Person:Marie Hebert (16)

Marie Osite Hebert
b.Abt 1730 , , , Acadia
d.Abt Aug 1805 , St. James, LA
m. Abt 1749
Facts and Events
Name Marie Osite Hebert
Alt Name Ozitte Marie Ozithe
Gender Female
Birth[1] Abt 1730 , , , Acadia
Marriage Abt 1749 , , , Acadiato Alexandre Melanson
Census[3] 14 Sep 1769 Cabahannocer, St. James, Louisiana, United States
Census[4] 1777 , St. James, LA
Other[5] 19 Feb 1785 St. James, St. James, LALand
Death? Abt Aug 1805 , St. James, LA
Burial[2] 1 Sep 1805 St. James, St. James, LA

!MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-CENSUS: Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; p. 166; own copy.

!MARRIAGE: Arsenault, Histoire et Genealogie, p. 1267 (Grand Pré). No parents given for Osite.

!MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Ancestors Found," in ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE, vol. 24, no. 4 (Oct 1995), p. 98. Osite HEBERT married Alexander MELANCON around 1748 at Grand Pré. She died on 1 Sep 1805 in St. James parish, LA, at age 75. Query asked about her parents.

References
  1. Michael B. Melanson. Melanson~Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family. (Dracut, MA: Lanesville Publishing, 2004)
    p. 61.

    She may have been the Osite HÉBERT born 2 Mar 1734, baptized at Grand-Pré (Register) on 11 May 1734, daughter of Charles HÉBERT & Marguerite LE BLANC.

  2. Diocese of Baton Rouge. Catholic Church Records, vol. 3, 1804-1819. (Baton Rouge, Diocese, 1982)
    p. 424.

    Osite HEBERT, age 75 years, widow of Alexandre MELANSON, buried 1 Sep 1805 at St. James Catholic Church, St. James, LA (SJA-4, 26).

  3. Michael B. Melanson. Melanson~Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family. (Dracut, MA: Lanesville Publishing, 2004)
    p. 61.

    Widow with five children, on six arpents of land on east shore of the Mississippi River.

  4. Michael B. Melanson. Melanson~Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family. (Dracut, MA: Lanesville Publishing, 2004)
    p. 61.

    Listed with four of her sons, as well as two men who were "engager": Williams, age 37; and Charles, age 29.

  5. Eileen Larré Behrman, trans. St. James Parish, Louisiana, Colonial Records, 1782-1787. (MacBean Press, 1981)
    p. 29.