Person:Joseph Theriot (5)

!BIRTH-CHRISTENING-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 1502; own copy. #(47):

!NEPHEW-CHRISTENING: Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, ACADIAN CHURCH RECORDS; 1712-1748; vol. II, Metairie, LA, Author, 1976; p. 127; Salt Lake LDS Family History Library 971.6 V2d, also microfiche #6087649; includes transcripts of Beaubassin, Acadia church registers, now at the Archives of the Mayor of La Rochelle, Charente Maritime, France. Charles GRANGER, born 29 Feb 1748, son of Joseph & Marguerite TERRIOT, baptized 1 Mar 1748. Sponsors: Joseph TERRIOT [this Joseph would be child's uncle, then age 15] & Rose CYRE.

!IMMIGRATION: Did Joseph and Madeleine join the Acadians led by Alexandre and Joseph BROUSSARD who chartered a vessel from Halifax to take them to Saint-Domingue [now Haiti]? From there they sailed to New Orleans, arriving in early 1765. Some of this group went to the Attakapas county to raise cattle on shares. Did Joseph & Madeleine's son Charles THERIOT go to join them when he was newly married?

!BIRTH-CHRISTENING-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: T. Girouard & F. Piazza, "Theriot Genealogy--Acadia to Louisiana," in TERREBONNE LIFE LINES, vol. 1, no. 3; p. 54; sent by Pat Blanchard in Mar 1996. Joseph was born 2 Jun 1732, baptized at St. Joseph Church, Beaubassin [sic, should be Grand Pré], Acadia, eighth child of Jean TERRIAU & Magdaleine BOURG. baptized 3 Jun 1732. Sponsors: Jean Baptiste TERRIAU & Marguerite TERRIAU [children of Claude TERRIAU & Marguerite CORMIER, Joseph's aunt and uncle]. Joseph married Magdeleine BOURGEOIS, daughter of Pierre & Marie CORMIER, at Beaubassin not after 1758; eight children are listed: Rosalie; Marie, born 1764; Pierre; Joseph; Charles; Jean Baptiste "Fulgence"; Marie Magdalena; Charles. Joseph and his wife were most probably held prisoners by the British at Halifax, Canada in 1763. They arrived in St. James Parish, LA in 1765, along with the families of Barthalomy [sic] BERGERON, Honore DUON, and Jean GUEDRY. Joseph joined the St. James Militia in Apr 1766. He died after 1779 in St. James Parish, LA.

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Audrey B. Westerman, "The Isaac Leblanc-Marie Theriot Question of St. James Parish," in TERREBONNE LIFE LINES, vol. II, no. 4; pp. 10-14. Eight children are listed for (Jacques) [sic] Joseph THERIOT & Marie Madeleine BOURGEOIS: Rosalie; Marie Rose; Pierre; Joseph; Charles [1]; Jean (Jacques) Fulgence; Marie Magdelaine; and Charles.

!MILITARY: E-mail message from Ron THERIOT (theriot@erols.com) in May 1998, from his father's oral history. Joseph THERIOT, grandfather of Michael Eloi, served with General GALVEZ in the Revolutionary War under the Spanish at Fort Maurepaus, LA, near Baton Rouge.

!DEATH: Joseph must have died before 22 Nov 1796, when his widow Magdelena BOURGEOIS is recorded marrying Pedro BERTEAU.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1502.

   Note iii says that Joseph appears to belong to the family of Jean because his age on the 1777 census matches that of son Joseph, and it is plausible that he would married into the same family as his brother Jean-Baptiste.

2. ↑ Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens. (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.)
   p. 2594 (Louisiana).

   Joseph THÉRIOT,born 1730, son of Joseph & Françoise MELANÇON [sic], married around 1758 to Madeleine BOURGEOIS (no parents given), born in 1730; eight children listed: Rosalie, 1759; Marie, 1764; Pierre, 1767; Joseph, 1769; Charles, 1772; Jean, 1773; Fulgence, 1773 [sic, these were the same child]; Madeleine, 1776. In 1777 Joseph lived on the east bank of the Mississippi at Saint James. A servant [engagé], Paul DOUCET, was living with him.

3. ↑ West, Robert Cooper, and Louisiana State University. An atlas of Louisiana surnames of French and Spanish origin. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University, 1986)
   pp. 137-138.

   On the THERIOT surname: "The earliest to arrive [in LA] were two Theriot families, who by 1766 had settled along the Mississippi River in the first Acadian Coast (St. James Parish)....the other was headed by ...another Joseph TERRIOT and his wife, Madeleine Bourgeois."
   In footnotes on p. 191: "The blood relationship between the two early Theriot families in Louisiana is not clear, but the Joseph Terriot (b. 1732) who married ca. 1758 Madeleine Bourgeois apparently was the son of a Jean Terriot (m. Madeleine Bourg), Jean being a second cousin of the Joseph (b. 1699) who married Francoise Melancon in 1725."

4. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1502.

   Joseph THÉRIOT, son of Jean & Madeleine BOURG, born/baptized (Grand Pré Register) 2/3 Jun 1732. Sponsors: Jean-Baptiste THÉRIOT & Marguerite THÉRIOT; the father signed.

   Joseph's sister Marguerite THERIOT would have been in her teens at the time. His aunt Marguerite was 24 and expecting her third child, to be born 12 days later. Which was baptismal sponsor?

5. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge. Catholic Church Records, vol. 1a: Acadian Records, 1707-1748. (Diocese, 1999,)
   p. 184.

   Joseph TERIOT, son of Jean TERIOT & Magdeleine BOURG, born 2 May [sic] 1732, baptized 3 Jun 1732. Sponsors: Jean Baptiste TERIOT & Marguerite TERIOT. [Father] Jean TERIOT signed (SGA-2, 119).

6. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1502.

   Joseph died before 22 Nov 1796.

   No place given for death.

7. ↑ Société historique acadienne, La
   cahier 24 (1969), pp. 158-164.

   On 5 Oct 1761 on list of French prisoners at Fort Edward, two Joseph TERRIAUs listed. The first was 18th in a list of 83 families, with 4 members in his family. [This is most likely our man. The second Joseph was listed 68th with 6 in his family, just before families of Alexis, Etienne and Jaques TERRIAU [presumably brothers, sons of Joseph THERIOT & Francoise MELANSON].

   Régis Sygefroy Brun, "Listes des prisonniers acadiens au fort Edward, 1761 et 1762."

8. ↑ Société historique acadienne, La
   cahier 24 (1969), pp. 158-164.

   On 12 Jul 1762, ten months after the first census at Fort Edward, most Acadian men had been sent to Halifax, only the sick remained with their women and children at Fort Edward. Among them was a Jos'h TERRIAU, with 6 members of his family. Of those families living there without their men was one of Jos. TERRIAU, with 3 in family. [This is most likely our man.] Listed just before him was René TERRIAU, with 9 members in the family.
   Less than a month later, on 9 Aug 1762, these same TERRIAU families are listed as being fed at Fort Edward, with all of the men absent except the Joseph TERRIAU, with 6 in famly (only 4 1/3 victualled). The other Joseph (absent) [probably this man] has 3 in family (with 2 victualled).
   By 11 Oct 1762, no THERIOT families are listed among the 74 famlies at Fort Edward. [Have they been moved to Halifax?]

   Régis Sygefroy Brun, "Listes des prisonniers acadiens au fort Edward, 1761 et 1762."

9. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
   p. 161.

   Joseph TÉRIO, on a list of the militia in Verrett's Company at Cabahannocer on 8 Apr 1766. Three-fourths of the way down, among 55 names of men, including Captain VERRETT. (Reference: Archive General de Indias--Santo Domingo, 2595, 181-182)

10. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies. Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796. (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973)
    p. 114.

    Heading of page "VERRET'S COMPANY." "Census and count of the Acadians taken on April 8 [1766] according to the survey made on that day of the inhabitants of the Kabakan Coast on both banks of the river twenty leaugues [sic] from the city." Resident's Name is Joseph TERIO, with 1 woman. The columns made for other members of household were left blank several names back, to end of list.
    Miguel BOURGEOIS (with 1 slave) is listed just above Joseph TERIO. [Is this the friend whose sister he married?]

11. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
    p. 181.

    "Joseph THERIOT, age 32, Acadian, Married" on a list of the Militia of the First Acadian Coast [St. James Parish], dated 23 Jan 1770, Captain Don Nicholas VERRET (Reference: General Archives of the Indies, Seville, Spain, PAPELES PROCEDENTES DE CUBA; 161).
    He is on the list from the Left Bank "from Sieur DUPART's to Germain BERGERON's" [but the list is alphabetized].

12. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
    p. 1502.

    Age 46.

13. ↑ Winston De Ville. Parish of St. James in the Province of Louisiana, The. (Ville Platte, LA, Author, 1987)
    p. 16.

    Joseph THERIOT, age 46, listed with his wife Magdelaine BOURGEOIS, 37, and six children:
    Pierre, son age 10;
    Joseph, son age 8;
    Jean, son age 4;
    Rozallie, daughter age 18;
    Marie, daughter age 13;
    Magdelaine, daughter age 1.
    There is also Paul DOUCET, his hired hand ("engager"), age 33.

    On the left bank of the Mississippi River, at Cabahan-noces, dated 1 Jan 1777.

14. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
    p. 189.

    On the left bank of the Mississippi River in the 1777 census of the Parish of St. James at Cabahannocer: Joseph THERIOT, age 46, listed with wife Magdelaine BOURGEOIS, age 37, and six children:
    Pierre, son, 10;
    Joseph, son, 8;
    Jean, son, 4;
    Rozallie, daughter, 18;
    Marie, daughter, 13;
    Magdelaine, daughter, 1.
    There is also Paul DOUCET, "engager" (hired hand), age 33.
    (Reference: Archivo General de Indias, PAPELES [PROCEDENTES] DE CUBA, [Legajo] 190).
    
    [Living on both sides are Michel BOURGEOIS's family and Abraham ROY's].

    Their second son named Charles has not been born yet. Was there a slave?

15. ↑ Winston De Ville. Acadian Coast in 1779, The. (Ville Platte, LA: Author, 1993)
    p. 22.

    Joseph THÉRIOT, with 7 whites: 10 rice, 15 corn.