Person:Celeste Rentrop (1)

Celeste (Sarah) Hortense Rentrop
b.27 Apr 1820 , Assumption, LA
d.5 Mar 1877 , Liberty, TX
m. 18 Nov 1805
  1. Elizabeth Melanie Rentrop1807 - 1853
  2. Mariana Henriette Rentrop1810 - Bef 1820
  3. Auguste Frederick Rentrop1812 - Bef 1858
  4. Clara Henriette Rentrop1815 - Bef 1828
  5. Marguerite Tersille Rentrop1817 - 1901
  6. Celeste (Sarah) Hortense Rentrop1820 - 1877
  7. Henry Maurice Rentrop1822 - 1871
  • HMarcelin Theriot1805 - Abt 1843
  • WCeleste (Sarah) Hortense Rentrop1820 - 1877
m. Abt 1839
m. Abt 1845
Facts and Events
Name Celeste (Sarah) Hortense Rentrop
Alt Name Celeste Ortense, , Sarah Henriette, Henrietta C., RENTRAPE, THERIOT Sarah H.
Gender Female
Birth? 27 Apr 1820 , Assumption, LA
Christening? 13 Nov 1820 Plattenville, Assumption, LA
Marriage Abt 1839 Plattenville, Assumption, LAto Marcelin Theriot
Marriage Abt 1845 , , LAto Charles R. James Muggah
Death[1] 5 Mar 1877 , Liberty, TX
Burial[2] Franklin, St. Mary, LA

!BIRTH-CHRISTENING: Diocese of Baton Rouge; CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS; 1820-1829; vol. 4, p. 470. Celeste Ortense RENTROP, daughter of Frederic & Marie Marguerite LICAIR (LIQUEUR), born 27 Apr 1820; baptized 13 Nov 1820. Sponsors: Pierre Henri RENTROP & Celeste KNIGHT. Recorded in Assumption Church, Plattenville, LA (ASM-8, 184).

!NAME-PARENTS: Mary Elizabeth Sanders, ANNOTATED ABSTRACTS OF THE SUCCESSIONS OF ST. MARY PARISH, LOUISIANA; 1811-1834; 1972; p. 118; Salt Lake LDS Family History Library, US/CAN 976.342 P28sa. Celeste Sarah RENTROP, or Sarah Celeste.

!NAME-PARENTS-PROBATE: Succession [Probate] record of Marguerite LECOEUR; 1842-1843; County Clerk, St. Mary Parish, LA, Courthouse in Franklin, LA 70538-1231; p. 146; Photocopies of originals in courthouse book, consisting of pp. 144-158 [some versos] in possession of Karen Theriot Reader, Watsonville, CA. Celeste RENTROP wife of petitioner Marcelien THERIOT is named as one of the heirs of [her mother] Marguerite LECOEUR, widow of Frederick RENTROP, in a petition dated 17 Nov 1842.

!MARRIAGE: After husband Marcelien's death in 1843, she remarried Charles R. (James M.?) MUGGAH, who then became co-tutor of her minor son Alcide THERIOT.

DEATH: 1870 U.S. federal census, Mortality Schedule; Liberty County, TX; on AIC index of 1850-1885 mortality schedules. [She is the only THERIOT in the index.] Sarah H. THERIOT [maiden name RENTROP], born in LA, died of dropsy in Liberty County, TX, age 49 [so born about 1820].

References
  1. U.S. federal census.

    Died at age 49 of dropsy, born in LA.

    On the 1870 Mortality Schedule [only THERIOT listed from 1850-1885].

  2. Donald J. Hébert. Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk number 101. (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001).

    RENTROP, Henrietta C. Succ. dated 5 March 1877 (Frank. Ct. Hse.: Succ. # 2320)