Hebert and Breaux Connections
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while now. I wrote a post about my five connections to my great great great grandfather Joseph Ignace (Ignatius) Landry back in March of 2019. In that post I showed a chart that demonstrated the five lines between my dad Robert Joseph “Bob” Landry and his great great grandfather. I’m using the same chart this time, but I’ve added a few things to show how the Breau/Breaux/Braud and Hebert family lines come into the mix. I’ve also fixed the spelling of the name of Narcisse Landry. There are only 2 esses in his name, not 3. How did that get past everyone for so long. At least it has been remedied, and we can now move on.
Let’s start at the top with Ignace Landry. Ever since I started studying French, I’ve taken to spelling his name with the French way of spelling it – Ignace. If you see it spelled Joseph Ignatius, know that I’m talking about the same person. The name is spelled both ways in the various records. He was born in Pisiquit, Acadie, around 1753. His family was Exiled to Maryland in 1755, where they spent twelve long years in Upper Marlboro. The Acadians began to find places in Louisiana that welcomed them. The Landry family made it to New Orleans in July of 1767 and settled in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.
Another family that made it to St. Gabriel was the family of Scholastique Breaux. She was also born in Acadie, but her family spent their years of Exile in Port Tobacco, Maryland. Her parents were Antoine Breaux and Marguerite Landry. The fact that her mother was a Landry did not deter her from marrying Joseph Ignace Landry in 1776. They had five children together, but the one that we’re concerned with is their son Joseph Emmanuel Landry who was born in 1781. Manuel is the oldest of Joseph Ignace’s sons that I descend from.
Ignace and Scholastique probably would have had more children, but she died in 1785. She could possibly have died in childbirth. Her last recorded child was known to be in 1783, so the standard practice was to have another child after two years. Whatever the cause of her death, she left Ignace a widowed father with five children in November of 1785.
Another event happening in 1785 was the influx of another group of Acadians to Louisiana. These families had spent thirty years in Exile with most of their time in France. Seven separate ships made their way from France to Louisiana. One of those ships was the Bergere and we are looking at one family in particular. That was the family of Honore Braud and Elizabeth LeBlanc. They were both born in Acadie, but they were married in France during their Exile. All of their children were born in France, except for their last one. The youngest daughter was born aboard the Bergere as it made its way to Louisiana. What an exciting time for our ancestors!
But the daughter we are concerned with is Olive Elizabeth who was born in 1769. The family also settled in St. Gabriel. I wonder if she knew her second cousin Scholastique. She might have connected or reconnected with her before she died. They arrived in Louisiana a few months before Scholastique’s death. We’ll never know whether that happened. We do know that two years later Olive Elizabeth married Scholastique’s widowed husband Ignace. When they were married in 1787, he was 34 and she was 18. We’re not gonna say anything about that, because they were also related to each other through the Landry and Babin family lines.
Ignace and Olive Elizabeth had six children together. The ones we’re concerned with are Narcisse Landry born in 1796 and Elie Onezime Landry born in 1800. Those are the other two sons that I descend from. Like I said at the beginning, there are five lines to Ignace Landry. That’s because Manuel and Narcisse each had two children that descend down to me. I descend from two of Manuel’s daughters and two of Narcisse’s sons. Since both of Ignace’s wives had the name Breau and they were second cousins, I have five lines that lead back to their great grandfather Antoine Breau.
So that takes care of the Breau connections, right? I hope you can follow my chart. I’ve mostly talked about the top name – Ignace Landry – and his two wives Scholastique Breaux and Olive Elizabeth Braud. Those two are mentioned in the blue text on the top right of the chart. I also mention their great grandfather Antoine Breau. Their great grandmother (Antoine’s wife) was Marguerite Babin (1670-1730). I wouldn’t want to leave her out, even though it complicates things a little. Ignace’s mother was Marie Madeleine Babin. The common ancestor was further back, but they were definitely the same family.
Now I’ll show how the Hebert family ties into the mix. Manuel, the oldest brother I descend from, was married in 1808 to Clarice Celeste Bruneteau. She has such a pretty French name. Yet she is not only descended from French ancestors, because her mother was Acadian Anne Marie Hebert. Anne Marie had married fellow Acadian Joseph Dupuis soon after her family had come to Louisiana. They, too, had settled in St. Gabriel. After having six children together, Joseph died. Anne Marie then married Frenchman Pierre Bruneteau in 1785. Anne Marie then had two more children, with the youngest being Clarice Celeste. Anne Marie was 44 when she had her.
The left side of the chart shows Manuel with the blue text talking about his marriage to Celeste. They had six children together, but the only ones I show are the ones I descend from – Marguerite and Adele. Marguerite is shown on the left side of the graph. She married Joseph Auguste Leveque, the widowed husband of her older sister Clarissa. There are a lot of descendants of these couples and many of them still carry the Leveque last name. If you follow the line down from Manuel and veer to the right, you find Adele’s name. Adele married Amede Bujol. There are a lot of descendants of this couple also, but not many carry the Bujol name. They had ten daughters and one son, and only the daughters had children.
The next oldest brother that I descend from is Narcisse. He married Marie Carmelite Hebert in 1819. Carmelite was the granddaughter of Pierre Paul Hebert, the oldest sibling of Anne Marie Hebert. (She also had two Babin grandparents and one Landry grandparent.) Narcisse and Carmelite had eight children. Their youngest two were sons and I descend from both of them – Trasimond and Alcide. Trasimond married Belite Bujol and Alcide married Marie Celeste Leveque. The lines in the graph are coming together! Pierre Paul and Anne Marie are children of Paul Gascon Hebert and Marguerite Josephe Melanson.
The youngest of the sons that I descend from is Elie Onezime Landry. He married Zerbine Dupuy in 1825. Zerbine was the granddaughter of Anne Marie Hebert thru her first husband Joseph Dupuis. You’ll probably notice that I spell some of these names differently. The spelling of Breau is what you see in documents from Acadia, while in Louisiana it is spelled Breaux and Braud. Dupuis is the Acadian spelling of the name. In Louisiana you’ll see both Dupuis and Dupuy, and they usually are from the same ancestors. Onezime and Zerbine’s daughter Emma is the one with the most descendants. She married Frenchman Ferdinand Pierre Patureau and gave birth to sixteen children. Not all of them lived to adulthood, but many of them did and they had large families of their own. There are at least a thousand descendants. Count ’em! A thousand!
These lines come together at the bottom of the graph. On the left is a blue box labeled Rob. That would be Robert Joseph Landry, Sr. He was my grandfather and he was known by Bob, Rob, Pappy, Papa, and Pee Paw. I never called him anything because he died before I was born. On the bottom right is a pink box labeled Erie. That would be Germaine Erie Patureau Landry. She was my grandmother and she was known as Erie, Mama, and Mee Maw. I got to enjoy her as my dear sweet grandmother until I was almost thirteen years old. They are my dad’s parents, and I think that’s all I have to say for now.
Isn’t that enough?