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Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s: DUHON

[DOO-yonh, DOO-honh]

ACADIA

Mathieu Duon, a merchant, married Catherine Peyrieu at Lyon, France, in c1650. They had six children, including four sons. Their fourth child and third son, Jean-Louis, married Jeanne Clémenson at St.-Nizier de Lyon in June 1683. Jean-Louis's son Jean-Baptiste Duon dit Lyonnais, born at St.-Nizier de Lyon in c1684, emigrated to Acadia, where he served as a notary, so he must have had some formal education. He married Agnès, 17-year-old daughter of Antoine Hébert, at Port-Royal in c1713; he was 30. Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais and Agnès had 13 children, including 10 sons, all born at Port-Royal, eight of whom created families of their own. Their three daughters married into the Mius, Vincent, Landieu, and Loustaneau families. Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais died at Port-Royal in May 1746; he was 65.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in June 1714, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Vincent, at Rivière-aux-Canards in January 1736. They settled at Minas.

Honoré, born in July 1716, married Anne-Marie, another daughter of Michel Vincent, c1742, probably at Minas.

Pierre, born in March 1720, married Angélique, daughter of Martin Aucoin, at Grand-Pré in November 1745, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Aucoin, in c1757 at Bristol, England, during Le Grand Dérangement.

Abel dit Tibel, born in May 1722, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Mius d'Entremont, at Boston, Massachusetts, in c1756 during Le Grand Dérangement.

Jean-Jacques, born in April 1724, died at age 3 in April 1727.

Louis-Basile, born in April 1727, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Augustin Comeau, in the summer of 1754 at Port-Royal, and remarried to Anne, daughter of Charles Savoie, in c1766 during Le Grand Dérangement.

Francois, born in February 1729, never married.

Cyprien, born in April 1730, married Marguerite, daughter of René Landry, at Liverpool, England, in January 1758 during Le Grand Dérangement.

Charles, born in May 1734, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Préjean, at Halifax in c1759 during Le Grand Dérangement.

Youngest son Claude-Amable, born in February 1736, married Marie-Josèphe dite Josette, another daughter of Michel Vincent, at Miramichi in c1757 during Le Grand Dérangement.

In 1755, the children and grandchildren of Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais could be found at Port-Royal, which the British called Annapolis Royal, and at Minas.

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family to the winds. Three decades later, descendants of Jean-Baptiste Duon dit Lyonnais could be found at Cap-Sable, Nova Scotia, on Martinique in the Caribbean basin, in England, on Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, and in Louisiana:

In the fall of 1755, The British transported the Acadians at Minas to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New England. Jean-Baptiste Duon, fils's widow and children, and brothers Pierre and Cyprien and their families ended up on ships to Virginia.

Later that fall, the British transported the Acadians at Annapolis Royal to New England, New York, and North Carolina. The ship to North Carolina, the Pembroke, was seized by the Acadians soon after it left the Bay of Fundy. No Duons were on this vessel. Abel dit Tibel and his family ended up in Massachusetts. Louis-Basile and his family, his widowed mother, Agnès Hébert, and youngest sister Rosalie, ended up in New York, where Agnès probably died. Abel dit Tibel and Louis-Basile's brothers, Honoré, Charles, and Claude-Amable, escaped the roundup and made their way to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, now eastern New Brunswick.

The Duons from Minas who went to Virginia endured a fate worse than most of their fellow refugees. The Virginia governor, Robert Dinwiddie, refused to allow the 1,500 Acadians sent to him to remain in the colony. Hundreds of the exiles died on the filthy, crowded ships anchored in Hampton Roads while the Virginia authorities pondered their fate. The Virginians allowed a few Acadians to come ashore at various James River settlements, but they were watched closely. When some of the Acadians began to fraternize with African slaves, the Virginians returned them to the transports, where they languished with the others. A hand full of sturdy young Acadians managed to slip off the vessels and trek overland through fields and forests and across the mountains, back to French Canada. But most of them remained on the terrible ships, and more of them died. Finally, in the spring of 1756, Governor Dinwiddie and Virginia's House of Burgesses made their decision ... the Acadians must go! In May, the first shipment of Acadians left for England, and in two weeks all of them had gone--299 to Bristol, 250 to Falmouth, 340 to Portsmouth and Southampton, 336 to Liverpool--1,225 of the original 1,500. The Duons ended up in Liverpool. Their ordeal only worsened in England, where they were grossly neglected and treated like common criminals and where hundreds of their fellow Acadians died of smallpox. By 1763, more than half of the Acadians who went to England were dead.

Although their time in England was filled with misery, the Duon family did find occasion to celebrate amid the squalor and death. Pierre remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Aucoin, at Bristol in c1757. Brother Cyprien married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian René Landry, at Liverpool in January 1758. Niece Marguerite, deceased brother Jean-Baptiste, fils's daughter, married Pierre, son of fellow Acadian Pierre Trahan of Pigiguit, at Liverpool in May 1758. Her brother Honoré le jeune, named after an uncle, married Anne-Geneviève, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Trahan of Pigiguit, at Liverpool in October 1758. Their sister Marie married fellow Acadian Joachim Trahan, widower of Marguerite Landry, at Liverpool in October 1759. Sister Élisabeth, or Isabelle, married Alexandre, son of fellow Acadian Alexis Aucoin and widower of Marie Trahan, at Liverpool also in October 1759. The Duon family also celebrated births in England. Pierre Duon's daughter Francoise was born at Liverpool in c1758, and son Jean-Charles in c1762. Honoré le jeune's daughter Marie was born probably at Liverpool in the late 1750s or early 1760s.

In May 1763, after prolonged negotiations between the French and British governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France. Pierre Duon and his family disembarked from the ship La Dorothée at St.-Malo on 23 May and settled in the suburb of Plouër. His brother Cyprien, nephew Honoré le jeune, and the other Duons at Liverpool landed at Morlaix , also in Brittany. Honoré le jeune's son Francoise-Marie was born at Morlaix in March 1764.

Pierre and his second wife had more children at Plouër--Cyprien-Pierre was born in September 1765, and Pierre-Jean in January 1770. But they also buried two children--Jean-Charles, age 3, in October 1765, and 10-month-old Pierre-Jean in November 1770. Meanwhile, Pierre's daughter Marguerite married Josaphat, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexis Doiron, at Plouër in August 1766. Perhaps as a reaction to the ill-treatment of Acadians in the mother country, Pierre, wife Marguerite, daughters Marguerite and Francoise, and son Cyprien-Pierre, returned to England in March 1773!

Pierre's brother Cyprien, nephew Honoré le jeune, and the other Duons remained in the mother country. They did not remain at Morlaix, however. In 1765, they joined other Acadians on Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany, where they helped create an agricultural settlement on the rocky island. They did not coax much from the island's soil, but they did produce more children. Cyprien and wife Marguerite Landry had at least three more children at Bangor--Joseph born in April 1766, Jean-Pierre in March 1769, and Marie-Élisabeth in June 1771. Honoré le jeune and his wife also had more children at Bangor--Augustin-Marie born in June 1766, Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louis, called Jacques, in August 1768, Jean-Charles in June 1772, Philippe-Marie in June 1774, and Marie-Francoise in March 1777. The Duons also buried children on Belle-Île. Honoré le jeune's son Francois-Marie died at Le Palais at age 20 months in October 1765. Cyprien's daughter Marie died at Bangor, age 20, in October 1781. And the Duons celebrated at least one marriage. Honoré le jeune's daughter Marie married Antoine, son of Frenchman Jacques Maitrejean, at Bangor in June 1777; he was 26, and she was still in her teens.

By 1782, Honoré le jeune and his family had abandoned the settlement on Belle-Île and moved to the port city of Nantes. Son Robert-Francois was born in the suburb of Chantenay in February 1782 but died the following November, and another son, Louis-Désiré, died at Chantenay, age three weeks, in May 1784.

Not long after Honoré Duon le jeune moved from Belle-Île to Nantes, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana. Honoré le jeune and his wife, his sisters Élisabeth and Marguerite and their husbands, and Cyprien's son Joseph, agreed to take it. Honoré le jeune's daughter Marie, and brother Cyprien and the rest of his family, remained in France. Cyprien died near Bangor in 1798; he was 58 years old.

Meanwhile, in North America, the Duons who had escaped the roundup at Port-Royal found refuge at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where they celebrated a marriage. Claude-Amable married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Vincent of Pigiguit, at Miramichi in c1757; Marie-Josèphe was a sister of brother Honoré's wife Anne-Marie. But their stay at Miramichi proved to be short-lived. The place soon became so crowded with refugees that its limited resources could not support them all. Many Acadians there, including Honoré, Charles and Claude-Amable Duon, surrendered to the British in the late 1750s to avoid starvation. They ended up in prison camps in Nova Scotia. British officials counted the Duons at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, in 1762.

After the French and Indian War finally ended in 1763, the Acadians in New England and New York were allowed to leave. Abel dit Tibel Duon and his family returned to Old Acadia, but not to Minas; British officials in Nova Scotia refused to allow the Acadians to return to their old homes on the Fundy shore. Abel dit Tibel and his family chose Cap-Sable, where sister Jeanne had once lived. Youngest sister Rosalie, who had gone to New York with their widowed mother (who probably died in the English colony), ended up on the French Caribbean island of Martinique in the late 1760s. Rosalie married twice there, to Frenchmen Jean Landieu and Pierre Loustaneau, and there she remained.

The Duons still being held in Nova Scotia at war's end had a serious dilemma on their hands. The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article 14 that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories. In the case of the Acadians, however, this meant that they could return only to French soil. Port-Royal and Minas had not been French territory for over half a century. British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors. If Acadians chose to remain in Nova Scotia, they could live only in the interior of the peninsula in small family groups and work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New England "planters." If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation. They would also have to take the hated oath if they joined their cousins in Canada. After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided. Some Nova Scotia detainees chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-owned island off the southern coast of Newfoundland. Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies already had gone, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles. Whatever their choice, they would not remain in old Acadia. So the Duons gathered up what money they could and prepared to leave their beloved homeland.

LOUISIANA: RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Duons were among the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana. Three families headed by brothers, two of them married to sisters, reached New Orleans in 1765 from Halifax via St.-Domingue, today's Haiti. They settled in the Acadian community of Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the year before. So many Acadians settled there by end of the decade that the area became known as the Acadian Coast:

Honoré Duon of Port-Royal, age 49, came with wife Anne-Marie Vincent, age 52, and three children--Anne-Perpétué, called Perpétué, age 20, Jean, age 18, and Francois, age 16. They had no more children in Louisiana. Honoré died at Ascension, upriver from St.-Jacques, in January 1784; he was 69 years old. His two sons remained on the Acadian Coast, but one of his grandsons moved to the western prairies. Daughter Perpétué married Victor, son of fellow Acadian René Blanchard, at Ascension in February 1775 and settled on the western prairies.

Charles Duon, age 29, came with wife Marie-Josèphe Prejean, age 28, and two children--Jean-Baptiste, age 5, and Marguerite, age 1. They had more children in Louisiana. In the 1770s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the western prairies.

Claude-Amable Duon, age 27, came with wife Marie-Josèphe dit Josette Vincent, age 26, and orphan Francoise Pitre, age 1. Their children were born in Louisiana. In the 1770s, they followed his brother Charles to the western prairies.

Descendants of Jean DUHON (c1747-1805)

Jean, elder son of Honoré Duon and Anne-Marie Vincent, was born probably at Minas in c1747. With them he escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and fled to Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and with them he ended up as a prisoner of war at Halifax in the late 1750s. He followed them to Louisiana in 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, in May 1770. They settled at nearby Ascension, where they were counted on the right, or west, bank of the river soon after their marriage and again in 1777. Their daughters married into the Babin, Bertaud, Bourgeois, Dugas, Gautreaux, LeBlanc, and Savoie families. Jean died at St.-Jacques in November 1805; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean was 64 years old when he died, but he was closer to 58. Jean's younger brother's only son moved to the western prairies about the time of the Louisiana Purchase, so only Jean's line remained on the old Acadian Coast, in St. James and Ascension parishes. ...

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Older son Francois-Marie, baptized at St.-Jacques, age unrecorded, in June 1771, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Bourgeois probably at Ascension in the early 1790s. They must have lived near the boundary between Ascension and St.-Jacques. Their son Francois-Marie, fils was born at Ascension in July 1794, Joseph-Paul-Marcellin, called Marcellin, in September 1798 but died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 13, in July 1811, Simon-Colin, called Nicolas, was born at St.-Jacques in December 1802 but died near Convent, age 12, in May 1815, Onesime Séverin, called Séverin, was born near St. James in February 1805, and Joseph Ludger near Convent in July 1817. Their daughters married into the Bourgeois, Guidry, and Michel families. ...

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Francois Marie, fils married Marie Eugènie, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Michel, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1816. Their son Jean Simon was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in April 1817, and Francois Ludger in November 1818. Francois, fils remarried to Marie Reine, daughter of French Creole Alexis Rome, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in June 1821. They may have lived briefly on upper Bayou Lafourche soon after their marriage. Their son Onesime Séverin le jeune was born near Convent in February 1824. ...

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Séverin married Marie Sidalise, called Sidalise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Part, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1829. Their son Séverin Bienvenue was born near Convent in January 1830, Onesime in January 1837, and Joseph Thomssin in August 1838. ...

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Younger son Joseph, born at Ascension in March 1774, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Landry, at Ascension in February 1799. Their son Hortare Antoine was born at Ascension in February 1804, Joseph died 3 days after his birth in June 1806, an infant child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died in March 1807, Joseph Ursin was born in December 1810, and Jean Martin in February 1814. Their daughters married into the Breaux, Daigle, Landry, and LeBlanc families. Joseph died in Assumption Parish in September 1832; the priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph was 36 years old when he died, but he was 58!

Descendants of Francois DUHON (c1749-1789)

Francois, younger son of Honoré Duon and Anne-Marie Vincent, was born probably at Minas in c1749. With them he escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and fled to Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and with them he ended up as a prisoner of war at Halifax in the late 1750s. He followed them to Louisiana in 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques before moving upriver to Ascension, where Spanish officials counted him on the left, or east, bank of the river in 1770; he was a bachelor. He married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Abraham Landry dit Petit Abram, at Ascension in November 1772. In 1777, Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Bourg, Dugas, Foret, Hébert, Lee, Meaux, Monte, and Trahan families; several of them settled on the western prairies and another on upper Bayou Lafourche. Francois remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Darois, at Ascension in April 1786. Their daughter married into the Malbrough family and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Francois died at Ascension in November 1789; he was only 40 years old. His only son moved to the western prairies.

Joseph, called Joseph dit Petit, from his first wife, born at Ascension in January 1783, married Marie-Rose, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry, at either Ascension or Atakapas in c1801. They settled on the western prairies.

The next contingent of Acadian Duons to settle on the river did not reach Louisiana until 20 years after the first ones arrived. They came aboard one of the Seven Ships from France that reached New Orleans in 1785:

Honoré Duon le jeune, age 47, crossed on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, with wife Anne-Geneviève Trahan, age 47, and three sons--Augustin-Marie, age 20, Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louise, called Jacques, age 17, and Jean-Charles, age 13. Augustin married Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles LeBlanc, at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony on separate ships. Honoré le jeune and his sons did not settle on the Acadian Coast, on the prairies west of the Atchafalaya Basin, or in the upper Lafourche valley, where most of their fellow Acadians from France had gone. They chose, instead, the Islenos community of San Bernardo, now St. Bernard Parish, on the river below the city. Honoré le jeune, described by the priest who recorded his burial as a "resident of St. Bernard Parish of the Turn," died probably at San Bernardo in October 1796; the recording priest said that Honoré was 67 years old when he died, but he was only 59. Two of his three sons married and settled at San Bernardo or New Orleans, but one of his grandsons moved to the upper Bayou Lafourche valley by the 1810s. ...

Descendants of Augustin-Marie DUHON (1766-)

Augustin-Marie, eldest son of Honoré Duon le jeune and Anne-Geneviève Trahan, was born at Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in June 1766. He followed his parents to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He married Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles LeBlanc, at New Orleans in December 1785, soon after they reached the colony on separate ships. Marguerite, at native of St.-Servan, near St.-Malo, had crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships. They settled near their families at San Bernardo and also in New Orleans. One of his older sons moved to the upper Bayou Lafourche. ...

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Oldest son Louis, born at either San Bernardo or New Orleans in the late 1780s or early 1790s, married Adélaïde, daughter of French Creole Mathurin Ferlot, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in December 1814. ...

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Charles le jeune, born probably at San Bernardo in July 1799, ...

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Jean-Baptiste, born at either San Bernardo or New Orleans in March 1801, died in New Orleans, age 2 1/2, in October 1803.

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Jean, born at New Orleans in September 1803, ...

Descendants of Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louis DUHON (1768-)

Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louis, called Jacques, second son of Honoré Duon le jeune and Anne-Geneviève Trahan, was born at Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in August 1768. He followed his parents to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and settled with them at San Bernardo south of New Orleans. He married Anne Autran probably at New Orleans in the late 1780s. In 1812, an Honoré Duhon claimed land along Bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs in St. Bernard Parish; since his father had died in 1796, this probably was Honoré Jacques. ...

Pierre, born at either San Bernardo or New Orleans in c1786, died at New Orleans in September 1801. He was only 15 years old.

Jean-Charles DUHON (1772-1799)

Jean-Charles, called Charles, youngest son of Honoré Duon le jeune and Anne-Geneviève Trahan, was born at Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in June 1772. He followed his parents to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and settled with them at San Bernardo south of New Orleans. Jean-Charles died at New Orleans, still a bachelor, in September 1799; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean-Charles was 22 years old when he died, but he was 27.

Other DUHONs on the River

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Duhons on the river with known lines of the family:

Louise Duhon married Firmin Duplessis at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in August 1826. The priest who recorded the marriage did not bother to give the parents' names.

LOUISIANA: WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

By the mid-1770s, two Duhon brothers and a niece from the Acadian Coast had crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled in the Atakapas District, creating a western branch of the family. By the early 1800s, the Duhons on the prairies outnumbered their kinsmen on the river:

Anne-Perpétué, called Perpétué, daughter of Honoré Duon, and her husband Victor Blanchard followed her uncles Charles and Claude-Amable to the Atakapas District in the 1770s. Perpétué died at her home on the Vermilion, then in St. Martin Parish, in September 1817, in her early 70s.

Descendants of Charles DUHON (1734-)

Charles, ninth son of family progenitor Jean-Baptiste Duon dit Lyonnais and Agnès Hébert, was born at Port-Royal in May 1734. He escaped the British roundup in 1755 with his brothers Honoré and Claude-Amable and followed them to Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. With them, he ended up a prisoner of war in Nova Scotia, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Préjean, in c1759. He and his family were held at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, now Windsor, Nova Scotia, in the early 1760s. He followed his brothers to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. He and Marie-Josèphe had more children in Louisiana. Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1766 and again in 1769. In 1770, Spanish officials counted them on the west bank at nearby Ascension, but later in the decade he took his family across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Atakapas District, creating a western branch of the family with younger brother Claude-Amable. They settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion, today's downtown Lafayette. Their daughters married into the Dugas, Guidry, LeBlanc, and Montet families. Both of their sons settled in present-day Lafayette Parish.

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Older son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in Acadia in November 1759 during Le Grand Dérangement and baptized at New Orleans in December 1765, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Gautreaux, at Atakapas in c1782. Their son Jean-Baptiste, fils was born at Atakapas in January 1783, Joachim in April 1787, Joseph in October 1789, Pierre in February 1792, Charles Placide in August 1797, and Zephirin in February 1808. Their daughters married into the Barras, Guilbeau, LeBlanc, Sellers, and Thibodeaux families. Baptiste died in Lafayette Parish in April 1827; the priest who recorded his burial said that Baptiste was 78 years old when he died, but he was 67.

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Joseph married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadian Olidon Broussard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1810. Their son Joseph, fils was born on the Vermilion in October 1812, Ursin in October 1815, and Théodule in November 1825. Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in June 1827; he was only 37 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January.

Joseph, fils married cousin Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Onesime Olidon Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1839. ...

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Jean Baptiste, fils married Apollonie, called Pauline, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Broussard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July or August of 1812. Their son Jean Baptiste III was born on the Vermilion in September 1813. Jean Baptiste, fils died at his father's home on the upper Vermilion in April 1814; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Baptiste, fils was 29 years old when he died, but he was 31; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in May 1825, 11 years after his death.

Jean Baptiste III married Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Célestin Prejean, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1833. Their son Désiré was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 weeks, in December 1833, Jean Baptiste IV at age 6 weeks in December 1833, and Lucien at age 5 months in May 1837. ...

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Pierre died "at his sister's house" at La Pointe, on upper Bayou Teche, St. Martin Parish, in May 1821. The priest who recorded his burial said that Pierre was 24 years old when he died, but he was 29. He did not marry.

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Charles Placide married Marie Arsenne, called Arsenne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Guidry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1825. Their son Villior, perhaps also called Léon, was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in July 1832. Charles Placide died on "his plantation" in Lafayette Parish in January 1835; he was only 37 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January 1838.

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Zephirin married Clémence, another daughter of Joseph Guidry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in March 1829. A child, perhaps a son, name and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in April 1830, their son Charles le jeune was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 11 months, in March 1831 but died at age 6 in July 1837, Bélisaire was baptized at age 5 days in February 1832 but died the following month, Séverin, a twin, was baptized, age 7 months, in February 1833, and Zephirin, fils was born in January 1839. ...

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Younger son Charles, fils, also called Charles dit Charlitte, born at Ascension in March 1773, married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Claude Broussard of the lower Vermilion, at Atakapas in February 1800. Their son Charles Onesime or Onesime Charles was baptized at Atakapas, age 4 months, in May 1801, Dosité was born on the Vermilion in August 1805, and Aurelien in February 1809. Their daughter married into the Boudreaux and LeBlanc families. Charles, fils remarried to Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Broussard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1817. Their daughter married into the Montet family. Charles, fils's succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1821; he would have been 48 years old that year; in his daughter Denise's marriage record, dated 1 Oct 1821, Charles, fils is listed as deceased.

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Charles Onesime, by his first wife, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Joseph dit Gros Duhon, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1821. Their son Joseph was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 11 days, in November 1829 but died 3 days later, Placide was baptized at age 4 months in June 1832, Drosin at age 4 months in March 1836, and Onesime, fils at age 3 months in April 1839. ...

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Aurelien, by his first wife, married Ceralisse or Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1830. Their son Aurelien, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in May 1831, Émile was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 5 months, in May 1834, and Fergus at age 4 1/2 months in February 1840. ...

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Dosité, by his first wife, married Berthilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1831. Dosité died in Lafayette Parish in November 1832; the priest who recorded his burial said that Dosité was 24 years old when he died, but he was 27; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following January. Evidently he and his wife had no sons, so his line of the family died with him.

Descendants of Claude-Amable DUHON (1736-1811)

Claude-Amable, tenth and youngest son of family progenitor Jean-Baptiste Duon dit Lyonnais and Agnès Hébert, was born at Port-Royal in February 1736. With his older brothers Honoré and Charles, he escaped the British roundup in 1755 and followed them to Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where he married Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, daughter of Michel Vincent of Pigiguit, in c1757; Marie-Josèphe was the sister of his brother Honoré's wife Anne-Marie. Claude-Amable and Marie-Josèphe, along with his brothers, ended up as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia. He and his wife were held at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, now Windsor, Nova Scotia, in the early 1760s. He followed his brothers to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques. Spanish officials counted Claude-Amable and his family on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1766 and again in 1769. In 1770, Spanish officials counted them on the west bank at nearby Ascension, but later in the decade he took his family across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Atakapas District, creating a western branch of the family with older brother Charles. They settled near Charles and his family at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion. Clause Amable, called Amable dit Claude by the recording priest, died at his home on the Vermilion in December 1811; according to the priest, Amable was 87 years old when he died, but he was "only" 75. He had only one son, born on the river, but the son married twice and had many sons of his own in present-day Lafayette Parish.

Joseph-Firmin, called Firmin, born at Ascension in c1771, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Trahan, at Atakapas in July 1788. Their son Michel was born at Atakapas in September 1792, Charles le jeune in April 1794 but died at age 4 in May 1798, Joseph Firmin, fils, was born in November 1795, a son, name unrecorded, died 9 days after his birth in November 1800, Alexandre, also called Alexis, was born in November 1801, and Jean-Baptiste, also called Jean and Jean Firmin, in December 1803. They also had a son named Delphin or Delphi. Their daughters married into the Duhon, Gobelet or Goplet, Leger, Raulin, and Trahan families. Firmin remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Lucien Bourg, at Atakapas in February 1805. Their son Joseph Chevalier was born on the Vermilion in November 1810. Their daughters married into the Broussard family. Firmin filed a succession record at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1813. He died at his home on the upper Vermilion in June 1818; the priest who recorded his burial said that Firmin was "about 50 years" old when he died, but he was closer to 47; his final succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month. One of his sons by his first wife moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, but the others remained on the Vermilion.

Daughter Marie, by his first wife, gave birth to son Joseph Duhon at Atakapas in December 1805. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1811 did not give the father's name.

Michel, by his first wife, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Foret, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in April 1809. They settled on the upper Vermilion before moving to the upper Bayou Lafourche Valley in the 1810s. Michel remarried on the Lafourche in 1827.

Delphin, by his first wife, married distant cousin Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Athanase Trahan of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1813. Their son Alexis was born on the Vermilion in August 1815, Delphin, fils in November 1817, and Aurelien in February 1829. Their daughters married into the Bourg and Miller families. ...

Alexis married cousin Marie Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Julien Trahan, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1834. Their son Alexis, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age unrecorded, in January 1836, and Lasty at age 8 weeks in May 1838. ...

Delphin, fils married Marie Olive, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Bourg, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1837. Their son Francois was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 1 month, in January 1839. ...

Joseph Firmin, fils, by his first wife, married Marie Louise, called Louise, natural daughter of fellow Acadian Geneviève Theriot, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in July 1813. Their son Firmin Onesime, called Onesime, was born on the Vermilion in December 1814, David in August 1816, Joseph Biballier in January 1818, and a son, name unrecorded, died at age 15 days in October 1819. Joseph Firmin, fils remarried to distant cousin Marie Isabelle or Élisabeth, called Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Trahan, at the St. Martinville church in May 1820; Isabelle's mother, also, was a Trahan. Their son Rosémond was born on the Vermilion, then still in St. Martin Parish, in February 1821, and Pierre in Lafayette Parish in June 1823. ...

Onesime, by his first wife, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Trahan in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1835. ...

Joseph Biballier, by his first wife, married Élisabeth, daughter of French Creole Noël Vasseur, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in June 1837. ...

Alexandre, by his first wife, married Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Hippolyte Savoie of Grand Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1819. Their son Alexandre, fils was born on the Vermilion in February 1820, Désiré in June 1828, Leufroi was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 7 months, in January 1832, Norbert at age 1 in September 1834, Alix at age 3 months in June 1836, and Clémile was born in January 1838. ...

Jean Firmin, by his first wife, married cousin Marie Dulcine or Lucinde, daughter of Joseph dit Petit Duhon of Vermilion, probably in Lafayette Parish in the mid- or late 1820s. Their son Joseph le jeune was born in St. Martin Parish in April 1833, and Jean Baptiste in Lafayette Parish in December 1837. ...

Joseph Chevalier, by his second wife, married Marie Célesie or Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Bourg, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1829. Their son Léoville was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1839. ...

In 1785, three Acadian Duons came to Louisiana from France and settled not on the river or on the upper Lafourche but on the western prairies:

Marguerite Duon, age 44, crossed with husband Pierre Trahan, age 48, and six daughters, ages 23 to 8, on Le St.-Remi, the fourth of the Seven Ships.

Elisabeth, or Isabelle, Duon, age 42, widow of Alexandre Aucoin and Marguerite's sister, crossed on L'Amitie, the fifth of the Seven Ships, with seven daughters, ages 24 to 7. Isabelle never remarried. She died at the home of her of son-in-law, Jean-Baptiste Simon, husband of daughter Marie-Madeleine Aucoin, on the Vermilion, then in St. Martin Parish, in September 1817, in her early 70s.

Joseph Duon, age 19, crossed alone on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships.

Descendants of Joseph dit Gros DUHON (1766-)

Joseph, called Joseph dit Gros, son of Cyprien Duon and Marguerite Landry and nephew of Charles and Claude-Amable, born at Le Palais, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in April 1766, sailed to Louisiana aboard La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, in 1785, and traveled alone. He had been a plowman in France. After a short respite in New Orleans, he chose to go to the Atakapas District, where he married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Hébert, in February 1791. They settled at Grand Prairie on the upper Vermilion near his uncles and created a large line of the family. Their daughters married into the Broussard, Duhon, and Lapointe families. His neighbors called him Joseph dit Gros, or Big Joseph, to distinguish him from a younger cousin also named Joseph, whom they called Joseph dit Petit, or Little Joseph. He had nine sons, most of whom created families of their own in Lafayette Parish.

1

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Atakapas in March 1792, probably died young.

2

Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Grand Prairie in June 1801, married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Trahan, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1820. Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age unrecorded, in February 1823. Their daughter married into the Vincent family. ...

Jean Baptiste, fils married Eugènie, daughter of fellow Acadian Célestin Landry, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1839. ...

3

Cyprien, born probably at Grand Prairie in June 1803, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Granger, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1820. Their son Jean Serazin was born in St. Martin Parish in January 1821, Joseph Camille was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 11 months, in September 1826, and Clairville was born in April 1828. Their daughter married into the Faulk family. ...

4

Dosité, baptized at the home of Widow Baptiste Cormier at Grand Prairie, age 1, in July 1809, married Eugènie, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Cormier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in November 1825. Their son Francois Paulfile was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1831, Drosin in March 1836, and Dosité, fils in July 1839. ...

5

Onesime, born on the Vermilion in February 1810, died from an accidental coup de fusil, or firing of a shotgun, in Lafayette Parish in November 1828. He was only 18 1/2 years old. He did not marry.

6

Placide, born on the Vermilion in February 1812, married cousin Marie Doralise, daughter of Joseph dit Petit Duhon, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1833. Their son Placice, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in September 1834, and Joseph le jeune in December 1835. ...

7

Julien, born on the Vermilion in January 1814, married distant cousin Maximilienne, daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1834. ...

8

A son, name unrecorded, died at his parents' home on the Vermilion 7 days after his birth in July 1816.

9

Youngest son Joseph, fils, the second of that name, baptized at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, age 3 months, in July 1818, married Émelie, called Melite, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Cormier, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in May 1835. Their child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded died 10 days after its birth in July 1836, Joseph III was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in December 1837, and Julien le jeune at age 4 months in April 1840. ...

About the time of the Louisiana Purchase, a Duhon cousin from the Acadian Coast settled on the western prairies:

Descendants of Joseph dit Petit DUHON (1783-1829)

Joseph, called Joseph dit Petit, only son of Francois Duhon and Élisabeth or Isabelle Landry, born at Ascension on the river in January 1783, married Marie-Rose, called Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry, at either Ascension or Atakapas in c1801. They joined his sisters and cousins on the western prairies and settled on the lower Vermilion. Their daughters married into the Broussard, Duhon, and Trahan families. His neighbors called him Joseph dit Petit, or Little Joseph, to distinguish him from an older cousin also named Joseph, whom they called Joseph dit Gros, or Big Joseph. Joseph dit Petit filed a succession record at the St. Martinville courthouse in December 1820, indicating that his first wife had died by then. He remarried to Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Broussard of Vermilion, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1821, and remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Pepin Hébert, père and widow of Benjamin Broussard, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in January 1824. Joseph dit Petit died in Lafayette Parish in October 1829; the priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph was 51 years old when he died, but he was only 46; his succession records were filed at the Vermilionville courthouse that month and the following June.

1

Older son Agricole, by his first wife, born at Atakapas in July 1803, married cousin Marguerite Anastasie or Aspasie, daughter of Firmin Duhon of Grand Prairie, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1821. ...

2

Younger son Joseph Denis, by his first wife, born on the Vermilion in March 1815, married Marie Eurasie, daughter of French Creole Charles Baudoin, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1838; Marie's mother was a Mouton. Their son Joseph was born in Lafayette Parish in August 1839. ...

LOUISIANA: LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

By the 1810s, a Duhon from the western prairies settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a small, third center of family settlement:

Descendants of Michel DUGAS (1792-1833)

Michel, eldest son of Joseph Firmin Duhon and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Trahan, born at Atakapas in September 1792, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Foret, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in April 1809. They settled at first on the upper Vermilion but moved to the upper Bayou Lafourche Valley by the mid-1810s. Their daughter Geneviève Célesie, called Célesie Geneviève by the recording priest, gave birth to son Adrien Rosémond in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1834. The priest who recorded the boy's baptism did not give the father's name. Geneviève Célesie married Francois Marie, son of fellow Acadian Blaise Julien Boudreaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1835. One wonders if Francois Marie was Adrien Rosémond's father. Another daughter married into the Forgi family. Michel remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Benjamin Hilaire Boudreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1827. Michel died in Assumption Parish in April 1833; the priest who recorded his burial said that Michel was 55 years old when he died, but he was only 40.

1

Oldest son Michel Dosité, by his first wife, born on the upper Vermilion in February 1810, died at his parents' home the following May.

2

Elias Firmin, called Helie, from his first wife, born in Assumption Parish in September 1815, died in Assumption Parish at age 5 in September 1820.

3

Jean, by his first wife, born in Assumption Parish in November 1820, died at age 9 months in August 1821.

4

Joseph Michel, by his first wife, born in Assumption Parish in January 1823, ...

5

Francois, by his first wife, died in Assumption Parish at age 3 months in October 1825.

6

Youngest son son Paul Firmin, by his second wife, born posthumously in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 183[3], ...

Other DUHONs in the Lafourche Valley

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link some Duhons in the Bayou Lafourche valley with known lines of the family: Joseph Julien Duhon married Rosalie Comeaux. Their son Clément Constant married Juliette, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry, in the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1839. One wonders if these were Duhons.

CONCLUSION

All of the Duhons of South Louisiana are descendants of Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais. The first of them--three brothers from the prisoner of war compounds in Nova Scotia--came to Louisiana in late 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques and Ascension on what became the Acadian Coast. A dozen years later, the two younger brothers moved from the river to the western prairies and settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion near what is now downtown Lafayette. In 1785, a nephew from France went directly to Grand Prairie to settle near his uncles and created a large line of the family. Another nephew also came from France in 1785, but he took his family to San Bernardo, now St. Bernard Parish, on the river below New Orleans, where two of his sons created families of their own. About the time of the Louisiana Purchase, one of the two family lines remaining on the Acadian Coast also moved to the Vermilion valley. As a result of these migrations, the largest center of Duhon family settlement shifted eastward from the river to what became Lafayette Parish, and there it remained. In the 1810s, a Duhon from the prairies settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but this third locus of family settlement remained small compared to the other two. ...

In Louisiana, the family's named evolved from Duon to Duhon. The family's name also is spelled D'Eon, D'Huan, D'Huon, Douhone, Duan, Duant, Duhan, Duhans, Dujon, Duons, Duyon.

Sources: Arsenault, Généalogie, 535-37, 1158-59, 2335, 2481-86; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.); Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 125-26, 560; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3; NOAR, vols. 2, 4, 6, 7; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 65-66; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 309-10; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 66-67, 164-65; White, DGFA-1, 581-84; White, DGFA-1 English, 125.

Settlement Abbreviations

(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

Asc Ascension
Lf Lafourche (Lafourche, Terrebonne)
PCP Pointe Coupée
Asp Assumption
Natc Natchitoches (Natchitoches)
SB San Bernardo (St. Bernard)
Atk Atakapas (St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion)
Natz San Luìs de Natchez (Concordia)
StG St.-Gabriel d'Iberville (Iberville)
BdE Bayou des Écores (East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana)
NO New Orleans (Orleans)
StJ St.-Jacques de Cabanocé (St. James)
BR Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge)
Op Opelousas (St. Landry, Calcasieu)

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community.

Name Arrived Settled Profile

Anne-Perpétué DUHON 01 1765 StJ, Asc, Atk
born c1745, probably Port-Royal; called Perpétué; daughter of Honoré DUHON & Anne-Marie VINCENT; sister of Francois & Jean, niece of Charles & Claude-Amable; arrived LA 1765, age 20; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, called Perpétué, age 21, with parents & brothers; in Cabanocé census, 1769, right [west] bank, called Perpétué, age 24, with parents; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, called Perpétué, age 24, with parents; married, age 30, Victor BLANCHARD, son of René BLANCHARD & Isabelle COMEAUX, 13 Feb 1775, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; moved to Atakapas District; in Atakapas census, 1777, age 25[sic], with husband & no children; in Atakapas census, 1781, unnamed, with husband & 1 other; died at her home on upper Vermilion, St. Martin Parish, 15 Sep 1817, age "about 72[sic]," buried next day in "parish cemetery" succession record dated Nov 1818, St. Martin Parish courthouse

Augustin-Marie DUHON 02 Nov 1785 SB
born & baptized 20 Jun 1766, Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France; son of Honoré DUHON le jeune & Anne-Geneviève TRAHAN; brother of Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louis & Jean-Charles; sailor; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & brothers; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 20; married, age 20, Marguerite-Geneviève LEBLANC of St.-Servan, France, daughter of Charles LEBLANC & his second wife Marie-Madeleine GAUTREAUX, 4 Dec 1785, New Orleans, soon after they reached LA on separate ships

Charles DUHON 03 1765 StJ, Asc, Atk
born 29 May 1734, baptized 30 May 1734, Port-Royal; son of Jean-Baptiste DUHON dit Lyonnais & Agnès HÉBERT; brother of Claude-Amable & Honoré l'aîné; married, age 25, Marie-Josèphe PRÉJEAN, daughter of Charles PRÉJEAN & Francoise BOUDREAUX, c1759, Acadia; at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, Oct 1762; arrived LA 1765, age 31; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, JUDICE's Company, Cabanocé Militia, called Carlos & Charles-Claude DUYON, age 30[sic], with wife Marie age 26, son Jean-Baptiste age 6, & daughter Marguerite age 2, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 cattle, 0 sheep, 2 hogs, 1 gun; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 38, right [west] bank, called Charles DUAN, age 35, with wife Marie age 33, sons Jean-Baptiste age 9, Michel age 10 mos., & daughter Margueritte age 5; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, called Charles D'HUAN, age 36, head of family number 7, with wife Marie-Joseph age 34, sons Jean-Baptiste age 10, Michel age 2, daughter Margueritte age 6, & 6 arpents; moved to Atakapas District, settled Grand Prairie on upper Vermilion; in Atakapas census, 1777, called Charle DUON, age 48, head of family number 98, with wife Marie-Josèphe age 40, sons Baptiste age 14, Michel age 9, Charle age 5, daughters Marguerite age 12, Marie-Rose age 6, & Magdeleine age 2, 0 slaves, 35 cattle, 5 horses, 6 hogs, 0 sheep; in Atakapas census, 1781, called Charles DUONS, with 7 individuals, 80 animals, no arpents listed; in Atakapas census, 1785, called Ch DUHON, with 6 free individuals, 0 slaves; on Atakapas militia list, Aug 1789, called Carlos DUHON

Claude-Amable DUHON 04 1765 StJ, Asc, Atk
born & baptized 16 Feb 1736, Port-Royal; sometimes called Amable; son of Jean-Baptiste DUHON dit Lyonnais & Agnès HÉBERT; brother of Charles & Honoré l'aîné; married, age 21, Marie-Josèphe VINCENT, daughter of Michel VINCENT & Anne-Marie DOIRON of Pigiguit, & sister of brother Honore's wife Anne-Marie, Miramichi, c1757; at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, Jul, Oct 1762; arrived LA 1765, age 27; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, JUDICE's Company, Cabanoce Militia, called Claudio DUYON, age 28, with wife Marie age 27, & orphan Paul DUYON [probably JEANSONNE] age 12, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 cattle, 0 sheep, 1 hog, 2 guns; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 39, right [west] bank, called Claude DUAN, age 32, with Marie-Josèphe age 38, & orphan Paul JEANTONNE [JEANSONNE] age 14; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, called Claude D'HUAN, age 34, head of family number 8, with wife Marie-Josèph age 39, niece Francoise SPITRE [PITRE] age 6, & 6 arpents; moved to Atakapas District, settled Grand Prairie on upper Vermilion; in Atakapas census, 1777, called Claude DUON, age 45[sic], head of family number 97, with wife Josephe BLANCHARD[sic] age 40, son Firmin age 6, & orphan [niece] Francoise Nord-este(sic) [PITRE] age 12, 0 slaves, 20 cattle, 4 horses, 6 hogs, 0 sheep; in Atakapas census, 1781, called Claude DUONS, with 4 unnamed individuals, 76 animals, no arpents listed; in Atakapas census, 1785, with 3 unnamed free individuals, 1 male slave; died "at his home" on upper Vermilion, St. Martin Parish, 13 Dec 1811, age 87[sic], buried same day "in the parish cemetery"

Élisabeth/Isabelle DUHON 05 Nov 1785 Atk
born 21 May 1743, Rivière-aux-Canards; daughter of Jean-Baptiste DUHON & Madeleine VINCENT; sister of Honoré le jeune & Marguerite, niece of Charles, Claude-Amable, & Honoré l'aîné; exiled to VA 1755, age 12; deported to England 1756, age 13; married, age 16, Alexandre AUCOIN, son of Alexis AUCOIN & Anne-Marie BOURG, & widower of Marie TRAHAN, 22 Oct 1759, Liverpool, England; repatriated from Liverpool to Ploujean, Morlaix, France, 1763; at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, Nov 1765, age 23; Family No. 66 at Loqueltoe, Sauzon, Belle-Île-en-Mer; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, called Elisabeth DUHON, widow Alexandre AUCOIN, with 7 unnamed daughters; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 43, widow, head of family; died "at her son-in-law, Jean Baptiste SIMON, at Vermilion," St. Martin Parish, 5 Sep 1817, "at age about 67[sic] years," a widow, buried next day "in the parish cemetery"

Francois DUHON 06 1765 StJ, Asc
born c1749, probably Port-Royal; son of Honoré DUHON & Anne-Marie VINCENT; brother of Anne-Perpétué & Jean, nephew of Charles & Claude-Amable; arrived LA 1765, age 16; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, JUDICE's Company, Cabanocé Militia, called Inage DUYON, age 17, with parents & siblings; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 136, left [east] bank, called Francois DOUAN, age 21, listed singly so a bachelor; in Ascension census, 1770, left [east] bank, called Francois D'HUAN, age 21, head of "family" number 53, listed singly so still a bachelor, with 6 arpents; married, age 23, (1)Élisabeth/Isabelle LANDRY, daughter of Abraham LANDRY dit Petit Abram & his second wife Marguerite FLAN, 2 Nov 1772, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, called Francois DUHAN, age 28, with wife Isabel age 22, daughters Adélaïde age 2, Isabel age 4 mos., 7 arpents next to brother Jean, 0 slaves 9 cattle, 2 horses, 0 sheep, 3 swine, 2 arms; in JUDICE's Company, Acadian Coast Militia, Aug 1779, called Francois DUHANS, fusileer; married, age 37, (2)Élisabeth/Isabelle DAROIS, daughter of Étienne DAROIS & Madeleine TRAHAN, 19 Apr 1786, Ascension; died [buried] Ascension 23 Nov 1789, age 40

Honoré DUHON l'aîné 07 1765 StJ, Asc
born 24 Jul 1716, baptized 26 Jul 1716, Port-Royal; son of Jean-Baptiste DUHON dit Lyonnais & Agnès HÉBERT; brother of Charles & Claude-Amable; married, age 26, Anne-Marie VINCENT, called Marie, daughter of Michel VINCENT & Anne-Marie DOIRON of Pigiguit, & sister of brother Claude-Amable's wife Marie-Josèphe, c1742, probably Port-Royal; at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, Jul, Oct 1762; arrived LA 1765, age 49; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, JUDICE's Company, called Honozar DUYON, age 50, with wife Marie age 53, sons Jean[-Baptiste] age 19, Francois age 17, & daughter [Anne-]Perpétué age 21, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 cattle, 0 sheep, 0 hogs, 2 guns; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 40, right [west] bank, age 54, with wife Marie age 56, & daughter Perpétué age 24; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, age 55, head of family number 9, with wife Marie age 57, daughter Perpétué age 24, & 6 arpents; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, age 61, with wife & family of son Jean; died [buried] Ascension 1 Jan 1784, age 69

Honoré DUHON le jeune 08 Nov 1785 SB
born 16 Nov 1737, Rivière-aux-Canards; son of Jean-Baptiste DUHON & Madeleine VINCENT; brother of Élisabeth/Isabelle & Marguerite, nephew of Charles, Claude-Amable, & Honoré; exiled to VA 1755, age 18; deported to England 1756, age 19; married, age 21, Anne-Geneviève TRAHAN, daughter of Francois TRAHAN & Angélique MELANÇON, 14 Oct 1758, Liverpool, England; repatriated from Liverpool to Morlaix, France, 1763, age 26; carpenter; at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, Nov 1765, age 29; Family No. 57 at Martha, Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, with wife & 4 unnamed sons; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 47, head of family; died [buried] San Bernardo 4 Oct 1796, age 67[sic]

Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louis DUHON 09 Nov 1785 SB
born 25 Aug 1768, baptized next day, Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France; called Jacques; son of Honoré DUHON le jeune & Anne-Geneviève TRAHAN; brother of Augustin-Marie & Jean-Charles; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & brothers; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 17

Jean DUHON 10 1765 StJ, Asc, StJ
born c1747, probably Port-Royal; son of Honoré DUHON & Anne-Marie VINCENT; brother of Anne-Perpétué & Francois, nephew of Charles & Claude-Amable; arrived LA 1765, age 18; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, called Jean, age 19, with parents & siblings, 4 arpents & 1 gun; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 41, right [west] bank, called Jean, age 23, listed singly so probably still a bachelor; married, age 23, Anne LEBLANC, daughter of Joseph LEBLANC & Isabelle GAUDET, 28 May 1770, St.-Jacques; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, called Jean, age 23, head of family number 10, with wife Anne age 23, & no children; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, called Jean, age 30, head of family number 9, with wife Anne age 30, son Francois age 6, daughters Anne age 6, Marie age 1, father Honnorré age 61, mother Marie age 64, 6 arpents next to brother Francois, 1 slave, 28 cattle, 4 horses, 0 sheep, 8 swine, 2 arms; in St.-Jacques census, 1779, called Jean DUHANT, with 9 whites, 2 slaves, 4 qts. rice, 30 qts. corn; died [buried] St.-Jacques 17 Nov 1805, age 64[sic]

Jean-Baptiste DUHON 11 1765 StJ, Asc, Atk
born 10 Nov 1759, Acadia, baptized 1 Dec 1765, New Orleans; called Baptiste; son of Charles DUHON & Marie-Josèphe PREJEAN; brother of Marguerite, nephew of Claude-Amable & Honoré l'aîné; arrived LA 1765, age 6; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, age 6, with parents & sister; in Cabanocé census, 1769, right [west] bank, age 9, with parents & siblings; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, age 10, with parents & siblings; moved to Atakapas District; in Atakapas census, 1777, called Baptiste, age 14[sic], with parents & siblings; in Atakapas census, 1781, unnamed, with parents & others; married, age 22, Marie-Josèphe GAUTREAUX, daughter of Pierre GAUTREAUX & Louise THIBODEAUX, c1782, Atakapas, now St. Martinville; in Atakapas census, 1785, called B DUHON, with 4 free individuals, 0 slaves; on Atakapas militia list, Aug 1789, called Batisto DUJON; died Lafayette Parish 2 p.m., 14 Apr 1827, age 78[sic], buried next day "in the church cemetery"

Jean-Baptiste DUHON 12 Aug 1785 BR
born c1760; plowman; sailed to LA on Le Beaumont, age 25, listed singly

Jean-Charles DUHON 13 Nov 1785 SB
born 26 Jun 1772, baptized next day, Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France; called Charles; son of Honoré DUHON & Anne-Geneviève TRAHAN; brother of Augustin-Marie & Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louis; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & brothers; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 13; never married; died [buried] San Bernardo 24 Sep 1799, age 22[sic]

Joseph dit Gros DUHON 14 Dec 1785 Atk
born & baptized 11 Apr 1766, Le Palais, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France; son of Cyprien DUHON & Marguerite LANDRY; nephew of Charles, Claude-Amable, & Honoré l'aîné; plowman; sailed to LA on La Caroline, age 19, listed singly; settled Grand Prairie, Atakapas District; on Atakapas militia list, Aug 1789, called Josef; married, age 25, Scholastique HÉBERT, daughter of Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT & Théotiste HÉBERT, 2 Feb 1791, Atakapas, now St. Martinville

Marguerite DUHON 15 1765 StJ, Asc, Atk
born 6 Feb 1764, Acadia, baptized 1 Dec 1765, New Orleans; daughter of Charles DUHON & Marie-Josèphe PRÉJEAN; sister of Jean-Baptiste, niece of Claude-Amable & Honoré l'aîné; arrived LA 1765, age 1 1/2; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, age 2, with parents & brother; in Cabanocé census, 1769, right [west] bank, age 5, with parents & brothers; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, age 6, with parents & brothers; moved to Atakapas District; in Atakapas census, 1777, age 12, with parents & siblings; in Atakapas census, 1781, unnamed, with parents & others; married, age 20, Josine LEBLANC, son of Jean-Pierre LEBLANC & Osite MELANCON, 10 Aug 1784, Atakapas, now St. Martinville; in Atakapas census, 1785, unnamed, with husband

Marguerite DUHON 16 Sep 1785 Atk
born c1741, probably Minas; daughter of Jean-Baptiste DUHON & Madeleine VINCENT; sister of Élisabeth/Isabelle & Honoré le jeune, niece of Charles, Claude-Amable, & Honoré l'aîné; exiled to VA 1755, age 14; deported to England 1756, age 15; married, age 17, Pierre TRAHAN, son of Pierre TRAHAN & Jeanne DAIGLE of Pigiguit, 8 May 1758, Liverpool, England; repatriated to Morlaix, France, 1763, age 22; at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, 1767-77; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, with husband, 2 unnamed sons, & 6 unnamed daughters; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 44

NOTES

01. Wall of Names, 16, calls her Perpétué DUON; BRDR, 2:101, 262 (ASC-1, 129), her marriage record, calls her Anne-Perpétué DUHAM (DUHON), says they married on 13 Feb 1775, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says they all were Acadians, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Étienne LEBLANC, Athanas TRAHAN, & Maturin LEBLANC; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:67, 284 (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-4 1/2-78), another marriage record, calls her Perpétué DUHON, says she married Victor BLANCHARD on 22 Sep 1786, but does not give their parents' names or any witnesses to her marriage, Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:331 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1128), her death/burial record, calls her Anne Perpétué DUHON, spouse of Victor BLANCHARD, "inhabitant at Vermillion," says she died "at age about 72 years at her home," that she was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:336 (SMCt.Hse.: Succ.#310), her succession record, calls her Perpétué DUHON m. Victor BLANCHARD, but does not give her parents' names. See also De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 15.

Why are there conflicting dates for their marriage? The earlier, church record is followed here.

02. Wall of Names, 41, calls him Augustin DUHON; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 125, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Augustin-Marie DUHON, gives his parents' names, & says his godparents were Augustin LEBESCONS & Cécile TRAHAN; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 62-63, under Lista parcial de vientitres casamientos acadianos arregalados par Navarro, 20 novembre 1785 [Partial List of 23 marriages Navarro arranged on 20 November 1785], A. Marriages celebrated on 20 November 1785, calls him Agustin DOUAN (son of Honorato DOUAN & Ana TRAHAM)/Augustin DUHON (son of Honoré DUHON & Anne TRAHAN, says he was in the 62nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi, &, calling him Agustin DUN [DUHON] of Berilamer [Belle-Île-en-Mer], details his marriage, calls his wife Margarita LEBLANC of St.-Malo, & gives his & her parents' names; NOAR, 4:109, 186 (SLC, M5, 42), his marriage record, calls him Agustin DUN, says his wife was native of St.-Malo, gives his & her parents' names, calls his mother Ana DUN, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Vicente LLORCA & Josef MARTINEZ.

His wife crossed from France on Le St.-Rémi, the ship just before his. They probably knew one another in France. According to a notation in Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 62-63, she died in a hospital in New Orleans soon after their marriage, but this is not so. For details, see the footnote for her profile.

03. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Charles DUON; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2481, says he was born in 1734. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 164; De Ville, Southwest LA. Families, 1777, 15.

His middle name is from the Cabanocé census of 1766.

04. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Claude DUON, & lists him with his wife & his niece Francoise PITRE; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2482, calls him Claude-Amable DUON, says he was born in 1736 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says they were married at Miramichi, in today's New Brunswick, in c1757, that he was in Martinique & reached LA in 1766, that in 1769 he occupied lot number 39 on the west bank of the Mississippi at St.-Jacques, that orphan Paul DUON, born in 1754, lived with him, & that his children were Firmin, born in c1766, & Joseph in c1768 but gives no birthplaces; White, DGFA-1, 583, calls him Claude-Amable [DUON], gives his parents' names, details his birth & baptism, says his godparents were Simon LELBANC & Francoise BOURGEOIS, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says that, according to the testimony of the Acadians at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, he married her at Miramichi in c1757, says he was counted at Cabahannocer [St.-Jacques] in 1766, age 28, & in 1769, age 32, at Ascension in 1770, age 34, at Vermilion in 1803, age 71(sic), & that he was buried at St.-Martinville on 14 Dec 1811, age 87 (sic); Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:331 (SM Ch.: v.4, #742), his death/burial record, calls him Amable dit Claude DUHON, "inhabitant at Vermillion, a native of Acadie," says he died "at age 87 years at his home," that he was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 165; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 15.

White says nothing of his being at Martinique before he reached LA, so Arsenault's notation is ignored here. His youngest sister Rosalie, who had been exiled to New York with his widowed mother in 1755, was counted at Champflore, Martinique, in 1766 and remarried on the island in Jan 1770. See White, DGFA-1, 584.

His appearance in the Cabanocé census of Apr 1766 means he reached LA in 1765. Note that he stood as godfather for his niece Marguerite DUHON, daughter of brother Charles, at New Orleans on 1 Dec 1765. See NOAR, 2:105 (SLC, B5, 108).

The orphan who lived with him at Cabanocé in 1769 was probably Paul JEANSONNE, not Paul DUHON.

Despite Arsenault's claim, Claude & his wife had only a single son, Joseph-Firmin, born at Ascension in c1771.

05. Wall of Names, 42, calls her Élisabeth DUHON veuve AU COIN; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 554; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 2; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:333 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1126), her death/burial record, calls her Isabelle DUHON, native of Acadie, wid. of Alexandre AUCOIN, "inhabitant at Vermillion,", says she died "at age about 67 years at her son-in-law, Jean Baptiste SIMON, at Vermillion," that she was buried "in the parish cemetery," but does not give her parents' names. .

06. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Francois DUON; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2483, says he & his first wife were married c1770; BRDR, 2:263, 422 (ASC-1, 121), record of his first marriage, calls him Francois DUHAM (DUHON), gives his & his wife's parents' names, says both sets of parents were Acadians, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Mathieu LANDRY & Joseph LANDRY; BRDR, 2:223, 263 (ASC-2, 1), the record of his second marriage, calls him Francois DUHON, does not give his or his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Esteban DAROIS (the bride's father) & Abraham SANCHES; BRDR, 2:262 (ASC-4, 5, #10), his death/burial record, calls him Francisco DUHON, age 40 years, & does not give his parents' or wives' names.

07. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Honoré DUON; White, DGFA-1, 582.

08. Wall of Names, 41, calls him Honnoré DUHON; NOAR, 6:104 (SLC, F4, 37), his death/burial record, calls him Honorato DUHON, native of Acadia, resident of St. Bernard Parish of the Turn, 67 yr., sp. Ana TRAHAN, but does not give his parents' names. See also Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 560.

09. Wall of Names, 41, calls him Jacques DUHON; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 125, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Honoré-Jacques-Marie-Louis DUHON, gives his parents' names, & says his godparents were Jacques AUBERT & Élizabeth DETAILLES.

10. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Jean DUON; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2481, 2482, calls him Jean-Baptiste; BRDR, 2:263, 460 (SJA-1, 42a), his marriage record, calls him Jean DUHON, "Acadian by nationality," says his wife also was "Acadian by nationality," gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Honoré TRAHAN & Simon LEBLANC; BRDR, 3:293 (SJA-4, 27), his death/burial record, calls him Jean DUHON, age 64 yrs., husband of Anne LEBLANC, & gives his parents' names. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 165, 174; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 1, 10.

Wall of Names, his marriage & burial records, & the censuses in which he is found call him simply Jean, so he may not have had a middle name despite what Arsenault says.

11. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Jean-Baptiste DUON; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2483, calls his wife Marie-Josephine, & says she was the daughter of Charles GAUTREAUX & Louise THIBODEAUX; NOAR, 2:105 (SLC, B5, 108), his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Baptise DUHAN, does not give his birthplace, gives his parents' names, & says his godparents were Pierre BLANCHARD & Josèphe VINCENT; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:262-63 (Laf.Ch.: v.2, p.40, #116), his death/burial record, calls him Baptiste DUHON, spouse of Marie GAUTREAUX, says he died "at age 78 years," & was buried "in the church cemetery," but does not give his parents' names.

His baptismal record gives an idea of when his family reached New Orleans--probably on one of the last of the 1765 ships from Halifax via St.-Domingue, perhaps one that arrived in Nov.

Wall of Names does not list a Marie-Josephine GAUTREAUX. The only Charles GAUTREAUXs who came to LA arrived in 1785. None of them was married to Louise THIBODEAUX. He probably meant Marie-Josèphe GAUTREAUX, who, according to Wall of Names, 17, was daughter of Pierre GAUTREAUX & Louise THIBODEAUX.

12. Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean-Baptiste DUHON, & lists him singly; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, calls him Jean-Baptiste DUHON, garçon, laboureur, age 25, on the embarkation list, Juan Bautista DOUHONE, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste DUHON, young man, plowman, age 25, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 42nd "Family" aboard Le Beaumont with no one else.

How was he kin to the other DUHONs who came to LA? I have found him in none of Robichaux's volumes on the Acadians in France. One wonders if he actually existed. Despite what is found in Wall of Names & Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, cited above, he actually may be Jean-Baptiste DOIRON, who missed the ship his family took to LA in 1785--Le Beaumont--& took, instead, La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships. Jean-Baptiste DOIRON also was 25 years old in 1785. I will acknowledge the existence of this Jean-Baptiste DUHON when I find him in a LA record.

13. Wall of Names, 41, calls him Jean-Charles DUHON; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 125, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Charles DUHON, gives his parents' names, but does not give his godparents' names; NOAR, 6:104 (SLC, F4, 79), his death/burial record, calls him Carlos DUHON, native of France, 22 yr., bachelor, & calls his parents Honorato [DUHON] & Ana OTRAND.

14. Wall of Names, 47, calls him Joseph DUHON, & lists him singly; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 125, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph DUHON, gives his parents' names, & says his godparents were René TRAHAN & Marie-Catherine LELUC; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:282-83, 418 (SM Ch.: Marriage Investigation: Folio C, #8; SM Ch.: v.4, #52), his marriage record, calls him Joseph DUHON, of Belisle en Mer & "Belle Isle en Mer, in Bengor parish," says his wife was "of Maurepas, bt. in Attakapas" & "of Acadie," gives his & her parents' names, says he was 25 yrs. old & she was 15 yrs. old, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Charles DUHON "of this parish, uncle of Joseph HÉBERT, an orphan, Louis TRAHAN, Athanase HÉBERT, Félix LOPES or LOPEZ, Charles HÉBERT, Charles DUHON [his uncle], & Claude DUHON [his uncle].

His dit is from his children's marriage records in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 2-B. Evidently his neighbors used the dit to distinguish him from a cousin also named Joseph DUHON, who was called Petit.

15. Wall of Names, 16, calls her Marguerite DUON; NOAR, 2:105 (SLC, B5, 108), her birth/baptismal record, calls her Margueritte DUHAN, does not give her birthplace, gives her parents' names, & says her godparents were Claude DUHAN [her uncle] & Anne MARTIN.

16. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Marguerite DUHON, & lists her with her husband & 6 children; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2603, her husband's profile in the LA section, calls her Marguerite DUON, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including place & date, says her family was at Morlaix in 1764 & at Belle-Île-en-Mer from 1767-77, & lists her children as Marie-Élizabeth [TRAHAN], born in 1759 but gives no birthplace, Geneviève [TRAHAN], born in 1762 but gives no birthplace, Jean-Baptiste [TRAHAN], born in 1764 but gives no birthplace, Élizabeth-Appoline [TRAHAN], born in 1767 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Marguerite [TRAHAN], born in 1768 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Jeanne [TRAHAN], born in 1770 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Anne [TRAHAN], born in 1772 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Francoise [TRAHAN], born in 1774 but gives no birthplace, Marie-Madeleine [TRAHAN], born in 1775 but gives no birthplace, & Joseph-Marie [TRAHAN], born in 1777 but gives no birthplace; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 169-70, Family No. 306, calls her Marguerite DUON, gives her birthplace & death but not her parents' names, details her marriage, says she was married in c1762 but gives no place of marriage, does not give her or her husband's parents' names, includes the death/burial records of daughter Marie-Madeleine TRAHAN, died age 4 & buried 2 May 1779 at St.-Similien, Nantes, & son Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN, buried 22 Mar 1785, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Marguerite DUHON, sa [Pierre TRAHAN's] feme, age 44, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite DUHON, his [Pierre TRAHAN's] wife, age 44, on the complete listing, says she was in the 35th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 6 children, & that she married in c1762 but gives no place of marriage.