Marie Adelaide Angilbert (1785 - 1845)

Born Jun 1785 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Bretagne, France

Ancestors

Died 9 Sep 1845 at age 60 in Lafourche, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Etienne Francois Angilbert is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Plaque 12-Right, La Caroline. Listed with him is his wife Felicity Hebert and their daughter Adelaide. ^[1]

Marie Adelaide was born in 1785. She was the daughter of Etienne Francois Angilbert and Felicité Hebert. ^[2]

On September 1784, her parents are "On the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty," dated Sep 1784". Adelaide had not been born yet.^[3]

On 17 December 1785, the couple debarked from La Caroline at the Port of New Orleans with their nursling daughter [this girl]. At debarkation, they received 1 each of axe, hatchet, shovel, meat cleaver and 2 hoes. ^[4]

Félicité HEBERT, age 28, an Acadian, wife of Étienne François ANGILBERT, stranger, printer in Lauze, age 32, and a nursling daughter, traveling with them as the 25th family aboard "La Caroline."

She married Francois Doucet on 2 May 1802 in Present-day Plattenville, Assumption, Louisiana. They couple had 11 children.

She died in 1845 and was buried at Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana.^[5]

A probate was held at the Thibodaux Courthouse on 29 January 1846. ^[6]

Research

This is their first known child. Marie Adelaide Angilbert is called "Mariana Gilbert" on the baptism record. Church officials edited the record.

Maria Rosa Doucet (Francisco [Doucet], of St. Malo & Mariana Gilbert [Angilbert intended], of Nantes) bt. 5 Aug 1803 bn. 20 May 1803 spo. Estevan Hebert & Rosa Dusset (ASM-1, 279)^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial"; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p. 46
2. ↑ Acadian Exiles in Nantes, 1775-1785 - Albert J. Robichaux - Harvey, LA: Author, 1978; p. 2, family #1 - Baptized on 16 [sic] Jan 1785.
3. ↑ Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796; Jacqueline K. Voorhies - Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973 ; p. 505; (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575).

   On list from NANTES:

   François ANGILBERT, with wife Felicité HÉBERT, for a total of 2 in family.

4. ↑ Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index - Donald J. Hébert - Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995; pp. 110-111
5. ↑ South Louisiana Records, vol. 2, 1841-1850 - Donald J. Hebert - Rayne, LA: Hebert Publications, 1978 - Church and Civil Records of Lafourche - Terrebonne Parishes. - p. 166

   Marie Ange GILBERT [sic] married to Francois DOUCET, died 10 Sep 1845 at age 60 years (Thib.Ch.: v.1, #210).

6. ↑ South Louisiana Records, vol. 2, 1841-1850 - Donald J. Hebert - Rayne, LA: Hebert Publications, 1978 - Church and Civil Records of Lafourche - Terrebonne Parishes; p. 6

   Marie [ANGILBERT] died 9 Sep 1845, married to Francois DOUCET; nine children listed on Probate Sale (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: Year 1846).

7. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge. Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records: Volume 2 1770-1803 (p. 381). Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge. Kindle Edition.