Person:Francois Benoit (13)

Watchers
Francois Xavier Benoit
m. 5 Jan 1771
  1. Joseph Benoit1772 - 1851
  2. Etienne Benoit1773 -
  3. Marie Angele Benoit1775 - 1791
  4. Marie Henriette Benoit1776 - 1807
  5. Charles Benoit1777 -
  6. Eloy Benoit1778 - 1846
  7. Francois Xavier Benoit1779 - 1823
  8. Augustin Benoit1786 -
m. 8 Sep 1807
  1. Michel Benoit1808 -
  2. Rosalie Benoit1814 - 1904
  3. Marie Helene Benoit1817 -
  4. Marguerite Cleonice Benoit1823 -
Facts and Events
Name Francois Xavier Benoit
Gender Male
Birth? 2 Mar 1779 Carencro, Lafayette, Louisiana, USAAlternate: Born at Ascension
Christening? 13 Jun 1779 Godparents Joseph Braud & Monica Guidry
Marriage 8 Sep 1807 Saint Martinville, St Martin, Louisiana, USAMarguerite was the daughter of Michel Trahan of the lower Vermilion valley
to Madeline Marguerite Trahan
Residence[1][4] 1810 Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Residence[2][5] 1820 LaFourche Parish, Louisiana, United States
Death? 31 Jul 1823 Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Other? 31 Jul 1823 Succession

Family

Francois Xavier, called Xavier, born at Ascension in March 1779, married [Madeline] Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Trahan of the lower Vermilion valley, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1807.

Xavier died by July 1823, when his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse; he would have been 44 years old that year.

After the death of Xavier Benoit, his widow Marguerite Trahan married Michael Ellender on 17 Jan 1829 (Opel Ct Hse : Mar #10)

References
  1. 1810 Louisiana Census
    Series: M252 Roll: 10 Page: 161, 1810.
    1810 Census
  2. 1820 Census Louisiana
    Series: M33 Roll: 30 Page: 40, 1820.
  3.   Hébert, Donald J. Southwest Louisiana Records: Church and Civil Records of Settlers, 1756-1810. (Eunice, Louisiana: Hebert Publications, 1974-)
    Volume 1.

    p. 38
    - Benoit, Francois Xavier (Etienne & Magdeleine Breaux) m Marguerite Trahan (SM Ch)

    p. 39
    - Benoit, Xavier of Manchac (Etienne & Marie Brau) m Marguerite Trahan (SM Ch)
    - Benoit, Zavier (Etienne & Magdeleine Brau) m Marguerite Trahan (SM Ch)

  4. 1810 Census
  5. 1820 Census