.

His second wife was Marie Althee D’Aquin and it is from latter grandparents that you originated.

My parents and syblings(sp) were very close to Grand-pa Morel as my two oldest brothers stayed with him while they went to Soule’ College. Besides being a traveling salesman he came home often.

We were also very close to Uncle George as he too was a traveling salesman and came to New Roads often. Sometimes he would bring us little gifts. To my sister, Nita, he gave her a beautiful golden chain & cross. She wore it many years. In the forties (I think) he came to New Roads with a Grand-son. We were all so happy to see them. My brother Felix, my two sisters Nita and Rosella & I visited him at Lake Charles at least twice. That was really a happy reunion.

My sister, Nita, who will be 90 in July, remembers a lot about our Family of the past. She use to ask my father many questions about his mother, Felicie Anais Cunningham, who died at 38. Her baby, Marie, was only 20 days old; she caught a cold, pneumonia followed and this was the end. She is buried in her step-father’s General LaCoste’s tomb in St. Louis Cemetery on North Claiborne Ave., New Orleans. We visited the grave but it is very old and not well kept as her near relatives are all dead.

Grand-pa Morel married two years later to Marie Althee D’Aquin in 1871. They too had seven children.

About three years ago Emerson Morel, Edna D’Aquiin, Bertha & I went to Reserve to find out more about Grand-pa Morel. We were told that he was buried in Edgard, LA, but we could not find the tomb where he was buried, as the pastor of the Church was not at home. But we went to the home of Mr. Perret, that is the baby who sat on Grand-ma Althee’s lap when the picture was taken, that is the one you sent me. It was interesting to meet them and we talked much about our family.

My grand-father’s parents were Charles Aym’e (spelt also Aim’ee) Clairfayt Morel de Guiramond and Josephine DuPaty. (found on the second page I sent.)

God love you, I am, Loveingly,

Sr. Ignatius Morel

The Data

Original	Edits & Sources
Uncorrected - as the Sister typed it	Edits and Sources from project team
Notes precise in the Public Register at "Saint Domingue" and at Kingston, Jamaica on the family of "Count Francois Marie de la Vergne" originally of Vesoul in Franche County	Coming Soon
Claude Rossignal Death: January 18, 1752 Spouse: Marie Ann Dupre Marriage: November 24, 1733 Death: August 3, 1745	Coming soon
Child of Claude Rossignal and Marie Ann Dupre Catherine Rossignal Birth: December 24, 1738 Death: June 16, 1781 Spouse: Francois Marie Tranchant Count de la Vergne Marriage: January 3, 1751 Death: November 26, 1776	Marriage Record
Children of Catherine Rossignal Countess de la Vergne and Count de la Vergne Arteman Charlotte Ferdinand de la Vergne Charles Francois Joseph de la Vergne Francois Marie Eymé de la Vergne Louise Eulalie de la Vergne *Marie Louise de la Vergne Etienne Francois de la Vergne	Coming Soon
Fifth Child of Catherine Rossignal and Count de la Vergne Marie Louise de la Vergne Death: October 8, 1821 Spouse: Jean Pierre Morel de Guiramond (Lawyer to Parliament of Paris) Marriage: September 8, 1759 Married in Bordeaux, France	Coming soon
Children of Marie Louise de la Vergne and Jean Pierre Morel de Guiramond *Charles Aymé Clairfayt Morel de Guiramond Eulalie William Morel de Guiramond Jules Charles Morel de Guiramond Jean Celestine Theodore Morel de Guiramond	Coming Soon
First Child of Marie Louise de la Vergne and Jean Pierre Morel de Guiramond Charles Aymé Clairfayt Morel de Guiramond Birth: February 3, 1797 Spouse: Josephine Dupaty Birth: December 6, 1823	Coming Soon
Children of Charles Aymé Clairfayt Morel de Guiramond and Josephine Dupaty Diorie Morel de Guiramond - Birth: August 1, 1825 *William Jean Marie Morel de Guiramond - Birth: April 2, 1826 (Born in New Orleans) Eulalie William Morel de Guiramond - Birth 1827	Coming Soon
Second Child of Charles Aymé Clairfayt Morel de Guiramond and Josephine Dupaty William Jean Marie Morel de Guiramond Birth: April 2, 1826 Death: December 9, 1907 Spouse: Felicie Anais Cunningham Birth:· Ireland 1831 Marriage: April 23, 1849 Died: December 9, 1869	Coming Soon
Felicie Anais Cunningham Birth:· Ireland 1831 Marriage: April 23, 1849 Died: December 9, 1869 Spouse: William Morel I de Guiramond Birth: April 6, 1826 Death: December 9, 1907	William Morel I de Guiramond sourced
To this Union Seven Children Were Born 1. Josephine Morel de Guiramond Birth: February 23, 1852 Spouse: Charles D'Aquin Death: ____________	Coming Soon
2. Clairfayt Morel de Guiramond Birth: February 24, 1852 Marriage: 1875 (in New Orleans) Death: Spouse: Julie Pourceau Birth: February 10, 1855 Death: April 11, 1936	Coming Soon
3. Anais Morel de Guiramond Birth: August 18, 1854 Marriage: 1870 Spouse: Matt Marr Death: 1928	Coming Soon
4. Wiiliam Edward Morel de Guiramond Birth: November 10, 1856 Marriage: July 13, 1878 Death: December 25, 1926 Spouse: Rosella E. Pourciau Birth: October 9, 1856 Death: April 22, 1935	Coming Soon
5. Louis Jules Morel de Guiramond Birth: November 28, 1858 Marriage: Spouse: Harriet Bullin Birth: November 23, 1857 Death: September 11, 1932	Coming Soon
6. George Morel de Guiramond Birth: 5, 1866 Death: July 4, 1866 Unmarried	Coming Soon
7. Marie Morel de Guiramond Birth: November 18, 1869 Death: 1963 Spouse: Louis P. Delcroix Birth: 1868 Death: 1927	Coming Soon
Second Marriage of William Morel I de Guiramond and Marie Althee D'Aquin William Morel I de Guiramond William Jean Marie Morel de Guiramond Birth: April 2, 1826 Death: December 9, 1907 Marriage: February 17, 1871 Spouse: Marie Althee D'Aquin Birth:· 1827 Death: May 21, 1912	Coming Soon
To This Union Were Seven Children 1. Marie Althee Morel de Guiramond Birth: December 17, 1871	Coming Soon
2. Louis George Morel de Guiramond Birth: March 11, 1873	Coming Soon
3. Louis Albert Morel de Guiramond Birth: February 12, 1875	Coming Soon
4. Marie Julia Morel de Guiramond Birth: April 3, 1878	Coming Soon
5. Joseph Edwin Morel de Guiramond Birth: 3, 1878 Death: August 9, 1878	Coming Soon
6. Marie Lucie Morel de Guiramond Birth: January 24, 1880 Death: June 19, 1892	Coming Soon
7. Marie Lucie Morel de Guiramond Still birth July 29, 1892	Coming Soon

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Three Morel de Guiramond Sisters

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