Page 1 |
Previous | 1 of 1 | Next |
|
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
Large
Extra Large
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
All (PDF)
|
This page
All
|
Loading content ...
11 October 1973 Mrs. Alice D. Forsyth, Archivist St. Louis Cathedral 615 Pere Antoine Alley New Orleans, La. 70116 Dear Mrs. Forsyth: Thank you so much for the information in your last letter...these are all definitely part of the story here and every small piece helps to bridge and build. I have just received photostats of some more indices and several exciting possibilities are indicated. Probably someone else has noted this but I am most excited to make my own conclusion concerning one who possible was in the original Law colony group here in Arkansas. In your Pest Ships book (which you so generously gave me), listed on page 2, as a passenger on "Les Deux Freres" is PIERRE BONTEMP of Tierache under "miners of Cambray". In a 1749 census of "Voyageurs" in the Arkansas is found BONTEMPS a "Bourgeois" employing three "engages". In Marriage Contracts of Natchitoches (see photostat attached) I found marriage of a daughter of a Pierre Bontem(p)s (her record shows CICILLE) but the following prove BONTEMPS) who was born in ARKANSAS. I haven't run across his marriage record but I did note in the Book I (1720-1730) index.. "BOTSON, Claude to CHENE, Magdeleine p 53". This just has to be the parents of his widow, remarrying in No. 22 on the attached. If I could have the names in this entry, possibly they contain other 'clues'. In the four 1744 records I sent you, a Louise Marchand is listed as godmother in two instances. In the Marriage Register of St. Louis Basilica Index, 1731-1737 copied by Mrs. Thelma Coignard, I find "MARCHAND, Louise & REIBAUT, Lambert p 55". Again, perhaps this could be pertinent as I do have LAMBERTS at a later date and the names in this entry would afford another glimmer. In marriages of a later date, I found several that almost have to 'fit' into families associated with the Arkansas. I may be asking for too much but how can you know of my interest if I don't ask?? So.... In MARRIAGE REGISTER OF ST. LOUIS BASILICA ~ Register B - 1764 - 1774... JACQUELIN avec LEPINE 80 (several Lepine references in records you copied) LAMBERT avec MAISON 15 (a Joseph Mason still on hand when Americans take over and is also listed in records copied) PERTHUIS avec DEROCHE 23 (I think this is marriage record of the Nicolas's parents whose death record you gave me in your last letter and his grandparents interest me.) LANDRONY avec REGNISSE 46 (Remember the Landrony in the 1744 entries?) In MARRIAGE REGISTER VOL 1 • 1777 - 1784 * only one surname is given so I am not sure whether this indicates marriage record for a person of this name or whether a person of this name appears on page indicated in some other capacity. In one instance there is no number extended by the name. These are exciting possibles... BOUTON (no number) - I have a resident into American era whose marriage is recorded in the records you copied, Michel Pettersal, and a couple of children baptised in 1764, whose mother was Marie Francoise BOUTON; LAMBERT and FRANCUZER both on p 2 and LANDRONI on p 4 which could fit with the families per our previous letters: EMBO p .145 * This is just one of the many variant spellings of a large family continuing in the area well into American period and the records you copied as IMBEAU, HIMBEAU, IMBAULT, AMBO also; PRENGLE on 28 - This is most exciting as this is the first place I have found this name in hunting up and down the river, that is, one even close to the PRINGLE, BRINGLE
Object Description
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Translation/Transcript | 11 October 1973 Mrs. Alice D. Forsyth, Archivist St. Louis Cathedral 615 Pere Antoine Alley New Orleans, La. 70116 Dear Mrs. Forsyth: Thank you so much for the information in your last letter...these are all definitely part of the story here and every small piece helps to bridge and build. I have just received photostats of some more indices and several exciting possibilities are indicated. Probably someone else has noted this but I am most excited to make my own conclusion concerning one who possible was in the original Law colony group here in Arkansas. In your Pest Ships book (which you so generously gave me), listed on page 2, as a passenger on "Les Deux Freres" is PIERRE BONTEMP of Tierache under "miners of Cambray". In a 1749 census of "Voyageurs" in the Arkansas is found BONTEMPS a "Bourgeois" employing three "engages". In Marriage Contracts of Natchitoches (see photostat attached) I found marriage of a daughter of a Pierre Bontem(p)s (her record shows CICILLE) but the following prove BONTEMPS) who was born in ARKANSAS. I haven't run across his marriage record but I did note in the Book I (1720-1730) index.. "BOTSON, Claude to CHENE, Magdeleine p 53". This just has to be the parents of his widow, remarrying in No. 22 on the attached. If I could have the names in this entry, possibly they contain other 'clues'. In the four 1744 records I sent you, a Louise Marchand is listed as godmother in two instances. In the Marriage Register of St. Louis Basilica Index, 1731-1737 copied by Mrs. Thelma Coignard, I find "MARCHAND, Louise & REIBAUT, Lambert p 55". Again, perhaps this could be pertinent as I do have LAMBERTS at a later date and the names in this entry would afford another glimmer. In marriages of a later date, I found several that almost have to 'fit' into families associated with the Arkansas. I may be asking for too much but how can you know of my interest if I don't ask?? So.... In MARRIAGE REGISTER OF ST. LOUIS BASILICA ~ Register B - 1764 - 1774... JACQUELIN avec LEPINE 80 (several Lepine references in records you copied) LAMBERT avec MAISON 15 (a Joseph Mason still on hand when Americans take over and is also listed in records copied) PERTHUIS avec DEROCHE 23 (I think this is marriage record of the Nicolas's parents whose death record you gave me in your last letter and his grandparents interest me.) LANDRONY avec REGNISSE 46 (Remember the Landrony in the 1744 entries?) In MARRIAGE REGISTER VOL 1 • 1777 - 1784 * only one surname is given so I am not sure whether this indicates marriage record for a person of this name or whether a person of this name appears on page indicated in some other capacity. In one instance there is no number extended by the name. These are exciting possibles... BOUTON (no number) - I have a resident into American era whose marriage is recorded in the records you copied, Michel Pettersal, and a couple of children baptised in 1764, whose mother was Marie Francoise BOUTON; LAMBERT and FRANCUZER both on p 2 and LANDRONI on p 4 which could fit with the families per our previous letters: EMBO p .145 * This is just one of the many variant spellings of a large family continuing in the area well into American period and the records you copied as IMBEAU, HIMBEAU, IMBAULT, AMBO also; PRENGLE on 28 - This is most exciting as this is the first place I have found this name in hunting up and down the river, that is, one even close to the PRINGLE, BRINGLE |
Tags
Comments
Post a Comment for Page 1