Joseph Antoine Barbeau (1700 - 1754)

Born 20 Mar 1700 in Boucherville, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Jeanne Louise Brette — married 8 Apr 1726 in Fort Condé de la Mobile, La Louisiane, Nouvelle-France

Husband of Marguerite Colon — married 13 Oct 1747 in Fort Conde, Mobile, La Louisiane, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 1 Aug 1754 at age 54 in Saint Louis Plantation Mobile, La Louisiane, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

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Joseph Antoine Barbeau has French origins.

Joseph Antoine Barbeau a vécu
au Canada, Nouvelle-France.

Joseph Antoine Barbeau, dit Boisdore

• Dit Boisdoré is his ancestral French dit name. It identifies or distinguishes something about the person or family. Boisdore was also spelled Bois Dor, or Bois Dore. This dit name was carried from France to Nouvelle France and French Louisanne by his French Barbeau family. It refers to a master craftsman gold guilder or gold wood gilding and remains a modern gold gilding definition. Dit Boisdore also referred to a French seigneury ( wood producing plantation) named Boisdore, Bois-Barbeau or Bois-Barbot in France. Eventually French dit name use was dropped as families became nationalized in North America and discontinued in France after the French Revolution. He received his dit name from his father in Nouvelle France, used in France, carried it to Lousianne and gave it to his children.Baraboo-1 16:50, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
• Surname spelling variants found in this person's parish records include: Barbeau, Barbot,. They sound the same pronounced in French. Nouvelle France Parish references generally did not have family signatures to help confirm the often variable spelling of family information. Baraboo-1 17:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
• The family surname in French Lousiane was Barbeau. The family French dit name was Boisdore.(Bois Dore, Boisdor). French Louisiane records and transcribers of the period tended to use Barbeau or a variation (Barbot, Barbeaux, Barbu, etc.) along with the dit identifier. Spanish records of the period tended to transcribe Barbo, Boisdore and Barbau and use de instead of a dit or dite. Later, many Free people of color who were a part of the Barbeau dit Boisdore family history later took Boisdore as their surname. (Other names were Rochon-Barbeau or Rochon-Boisdore). Barbeau surname variants : Barbeau, Barbot, Barbaud, Barbault, Barbaux, Barbu and Barbeaux have the same sound when pronounced in French. ^{[1] [2]} Baraboo-1 16:14, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
• Joseph probably traveled from Nouvelle-France to France and then from France to Mobile, Louisiane. The written ban at Mobile attesting his unmarried status, reports of his visits of many countries. Arriving from France was typical of the many artisans who journeyed to Louisiane during his time period (est. 1720-1725). Joseph represents the first Barbeau dit Boisdore family line to migrate to French Louisiane circa 1720. The Barbeau family of Mobile once owned and successfully operated the St. Louis Plantation during the French period. The plantation was instrumental and essential to Fort Conde and Mobile in providing fresh food to the inhabitants and soldiers during its French settlement. By the Barbeau and Rochon family marriages the St Louis planation connected to the larger and significant Rochon Dog River Plantation in the Mobile. Baraboo-1 16:14, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
• Born: March 20, 1700; Boucherville, Canada, Nouvelle-France
• Baptism: 20 MAR 1700 ; Boucherville, Quebec, Canada, Nouvelle France
• Death: August 1, 1754 ; Saint Louis Plantation Mobile, La Louisiane, Nouvelle-France. His parents are listed. He is listed as Joseph Barbot Boisdore. There are no family signatures listed.^[3]
• Burial : 1754; La Louisiane, Nouvelle-France
• Occupations: master tailor, farmer, land owner

Parents:

• Jean Baptiste Francois Barbeau dit Boisdoré
• Marie Denoyon

Siblings

1. Marguerite Barbeau dite Boisdoré 1675- (de Marie Denoyon)
2. Geneviève Barbeau dite Boisdore (1689 - 1773) (de Marie Denoyon)
3. Jean-Baptiste Barbeau dit Boisdore (1691 - ) (de Marie Denoyon)
4. Gabriel Barbeau dit Boisdore (1694 - 1751) (de Marie Denoyon)
5. Marie Barbeau dite Boisdore (1695 - 1743) (de Marie Denoyon)
6. Madeleine Barbeau dite Boisdore (1697 - ) (de Marie Denoyon)
7. François Barbeau dit Boisdore (1698 - ) (de Marie Denoyon)
8. Pierre Barbeau dit Boisdoré (1699 - 1725) (de Marie Denoyon)
9. Joseph Barbeau dit Boisdoré (1700 - ) (de Marie Denoyon)
10. Jean-Baptiste Barbeau (1701 - 1701) (de Marie Denoyon)
11. Louis Barbeai dit Boisdore 1705-1706
12. Charlotte Barbeau (1706 - 1706) (de Marie Denoyon)
13. Charlotte Barbeau dite Boisdoré (1707 - 1744) (de Marie Denoyon)
14. Thérèse Barbeau dite Boisdoré (1709 - 1747) (de Marie Denoyon)
15. Louyse Barbot dite Boisdoré (1710 - 1711) (de Marie Denoyon)
16. Jean Barbeau dit Boisdore (1713 - ) (de Marie Denoyon)

Spouse:(1)

• Marie Jeane Louise Brette
• Married:(1) Épouse Marie Louise Brette à l’Église Notre-Dame-du-Fort-Conde de la colonie française à Mobile, French Louisiane le 8 avril 1726. 7 enfants. ^[4][5]

Children of Marie Louise Brette and Joseph Antoine Barbeau dit Boisdore

1. Joseph Etienne Barbeau dit Boisdore ; 1727–
2. Claude Barbeau dit Boisdore; 1729–1746
3. Joseph Louis Barbeau dit Boisdore ; 1731–1822 ​​
4. Jeanne Louise Barbeau dite Boisdore ; 1732–1732
5. Marie Louise Barbeau dite Boisdore ; 1733–Deceased ​​
6. Marie Joseph Barbeau dite Boisdore ; 1735–1737
7. Jean Antoine Barbeau dit Boisdore ; 1737–1794
8. Louise Jeanne Barbeau dite Boisdore ; 1741–​​
9. Morris Barbeau dit Boisdore ; 1744–
10. Genevieve Barbeau dite Boisdore ; 1745–

Spouse: (2)

• Marguerite Colon dite LaViolette
• Married:(2) Épouse Marguerite Colon à l’Église Notre-Dame-du-Fort-Conde de la colonie française à Mobile, French Louisiane le 13 octobre 1747. ^[6][7]

Marriage to Marie Jeane Louise Brette

• Prior to getting married Joseph had no way to prove that he was free to marry so he, the priest, the principal clerk and judge of the area, and some witnesses wrote up an act for their protection.^[8]
• Attestation and Bans; "April 6, 1726; " Appearing before us f. Mathias, Capuchin priest, apostolic missionary, acting as curé at Mobile, and Mr. De La Loire Flaucour, principal clerk and judge of the said place, Joseph Barbau dit Boisdoré Native of Quebec, master tailleur presently living at New Orleans, and [he] swore beofre us and in the presence of Claude Parant, resident of Mobile; of Louis Assailly dit Tranchemontagne; and of Catherine Christophe, spouse of the said Parant; that he has not been married, and [that] he is entirely free, as is required for the marriage he wants to make with a girl of this place, Mobile, and that, since he cannot give the sufficient proofs of the single state, in which he must be to be able to contract the marriage, because of the voyages that he has made in different counties,(France) so he has engaged us to write up this act for our protection, in faith thereof we have signed the day and year above mentioned with the witnesses herein named above. Witnesses named: Claude Parant, resident of Mobile; Louis Assailly dit Tranchemontagne; Catherine Christophe, spouse of Sieur Parant.
• Witnesses signing: Joseph Barbeau (Barbo) dit Boisdoré; Mathias de Sedan, Capuchin priest, apostolic missionary, curé (of Mobile); Cath(erine) Christophe (formerly widow of Pierre Boyer, then wife of Claude Parant); cross of Louis Assaily (dit Tranchemontagne), who married Marie Thérèse Bret in 1724 (Mob bb I:50); cross of Claude Parant; (Louis Auguste) de La Loëre Flaucour. La Loëre Flaucour, an official at Mobile, 1724-1726. He was sent to Balize in 1727. ^[9]
• April 8, 1726 ;One bann published. "Joseph Barbo (Barbeau) dit Boisdoré, master tailleur, now living in New Orleans, son of Jean Baptiste Barbeau dit Boisdoré and of Marie de Noyon. Marie Louise Bret, daughter of Louis Bret, master tailleur, and of Elizabeth Roy of St. Sauveur Parish in La Rochelle. Witnesses named: Estienne Du Bordieu, Louis Bourbon, Jean Baptiste Fontaine (Possibly Jean Fontaille), and Barthelemy de la Mar. Witnesses signing: E(tienne) Dubourdieu, spouse of Jeanne Kerourette; (Louis) Bourbon (dit Osseman); Fontai-- (faded. Visible letters look like the 1724 Fontaille signatures, Mob. mb I:53-54); Marie Bret, one of the sisters of the bride; (Barthelemy Justin de) Lamare, spouse of Claude Francoise de Vodestar; Jeanne Kerrouret, who signed "querrouret" on her 1736 marriage certificate; André Guillette, wife of Louis Bourbon. The groom's parents were Francois Jean Barbeau dit Boisdoré and Marie de Noyan in ^{[10][11][12][13]}

Marriage to Marguerite Colon

• Notre-Dame-du-Fort-Conde de la colonie française à Mobile, French Louisiane le 13 octobre 1747; One bann published; dispensed with two.
• " Joseph Barbeau (dit Boisdoré), master tailleur, widower of Louise Bret, native of Petit Lac in Canada, son of Joseph Barbeau and Genevieve Noyan. Marguerite Colon, native of this parish (Mobile), widow of Francois Hamon, master pilot, daughter of Jean Colon and Marguerite Praux. Witnesses signing: Veuve Bouloune, mother of the bride, widow of Claude Pinsedé dit Boulonnois; (Pierre Louis) Doussin, brother-in-law of the bride; (Maurice) Durand, husband of Gabrielle Grandval; (Jean Baptiste Allein?) Rous-eve, if Jean Baptiste, the bride's brother-in-law;; J(ean?) Collon, son of Jean Colon and Marguerite Praux; A(ntoine) Collon, brother of the bried; (Antoine) Negrier, husband of Magdeleine Rouger; (Claude Pinsedé dit) Boulounois, half-brother of the bride.^[14]

St Louis Plantation Historical Abstract

"Life held plenty of rough edges for the planters as well as the slaves, but the former certainly enjoyed a greater degree of domestic comfort than their chattel. Something of the quality of daily planter life may be gleaned from the inventory of Joseph Pierre Chastang’s worldly goods. Chastang (1736 - 1815) and his wife lived with their 11 children on St. Louis Plantation, a 640-acre property with eight cabins near Three Mile Creek. His inventory of belongings included furniture such as a bureau, two bedsteads, two cypress tables, seven straw-bottomed chairs and a mahogany table “with falling leaves.” Kitchen and dining utensils documented were a gridiron frying pan, a coffee pot, a marble mortar, 12 silver spoons and two ladles. Other assets consisted of farm implements such as an old plough, four iron wedges, a couple of “old cross cut saws” and miscellaneous tools; three pirogues; a gun; two dozen candle moulds; two “worn saddles;” and some “smoothing irons.” The catalog makes it clear that these items saw heavy usage. Although no clothing is listed, just the intriguing entry for the smoothing irons, observations made of British Mobile’s residents hold true for the French, Spanish and early-American periods as well: Climate dictated dress. Men wore “a slight waistcoat of cotton, a pair of trousers of the same and often no coat.” In cooler weather they threw on “a kind of surtout, made of a blanket, and a pair of Indian boots.” Women also dressed in lightweight garb. Slave clothing was even simpler, sometimes rags, but on the best farms it included shoes and for the women “a petticoat, and a jacket.” Waterfront access was all-important to these people, for the Mobile River was the highway into and out of their world. Consequently, their plantations sat on long and narrow parcels that stretched from the river east or west across rich Delta or through pine-studded uplands. Even today, traces of these land divisions are visible, and the rich medley of upriver family names. Author: John S. Sledge is the author of “A Fine, Large River: The Mobile in American History,” to be published in 2015 by the University of South Carolina Press." ^[15]

Memorial

• " Joseph “Dit Boisdore” Barbau (Barbeau dit Boisdore)
• BIRTH: 20 Mar 1700 ; Longueuil, Monteregie Region, Quebec, Canada (not sourced, incorrect, Boucherville, Canada, Nouvelle France )
• DEATH 1 Aug 1754 (aged 54) ; Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, USA (not sourced incorrect, location not circa Mobile, La Louisiane, Nouvelle-France)
• BURIAL ( Burial :Date: AUG 1754) ;Campo Santo (Spanish Cemetery) (Probably moved there); Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA (location circa Mobile, La Louisiane, Nouvelle-France) MEMORIAL ID 149006334"^[16]

Sources

• Marriage Information: http://www.crt.state.la.us/dataprojects/museum/blackbook/Black_Book_69_1749-1751.pdf
• Source: S13 Type: Book Periodical: Arch. of New Orleans Sacr. Rec. Volume: v2, 1751-1771 Media: [book] Editor: Woods, Earl, ed.
• Source: S14 Type: Book Periodical: Arch. of New Orleans Sacr. Rec. Volume: v3, 1772-1783 Media: [book] Editor: Woods, Earl, ed.

1. ↑ [(The French Language in the Seventeenth Century: Contemporary Opinion in France By Peter Rickard)]
2. ↑ [( https://translate.google.com/#fr/en/Barbeau%2C%20Barbot%2C%20Barbaut%2C%20Barbaud%2C%20Barbaux%20%2C%20Barbeaux )]
3. ↑ [( Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 Name: Joseph Barbot [Joseph Barbeau Boisdoré ] Gender: homme (Male) Baptism Age: 0 Event Type: Baptême (Baptism) Birth Date: 20 Mars 1700 [1700 Mar 20] Baptism Date: 20 Mars 1700 [1700 mars 20] Baptism Place: Boucherville, Québec, Canada Baptism Church: Boucherville Father: Jean Barbot Boisdore Mother: Marie De Noyon Source Citation: Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp.)]
4. ↑ [(https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K246-HDT)]
5. ↑ [( Alabama, U.S., Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942 Name: Joseph Barba Or Boisdore Gender: Male Marriage Date: 08 Apr 1726 Marriage Place: Notre-Dame-Du Fort Conde De La Mobile-Catholic, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama Father: J. Baptiste Barba Or Boisdore Mother: Marie De Poyau Spouse: Marie Louise Bret FHL Film Number: 1026601 Original data: Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.)]
6. ↑ [(Family Tree genealogy report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17AxOHAxphkttf95AlvoQv1uDRZJhMJ846sf1mLgSre4/edit?pli=1#)]
7. ↑ [( Alabama, U.S., Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942 Name: Joseph Barbeau Gender: Male Marriage Date: 06 Oct 1747 Marriage Place: Notre-Dame-Du Fort Conde De La Mobile-Catholic, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama Father: Joseph Barbeau Mother: Jeanne Poyau Spouse: Marguerite Collon FHL Film Number: 1026601 Original data: Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.)]
8. ↑ [(Love's Legacy: The Mobile Marriages Recorded in French, Transcribed, with Annotated Abstracts in English, 1724-1786 by Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine. University of Southwestern Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 1985, p.37 Text: Mob. mb I:3a-1-3b)]
9. ↑ [(Conrad, First Families, I, 230. In 1730, he was at New Orleans. S.L.NO. mb A no. 378. Appointed as clerk for Illinois ; September 15, 1733; (AC, B 57:616), he served until his death in 1746. Pease and Jenison, Illinois on Eve, 48n; Kaskaska, 1737:5:18, 12:18; 1738:8-24, 9:24; 1743:7:27, etc. Caldwell gives his death date as 1747. Caldwell, French in the Mississippi Valley, 46. It is true that Joseph Buchet was not notified that he would replace La Loëre until 1748. Maurepas to Buchet, December 11, 1747, AN, Col. B 58:32, transcribed in Pease and Jenison, Illinois on Eve, 47-48. Once that was taken care of he was able to wed Marie Louise Bret on April 8, 1726, also at Fort Condé.")]
10. ↑ [(Drouin, DNCF, I, 47)]
11. ↑ [( Jean Barbot dit Boisdoré and Marie de Noyon in Tanguay, DGCG, I, 25;); and Jean Barbeau and Marie De Noyon (dit Boisdoré) in ibid., II, 111. Marie De Noyon's father was De Noyon or Desnoyers in ibid., I, 382." )]
12. ↑ [(Love's Legacy: The Mobile Marriages Recorded in French, Transcribed, with Annotated Abstracts in English, 1724-1786 by Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine. University of Southwestern Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 1985, p. 39.)]
13. ↑ [(Love's Legacy: The Mobile Marriages Recorded in French, Transcribed, with Annotated Abstracts in English, 1724-1786 by Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine. University of Southwestern Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 1985: Mob. mbI:3b-1-4a)]
14. ↑ [(Love's Legacy: The Mobile Marriages Recorded in French, Transcribed, with Annotated Abstracts in English, 1724-1786 by Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine. University of Southwestern Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 1985, p.267. Text::Mob. mb I:38a-1)]
15. ↑ [(http://www.mobilebaymag.com/Mobile-Bay/February-2014/French-Plantation-Life-on-the-Mobile-River/)]
16. ↑ [(Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 August 2020), memorial page for Joseph “Dit Boisdore” Barbau (20 Mar 1700–1 Aug 1754), Find a Grave Memorial no. 149006334, citing Campo Santo (Spanish Cemetery), Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by CMC (contributor 47117651) )]

See Also

• Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890; Name: Joseph Barbot dit Boisdoré; Relationship to Head: Enfant (Child); Baptism Date: 20 mars 1700 (20 Mar 1700); Baptism Place: Boucherville; Father: Jean Barbot dit Boisdoré; Mother: Marie de Noyon: Source Citation: Volume: Vol. 1 Sect. 1 : A-Hel; Page: 25
• Family Tree: 17 Sources: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/K246-HDT)]
• Family Tree: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=madvintner&id=I1846
• Family Tree: http://www.geni.com/people/Joseph-Boisdore/6000000002318216512
• Family Tree: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=madvintner&recno=2535
• family Tree: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=madvintner&id=I1846
• Histrical Reference:

https://www.hancockcountyhistoricalsociety.com/history/the-favre-family-in-early-hancock-county--ms

• Family Tree: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=madvintner&recno=2557
• Membership required: Family Tree: ancestry.com ;genealogy/records/joseph-barbeau-boisdore_23074603
• Family Tree: Numerous sources: http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2010/03/cox-334-335.html