Descendants of Amand RICHARD (c1744-1770s)
Amand, son of Pierre Richard and Marguerite Granger, born probably at Minas
in c1744, was exiled with his family to Maryland in 1755 and married fellow
Acadian Marie Breau in the English colony in c1763. They came to Louisiana
with his widowed father, two sons, and a young cousin in 1767 and settled at
St.-Gabriel d'Iberville. They had more children in Louisiana, including
sons. Their daughter married into the Gautreaux family. Amand died
probably at St.-Gabriel by March 1777, when his wife was listed in a census
there as a widow. One of his sons moved to Bayou Teche, but the others
remained on the river. His first son's line was especially vigorous.
1. Oldest son Simon, born in Maryland in c1764, married Scholastique, daughter
of fellow Acadian Joachim dit Bénoni Mire, at St.-Jacques in January 1786.
Their son Simon, fils was born at St.-Jacques in January 1787, Joseph le
jeune in March 1790, Louis le jeune in March 1792, Valentin-Augustin, called
Augustin, in March 1794, Jean-Baptiste in March 1799, Paul in March 1801,
and Laurent-Noël or Noël-Laurent in December 1802. Their daughter married
into the Gravois family. Simon remarried to Françoise, daughter of French
Creole Jean Lemaire of St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the Upper German
Coast and widow of Louis Rome, at St. James in October 1804; Simon was 40
years old at the time of the wedding. One of his sons settled on the
western prairies and another on Bayou Lafourche. The others remained on the
river.
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