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French
Canadian Descendance
Jacques,
established in Martinique Island, married Catherine Aubier and from this union
was borned two children: François and Jacques.
After his wife passed away, Jacques came back to Quebec.
He set up shop on Buade street as a shopkeeper.
He passed away in 1731 following a mysterious accident.
His two sons seem to have stayed in Martinique with their maternal
grandparents. It
will be Andre that will maintain the progeny of the Daigle family in Quebec by
his marriage to Thérèse Proulx on November the 9th, 1711 in the
church of Neuville. Two years later, he bought a plot of land in the seigniory
of Tilly, on the south shore of the St-Lawrence’s river, opposite to Neuville.
He died in 1727 at age 39 and his burial was marked by the presence of
most of the parishioners. His sons
settled in the surrounding area of the family house in the county of Lotbinière.
Gradually, their descendants went to clear new plots of land in the
neighbouring regions: Bois-Francs and Montérégie. Louisiana
Descendance
We
don't exactly know under which circumstances, but we find Etienne in Louisiana. First by his wedding to Suzanne Desperon in 1722 and then “à
la Côte des Allemands (region bording the Mississipi river on both sides, about
30 kilometers north of New Orleans)” in 1724.
Marie-Josephe, his eldest daughter, marries a French from Grenoble,
Jacques Roman. Their descendants
will form the Creole aristocracy of that era: wealthy landowners, judges,
diplomats and even governor of Louisiana. Indeed,
André-Bienvenu Roman, grandson of Marie-Josephe was elected two times governor
of Louisiana before the civil war. His
brother Jacques-Télesphore built for his wife a sumptuous estate called Bonséjour
in front of the Mississipi river in Vacherie at the south west of Baton Rouge. Alfred,
son of André Bienvenu was judge, author (biographer of General P.T. Beauregard)
and books publisher. A herbarium of
dried seaweeds dating from 1876 is part of the archives of the Daigle dit
Lallemand’s Association. Two
sons of Etienne «Marlborough», Etienne II and François, carry on the
Louisiana descendance for the first one and, possibly, Arkansas for the second
one. On the other hand, Etienne III
marries Marie-Anne Taillon at the ST Fort Louis in Missouri.
This family came back in Louisiana before 1800 and settled in Opelousas
in St Landry Parish. Their descendance were amongst the first landowners of
Church Point (Acadia Parish, south of Opelousas) where we find most of Daigle
dit Lallemand’s families in Louisiana. It
is interesting to note that the greatest advocate of the Cajun’s language was
Monsignor Jules Daigle (dit Lallemand). In
1984, he published his Cajun Dictionary
and, in 1992, the Cajun Self-Taught, a
study on the words and phrases on the Cajun’s language.
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