Girardy/Henry Family Publication

              

PAUL BARRE
B. Apr. 4, 1698, in Canada, son of JACQUES BARRE and MARIE ELIZABETH 
   JETTE BARRE, of Montreal, Canada

M. MARIE JEANNE GIRARDY, daughter of JOSEPH GIRARDY and MARIE
   JEANNE HENRY GIRARDY 

D. 1761

C. Five
   I. Marie Jeanne Barre
      B. Baptised Sept 11, 1728
      M. Nov. 30, 1744, Paul Malet, from Illinois area

   II. Eugene Barre
       M. MARIE JOSEPHE D'AIGLE ROMAN, widow of JACQUES ROMAN, 
       daughter of ETIENNE D'AIGLE & SUZANNE D'ESPERON D'AIGLE
       C. Two
          A. Jean Baptiste Barre
          B. Honore Barre

III. Cecilia Barre
     M. July 27, 1754, Francois Roquigny

IV. MARIE LOUISE BARRE 
    B. 1741
    M. 1) JACQUES PATIN I, born 1726, son of ANTOINE PATIN and 
          GASPARDE DE MONNET PATIN

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2) In 1785, Laurent Bailly, died 1801, son of Joseph Bailly and 
   Barbe Hertillin Bailly 
D. Jan. 10, 1795
C. Two known in first marriage
   A. MARIE LOUISE PATIN
   B. Oct 12, 1762, in Pointe Coupee
   M. JACQUES ETIENNE ROMAN, born Oct. 18, 1748, son of 
      JACQUES ROMAN and MARIE JOSEPHE D'AIGLE ROMAN 
   D. Oct 14, 1830, in New Orleans
   C. Ten, listed in Chapter 15
B. Jacques Alexandre Patin
   M. Feb. 9, 1793, Celeste Allain, daughter of Francois Allain 
      and Marie  Francoise Ricard Allain


V. Charles Alexandre Barre
B. 1746
M. Apr. 9, 1771, Magdeleine de Cuir, daughter of Jean Pierre de Cuir 
   and Genevieve Mayheur de Cuir
D. July 14, 1829
C. One recorded
   A. Marie Louise Barre 
      B. March 29, 1773



                                                  Chapter 15 C

                                       The Girardy Family - The Henry Family


     The parents of Marie Jeanne Girardy who married 
Paul Barre were Joseph Girardy and Marie Jeanne 
Henry. The name Girardy is found spelled Girard, Gi-
rardet, Girardeau, but we are not sure of the origin of 
the family. In his memoirs written about 1752, Jean 
Francois Durucant, in Quarterly, Vol. 19, says: "Going 
to an assignment to the Yazoo Post in November of 
1721, by way of Lake Pontchartrain, we rowed up a 
river for two leagues. Here was a landing with a few 
warehouses. There were only three settlers at this 
place. One on the right bank of the Bayou going up was 
a Canadian, named Joseph Girardy, his wife and his 
children, and a few Indian slaves. On the left bank was 
Sieur La Vigne and his family. He has a good planta-
tion. The third was Sieur Dugue, a bachelor. One hun-
dred steps farther are several warehouses for the 
merchandises sent from New Biloxi in this new settle-
ment which they intended to start one league from 
Bayou St. John, near the St. Louis River ... We left the 
little village of New Orleans where there were only 
four or five scattered houses belonging to a few set-
tlers." This account gives some idea of the primitive 
life of our early forebears.
     We know only through this that Joseph Girardy was 
a Canadian," and if he was, his name was probably 
Giradeau. There are several references on the Henry 
family into which he married. They owned a plantation 
on Bayou St. John near New Orleans for many years. 
Later they moved to Pointe Coupée. It is thought that 
Marie Jeanne Henry, Joseph Girardy's wife, was the 
sister of Nicolas Henry II, who served for years on the 
Superior Council as Royal Notary. She was the daugh-
ter of Nicolas Henry I and Elizabeth Thomas Henry.
     Nicolas Henry and his wife had six children, the 
third, Marie Jeanne, being our ancestress.
     We find a record that on April 13, 1728, Sieur 
Chanfret, Director of the DuBuisson Concession,

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granted his power of attorney to Sieur Nicolas Henry. 
This would indicate that Sieur Henry was connected with 
the Paris-DuVernay-DuBuisson grant, as were Jacques 
Roman and Antoine Patin I. It is not surprising that 
these families intermarried, since they all lived in the 
same general area, and were interested in the same 
enterprises. It is quite possible that they were friends 
or relatives prior to the settlement of this Concession.
     On June 10, 1729, Nicolas Henry I died. His widow,
Elizabeth Thomas Henry was appointed guardian of 
their minor daughters, Marie Catherine and Marie 
Louise Henry.
     We believe that Nicolas Henry was Canadian, and 
that he was married and had a family before he came 
to Louisiana. We have the dates of birth of only two of 
his six children, Marie Francoise, born in 1723, and 
Francois, born in 1725. His daughter, Marie Jeanne, 
married Joseph Girardy.


NICOLAS HENRY
B. In Canada
M. ELIZABETH THOMAS 
D. June 10, 1929 [1729]
C. Six

I. Nicolas Henry II 
M. Jeanne Poussin
D. Mar. 28, 1753

II. Marie Francoise Henry
B. 1723
M. Jacques Michel Du Fresne, officer of militia at Kaskaskia
C. Three
A. Marie Michelle Du Fresne
M. Apr. 11, 1763, Philippe Francois, Chevalier de Rocheblave
B. Marie Louise Du Fresne
M. Jan. 7, 1748, Joseph Buchet, principal writer for the Crown, 
widower of Marie Francoise Petier
C. Marie Francoise Du Fresne
M. Feb. 2, 1751, Prisque Le Page