Person:Nicolas Malbrough (1)

!RESIDENCES-IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Glenn R. Conrad, "Some Maryland Germans Who Settled in Louisiana," in LES VOYAGEURS; vol. III, no. 4 (Dec 1982), pp. 85-88 [online at <thecajuns.com> get original]. Nicolas MARCOFF, with his wife Christine and six children, were come of the 56 Germans along with 32 Acadians and 12 others, who were passengers aboard the ill-fated "Britania," which left Maryland for New Orleans on 5 Jan 1769. After much travail in Texas, they arrived back in Natchitoches on 27 Oct 1769. They settled at Fort St. Gabriel, Iberville District.

!IMMIGRATION: A news brief in The Dallas Morning News [9/16/04] reports:...Senators on Wenesday unanimously approved a measure to designate El Camino Real de los Tejas a National Historic Trail. Settlers, immigrants, American Indians and members of the military used the 2600-mile corridor, believed to be one of the oldest in Texas. It stretches from the Rio Grande to Natchitoches, LA...Note: The road actually stretched to Los Adaes [near current-day Robeline, LA] which is about 14 miles West of Natchitoches and was the Capital of Spanish Colonial Texas.Stanley LeBlanc !NAME: Elton J. Oubre, "Canadian Voyageurs on the Lower River and Bayous," speech given 1 Aug 1998, reprinted in TERREBONNE LIFE LINES; vol. 17, no. 3 (Fall 1998); p 162. Etienne DAIGLE dit MALBOROUK was an early Canadian who arrived in Louisiana seeking land. [Any relationship to Nicolas?]

!NAME-BIRTH-MARRIAGE-SON-DEATH: On Pedigree Chart sent by Edward DOMANGUE in May 1996. Nicholas MARCOFF, est 1707-abt 1770, married to Marie Christine ORY (1724-1796); son Josef MALBROUGH born around 1759. The MALBROUGH name itself is a mystery. It may refer to the community in Maryland while [sic] the progenitor took refugee [sic] during the Acadain [sic] Dispersion of 1755. The original name was German in the records: MANNHOFFER, MARCOFF, and MAROUFF. On a later Family Group Record his death is listed as c. 1786 in LA. (Reference: NEW ORLEANS GENESIS; Jul 1983; p. 370.

!PARENTS-NAME-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: FRENCH CANADIAN AND ACADIAN GENEALOGICAL REVIEW; 1601-1750; vol. II, no. 1 (spring 1969); p. 60; California State Library Sutro, CS80 F7. In reply to a query about Nicolas MALBROUR [sic] & Christine OURIE, natives of Canada (in one instance as of St. Antoine) in LA records. Jacques MALBOEUF dit BEAUSOLEIL, son of Jean-Baptiste & Marguerite RENAUD married at St-Pierre-du-Sud, Quebec on 20 Jul 1750 to Genevieve HURETTE, daughter of Jean-Baptiste & Francoise MÉTIVIER. Children: Jacques (born 1751, baptized at St-Pierre) and Genevieve (born 1753, baptized at St-Francois-du-Sud, parish next to St-Pierre). Then the family moved to St-Antoine de Chambly, government of Quebec around 1755. [Check registers of this parish for more on family. Not the same?]

!NAME: Letter from Margaret MOORE in May 1996 gives a Jacques MALBROU, married to Genevieve HURETTE (OURIE), parents of Marie MALBROU who married Jean LICAIRE. She has parents of Jacques were Jean Baptiste MALBROU & Marguerite RENAUD.

!NAME: Letter from Lois Hayes CULVER in May 1996. Father of Marie-Ann MALBROU, widow LAURENT, was Jacques married to Genevieve HURETTE/OURIE, daughter of Jean Baptiste HURETTE & Francoise METIVIER. Jacques' father was Jean Baptiste MALBROU who married Marie-Marguerite RENAUD, daughter of Pierre Andre RENAUD & Francoise DESPORTES. [She has parents beyond these. Are they related to this Nicolas?]

!NAME: Diocese of Baton Rouge, CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS; 1820-1829; vol. 4, Baton Rouge, Diocese, ; p. 386; California State Library Sutro, F377 B3 C3 v.4. Listed as Francois [MALBROUGH], mother's name omitted, on daughter Marie's burial record on 5 Oct 1824. [But she was 70 years old at death, widow of Jean LIQUEUR; mistake?] Recorded in Assumption Church, Plattenville, LA (ASM-3, 177).

!LAND: Charles R. Maduell, FEDERAL LAND GRANTS IN THE TERRITORY OF ORLEANS--THE DELTA PARISHES; 1790-1815; New Orleans, Polyanthos, 1975; p. 330; Santa Cruz Genealogical Library, LOUIS 7; Adapted from AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, PUBLIC LANDS, vol. 2, arranged by counties as they existed in 1812. Francis MARLBRO, #498-426, comprising 115 and 34/100ths superficial acres (arpents?) bounded upstream by Etienne DAVOIS and downstream by an unnamed landowner. [Next listing is for Joseph MALBROUGH (also MARLBROUGH). [Where is Nicolas? Same as Francis?]

DEATH: Did he also die in Assumption Parish, LA?

!NAME-RESIDENCES-BURIAL: Elton J. Oubre, "The Malbrough Family," 21-page article sent by Edward Domangue in May 1996. Surname found as MALBROUGH, MALBROU, MALBREAU, MALBRO, MALBOROUGH, MARLBOROUGH, and earlier as MAROBE, MAROFFE, MARBIEAU, and MAROPHLE. Married around 1750s to Marie Christine HOURY, possibly in Louisbourg [Acadia].

1. ↑ Stephen S. Michot & John P. Doucet. Lafourche Country II, The; The Heritage and Its Keepers. (Lafuorche Heritage Society, 1996)
   p. 240.

   He married around 1748, probably in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, to Marie Christine HOURY. She is strongly connected to the ORY family, also residing in Louisbourg, and deported to MD. Apparently after the fall of Louisbourg, they were deported to Frederick County, MD. A group of Acadians and "German-Acadians" left Maryland in 1769 on a ship named the "Britania," headed for New Orleans. The ship was lost in the gulf and landed on the coast of Texas, where the passengers were captured by the Spaniards and held at St. Antonio, Bexar county. The captives were moved north, where they were freed to travel the Red River and Mississippi down to New Orleans, where the MALBROUGH and ORY families were recorded. After being equipped, they were sent back upriver to settle at Galvez, but both eventually settled on the west bank of the River.

   Article by Elton J. Oubre, "The Malbrough Family."

2. ↑ Acadian Genealogy Exchange
   vol. XXXI, no. 2, pp. 68-70, Oct 2002.

   Nicholas MARCOFF [sic], age 62, with his wife Channe, age 45, and five children: Jean George, age 19; Marie, 15; Joseph, 10; Francois, 8; and Jean Augustin, 5 months, were listed at Natchitoches on 27 Oct 1769 as having arrived at that post on 24 Oct 1769. They were among German and Acadian families who had gone by an English vessel to settle in New Orleans. This vessel was lost in the Gulf of Mexico, when it put in at Espiritu Santo Bay. On 15 Nov 1769, "By virtue of the decree of the Most Excellent Senor Don Alexandro O'REILLY, the sixteen families were given 16 large axes, 16 hatchets, 16 iron pots, 16 spades, 6 drawing knives, and 267 pesos in money (at the rate of 3 pesos to each person) [therefore 89 people]. "And each one of the eight German families, in consideration of the fact that they are to settle at the fort of Oberville [sic], have been given, in addition to the foregoing, one gun, twelve gun-flints, and three pounds of powder."
   The editor goes on to state that in 1991 comments were published by John W. King on the landing of the "Britannia" in the Gulf of Mexico. Many more details.

   Excerpt from Dorothy Williams Potter, PASSPORTS OF SOUTHEASTERN PIONEERS, 1770-1823.

3. ↑ Elton J. Oubre. Vacherie: St. James Parish, Louisiana. History and Genealogy, 2nd ed.. (Thibodaux, LA: Oubre's Books, 2002)
   p. 505.

   The MALBROUGH ancestors were first settled in Lancaster county, PA, and from there they moved to Frederick county, MD. Eventually, they came to LA in a most unusual journey. The ship was lost in the Gulf of Mexico and landed on the coast of Texas, where the passengers were held captive by the Spaniards.

4. ↑ Ignacio Ramon de Espeleta. "List of German and Acadian Families Who Went by an English Vessel to New Orleans to Settle". (Conway, AR: Oldbuck Press, 2000).

   1st family on list, one of the seven German Families:
   Nicolas MARCOFF, age 62;
   Channe, his wife, 45;
   Jean George MARCOFF, their son, 19;
   Marie MARCOFF, their daughter, 15;
   Marie Madeleine (relation not given), 12;
   Joseph MARCOFF, their son, 10;
   Francois MARCOFF, their son, 8;
   Jean Augustin MARCOFF, 5 months.