Jean Baptiste Nicaise (abt. 1725 - abt. 1768)

Born about 1725 in Paris, France

Husband of Marie Angelique (Miot) Nicaise — married 11 May 1745 in Mobile, Alabama

Descendants

Died about 1768 at about age 43 in Mobile, Alabama

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Biography

Sources

• 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.245. Text:

Mob. mb I:33c-1

May 11, 1745

Two banns published; dispensed with the third

Jean Baptiste Nicaise, native of St. Benoit¹ Parish in Parish, son of Jacques Nicaise, master, and of Catherine Duver.

Marie Catherine Miot, native of the Alibamons post, daughter of Andre Miot, habitant of the Mobile area, and of Marie Angelique Girard.

Witnesses named: the father and mother of the bride; Henry de Louboey, chevalier of St. Louis, lieutenant and commandant in the department (of Mobile); Jacques Annibal Develle, captain of a detached Marine company and aide-major of the post (of Mobile).

Witnesses signing: Cross of the (bride's) father; Ollivier (Philippe); Paullet (not identified); Guillaume (not identified); Marcelin, notary, bridegroom in 1748 (Mob. mg I:39); pierre Nicolas Annibal Develle, bridegroom in 1738 (Mob. mb I:20); (Claude?) Boutté; (Henri de) Louboey, commandant at Mobile until 1748 (MPA, I, 215n; HMLO, 186);² (Francois) Girard, bridegroom in 1741 (Mob. mb I:29); Minard (not identified).³

1. St. Benoit Parish in Paris was not found in the Michelin Green Guide to Paris, 1967-1968 edition.

2. In 1725, his wife was Marie (Modhui?) de St. Simon. Mob. bb I:59.

3. Possibly Gilbert Minard, sergeant, who died in 1754. He was the son of Claude Minard and Claudine Devau, of Moulin, department of Alliers. Deville, G C C, 50.

Mobile Marriages MAA, MB1, P33