Louis Stivin is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 6 Right, Le Bon Papa. Listed with Louis is his wife Marie Babin; two children Louis and Marie; and Francois Babin, his wife's brother.[1]
Marriage
Marie Babin married twice
(1) Louis Stieven 2 Jan 1783 in Chantenay, Loire-Atlantique, France [2][3]
(2) Charles Fournier 23 Feb 1800 in Plattenville, Assumption, LA [4]
Children of her first marriage:
Marie Stieven m. Michel Bourgeois
Another child died in infancy during the crossing to Louisiana
Anne Stieven m. Jean Charles Broussard
Genevieve Stieven m. Donnat Landry
Joseph Stieven
Alexandre Stieven m. Elisabeth Hortense Leday
Children of her second marriage:
Marcellin Fournier.
Residence
Residence: 1763/1773 St. Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France [5]
Census: 16 May 1763 Southampton, Hampshire, England [6][7]
Census: 15 Sep 1772 St. Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France [8]
Census: Sep 1784 Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France [9]
Immigration: 29 Jul 1785 New Orleans, Orleans, LA
Passenger on Spanish ship Le Bon Papa which left France, led by Captain Pelletier, on Tuesday, May 10, 1785 and debarked in New Orleans, July 29, 1785.[10]
Louis STEBENS , sailor - 36 [b. 1749]
Marie BABIN, wife - 18 [b. 1767]
Louis STEBENS, son - 3 [1782] Note: his child from a previous marriage
Marie STEBENS, daughter - 2 [1783]
A son STEBENS - not baptized [1785] he died before arriving in Louisiana
↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p. 28.
↑ Title: From Nantes to Louisiana, The history of Acadia: the odyssey of an exiled people; Author: Gérard-Marc Braud; English translation: Julie Fontenot Landry; Publication: La Rainette; Lafayette, Louisiana; p. 84
Note by KTR: He had married his 2nd wife in same church four years earlier.
Text: William STEBENS married on 2 Jan 1783 at St. Martin of Chantenay to Marie BABIN.
↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records; Author: Catholic Church; Vol 2, 1770-1803; Contains Baptismal, marriage and burial entries taken from some 46 registers housed in the Archives of the Diocese of Baton Rouge; pp. 51 & 297
Text: Carlos FOURNIET, widower of Maria HENNRY, native of St. Thomas, Diocese of Quebec, son of Josef & Maria Catharina ROUSSEAU, married on 23 Feb 1800 to Maria [BABIN], widow of Luis STEVEN, daughter of Simon & Anastasia TERIOT of Acadia, Witnesses: Gregorio CHICO; Ambroise HEBERT. Recorded at Assumption Catholic Church, Plattenville, LA (ASM-2, 50).
Text: On the numbered list of 219 French Neutrals delivered by Edw. NOBLE to Sieur DE LA ROCHETTE at Southampton, England.
[206] Marie BABIN, 1.
↑ source: #RiederII Source published by Karen Theriot Reader, Rootsweb.com; p. 96
Text: On the Role of the Acadian families embarked on the royal frigate “La Dorothee,” under Captain LAVENANT, who acknowledged receiving them on 17 May 1763, to be delivered to Saint Malo, France. There are 45 numbered families, plus six prisoners of war from Bristol.
Text: On "Role [sic] of the Truly Acadian Families:"
Simon BABIN, 36, good seaman, son of the above Jean, of St. Malo;
Anastasie TERRIOT, 30, his wife;
Magloire, 10, their son;
Marie, 11½, their daughter;
Francoise Marie, 6, their daughter.
↑ Title: Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796; Author: Jacqueline K. Voorhies; Publication: Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973; p. 511
Text: On list of "Acadians in France, September 1784," document in A.D.S. Legajo 2575, which shows the Acadian families who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty.
On list from Nantes:
Louis STEVEN, with wife Marie BABIN, 1 son, 1 daughter, plus Simon BABIN (in the young [unmarried] adult column), and 1 orphan, for a total of 6 in family.
↑ Title: Le Raconteur; Author: Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane; Publication: Baton Rouge:
Page: vol. XXXII, no. 3 (Sep 2012), p. 167 From Papeles procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 604A, abstracted and transcribed in article on "Spanish Correspondence on the Settlement and Welfare of the 1785 Acadians" by Judy Riffel.
Text: On 12 Sep 1785, folio 51: Simon BABIN, wife of Luis STIBIN [sic, for STEVEN]. Acadians of the "Bon Papa" expedition arriving from France, ask to be aggregated with their respective families.
Text: Marie BABIN, married (1) Louis STIEVEN; married (2) Charles FOURNIER. Children listed from 1st marriage: Marie STIEVEN married to Michel BOURGEOIS; Anne STIEVEN married to deceased Jean Charles BROUSSARD; Genevieve STIEVEN married to Donnat LANDRY; Joseph STIEVEN; deceased Alexandre STIEVEN married to deceased ELISABETH Hortense LEDAY. Children from 2nd marriage: Marcellin FOURNIER. In inventory dated 2 Dec 1829 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: 1829).
Source: SLR1 South Louisiana Records, vol. 1, 1794-1840; Donald J. Hebert; Publication: Rayne, LA, Hebert Publications, 1978; Contains church and civil records of Lafourche & Terrebonne Parishes.
Source: N&P Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785; Gérard-Marc Braud; Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999.
Source: RiederIIAcadians in France, vol. II; Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder; Publication: Metairie, LA: Authors, 1972; Note: vol. II: Belle Isle en Mer Register & La Rochette Papers.
Source: RiederIAcadians in France, Vol. I; 1762-1776; Milton P. Rieder, Jr & Norma Gaudet Rieder; Publication: Metairie, LA: Authors, 1967
Source Bibliography CHANDLER, R.E. "End of an Odyssey: Acadians Arrive in St. Gabriel, Louisiana." In Louisiana History, vol. 14:1 (Winter 1973), pp. 69-87.
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