Louis Stivin is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 6 Right, Le Bon Papa. Listed with Louis is his wife Marie Babin; two children Louis and Marie; and Francois Babin, his wife's brother.[1]
Birth 3 April 1781 at L'Hermitage (district of Nantes). Christening: 4 Apr 1781 Saint-Martin church, Chantenay, Bretagne (present-day Nantes, Loire-Atlantique), France. Baptism name: Louis André Hiben, son of Louis Guillaume Hiben & Marie Landry. [2][3]
Census: Sep 1784 Nantes, , Loire-Atlantique, France [4]
Immigration: 29 Jul 1785 New Orleans, Orleans, LA [5]
Marriage: Rosalie LOUVIERE 20 Nov 1804 in St. Martinville, St. Martin, LA. [6]
Louis STEVEN b: 26 Dec 1806 in , , LA c: 15 Dec 1808 in St. Gabriel, Iberville, LA
Maximilien STEVEN b: 27 Jan 1810 in Petite Anse, St. Martin, LA c: 23 Jan 1811 in St. Martinville, St. Martin, LA
Sources
↑ Title: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Author: Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; Personal copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; p. 28.
↑ Title: Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785; Author: Gérard-Marc Braud; Publication: Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999; Personal copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard p. 235
Text: Baptized at St-Martin church. Sponsors: Jean LEBLANC (who signed) & Jeanne MOREAU (did not sign).
↑ Archives départementales Loire-Atlantique, Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil, Commune: Chantenay, Paroisse: Saint-Martin, BMSm 1781, Table, Image 19 of 80 (right page, 3rd entry) Louis André Hiben Baptism
↑ Title: Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796; Author: Jacqueline K. Voorhies; Publication: Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973; Personal copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; p. 511
Text: On list of "Acadians in France, September 1784," document in A.D.S. Legajo 2575, which shows the Acadian families who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty.
On list from Nantes:
Louis STEVEN, with wife Marie BABIN, 1 son, 1 daughter, plus Simon BABIN (in the young [unmarried] adult column), and 1 orphan, for a total of 6 in family.
↑ Title: Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index; Author: Rev. Donald Joseph Hebert; Publication: Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995. Source published by Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com; pp. 8-9
Text: Louis STEBENS, age 3, traveling with his father Louis, a sailor age 36, and wife Marie BABIN, plus two other children. There was also the brother of the wife Francois BABIN, a sailor age 16. They constituted the 29th family (of 5 persons) aboard "Le Bon Papa."
↑ Title: Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk #101; Author: Donald J. Hébert; Publication: Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; CD 101; copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard
Text: STEVEN, Louis - of parish of Canterel (major son of dec. Jean - of Ireland & Marie LANDRY) m. 20 Nov. 1804 Rosalie LOUVIERE (minor daughter of Isidore - of False Point & Francoise LANDRY) Wits: Isidore BROUSSARD, Alexandre BROUSSARD. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.5, #27)
Louviere, Rosalie (minor daughter of Isidore - of Fausse Pointe & Francoise LANDRY) m. 20 Nov. 1804 Louis STEVEN - of parish of Canterel (major son of dec. Jean - of Ireland & Marie LANDRY) Wits: Isidore BROUSSARD, Alexandre BROUSSARD. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.5, #27)
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