Patureau – A Butcher, a Baker, a Beau Chapeau Maker

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Joseph Landry, Jr. with Mrs. Robert Joseph Landry, Sr., informally known as Bob, Betty, and Erie Landry, other wise known as Daddy, Mama, and Mee Maw. This was taken in May of 1971 at my oldest sister Jodie’s high school graduation.

I’ve found some really interesting documents online this week.  I’m sure Daddy and Mee Maw would have been excited to see these old documents as well.  Mee Maw (Germaine Erie Patureau Landry shown here with my mom and dad Betty Lou Bucklin and Robert Joseph Landry, Jr.) started researching the Patureau and Landry family lines back in the 1950s.  Daddy probably got interested around the time of this photo, which was in 1971.  He continued with the research for at least another forty years.

This week’s finds started out when I got a notice about someone adding some additional information to the profile for Leobon Patureau on WIKItree.

You can see the link to Leobon Patureau on the top of this section of the tree of my grandmother. Piere F. Patureau and his wife and children were the ones who immigrated to the US in 1840.

That is a site that has one world tree that everyone tries to connect to.  It is public and anybody can add to the profiles once you become a member.  The first notice I saw was for a passenger list for Piere Patureau in 1857 on a ship traveling from France to New Orleans.  I have a copy of his passport dated 1856, but didn’t know if he had done any traveling.

Evidently he traveled to France.  And on that passport it lists him as a boulanger.  That is the French word for baker.  I had read somewhere else that he was a butcher, but I’m thinking the baker is more likely since both the passport and passenger list indicate that.

Then original French resources were added for Leobon Patureau, who just happens to be my great, great, great, great grandfather.  I now know that he was born Aug. 1, 1768, in Palluaud, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France, and he died on Feb. 3, 1851 in LaRoche-Chalais, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France.

Baptism record for Leobon Patureau in 1768 in Palluaud, France.

I didn’t recognize the name of the person adding the information, so I sent him a note of thanks and inquired if we were related.  We’re not related, but he lives in France and he likes to do research.  And research he did!  As you can see from this copy of a document, it is not easy to read, especially if you do not understand French.  I could barely find the name leobon patureau on this page when I was referred to it, and I knew it had to be on that page!  How would you find something like this if you didn’t know when or where he was born in France?  I will definitely be sending another note of thanks to him.

If you haven’t noticed yet, the document also gives the names of Leobon’s parents, which I didn’t have.  They are listed as Antoine Patureau (a surgeon) and Marie Sicaud.  That would make them my 5x great grandparents.  They lived in the mid 1700s in Palluaud, France.

Anne Machet’s birth record from 1801 in Mareuil, France.

It didn’t stop with all of that.  Piere Patureau was married to Anne Rose Machet.  Anne was born in 1801, which is documented in this photo from French archives for births.  We already knew her parents’ names, which were Louis Machet and Louise Roux.  But I don’t remember ever seeing his occupation.  He was a chapelier!  In English we would call him a hatter.  Maybe he made his precious little Anne a beautiful hat (or as he would say, a beau chapeau) for special occasions.

Louis Machet married Louise Roux on Nov. 6, 1793 in Mareuil, France.

We just keep going back further in time!  We can thank our anonymous French researcher for that.  I really like the look of this document.  It is the marriage record for Anne’s parents Louis and Louise.  This one is dated Nov. 6, 1793, and it took place in Mareuil, France.  It lists the parents of Louis as Antoine Machet deslauriers and Anne Chavalarias.  Daddy already had these names from his research, which is amazing to me.  He did a lot of great research that I am grateful for.

One of the interesting things that I learned from this record is that not only was Louis a hatter, but his pater was a hatter.  (Oops, shouldn’t mix Latin with French!)  I’m sure there are other interesting things, but I’ve just started looking at them and haven’t been able to figure out what some of the words are supposed to be or what they would mean.

So if you are able to figure anything out from any of these documents, let me know.  Leave me a comment or send me a note.  I’ll be glad to discuss it.  As you can probably tell by now, I find it all very interesting.

Further French facts