Onezime LeBleu

Onezime married Marie Zilphey (Gilphy) Berwick, (dau of wno?) on 23 Oct 1841 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Marie was born on 22 Jul 1825 in Berwick Bay, Atakapas, Louisiana; died after 1858 in of, Calcasieu, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Louisiana Marriages
Name Onezime Lebleu
Spouse Gilphy Berwick
Marriage Date 23 Oct 1841
Marriage Place St. Landry

marriages in St. Landry Parish
4753 LEBLEU, ONEZIME BARWICK, ZELPHIE Oct 18, 1866
4754 LEBLEU, ONEZIME BERWICK, GILPHY Oct 23, 1841
http://www.theusgenweb.org/la/stlandry/marriages/1772-1891_marriages_24.html

1. Onezime LeBleu was born in 1844 in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; died after 1850 in of, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
2. Marie Emerente LeBleu was born in 1847 in Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died on 5 Apr 1891 in Church Point, Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
3. Onezilia Julia LeBleu was born on 6 Mar 1849 in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; died after 1850 in of, Calcasieu, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

Jean married Marguerite Lejeune on 18 May 1813 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Marguerite (daughter of Jean Blaise Lejeune and Adelaide "Anne" Quinter) was born before 1798; was christened on 28 May 1798 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died in 1847 in Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Christened:
Margarita - baptized May 28, 1798; Godparents, Bautista LeJeune, her uncle, and Margarita Grange.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1805, Atascasito, Harris Co, Texas

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son of Blaise Lejeune & Marie Breaux
Wit: marriage of Maria Quinter & Isaac Johnson 21 Aug 1796 Opel., also Jacob Welsh and John Moore.

Residence:
Blaise Lejeune and his wife Adelaide Quintero. Lejeune lived on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlée in today?s Acadia Parish and his wife was the daughter of a Spanish soldier stationed in Louisiana. With them was Blaise?s brother Jean Baptiste. Strangely missing from the census was their daughter, Marguerite, who would later marry Catherine LeBleu Sallier?s brother, Jean Baptiste LeBleu.

Jean married Adelaide "Anne" Quinter on 1 May 1792 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Adelaide (daughter of Manuel Quinter (Quinteros) and Marie Grange) was born about 1772 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana; died after 1805. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1805, Atascasito, Harris Co, Texas

Notes:

Quintero, Anne of Pointe Coupee (Manuel & Marie Grange) m 1 May 1792 Blaise Lejeune (Blaise & Marie Breaux) Wits: Maturin Richard, Blaise LeJeune, Toussaint Chabote. Fr. Pedro de Zamora (Opel Ch. v1-A, p 40)


Residence:
Blaise Lejeune and his wife Adelaide Quintero. Lejeune lived on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlée in today?s Acadia Parish and his wife was the daughter of a Spanish soldier stationed in Louisiana. With them was Blaise?s brother Jean Baptiste. Strangely missing from the census was their daughter, Marguerite, who would later marry Catherine LeBleu Sallier?s brother, Jean Baptiste LeBleu.

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THE GRASS WAS NOT GREENER ACROSS THE SABINE RIVER

For me, genealogy is more than the collecting of dead people?s names; it is the attempt to put a real face upon a long-gone ancestor and to try to understand his life by understanding the historical events that affected it. I recently read a book, Lost Spanish Towns; Atascosito and Trinidad de Salcedo by Jean L. Epperson, that shed light upon an emigration of nearly two hundred years ago that must have had a dramatic and traumatic effect upon a number of Louisiana families whose descendants still inhabit this area. It also proves the old adage, ?the grass only seems greener on the other side of the fence?..

The United States purchased Louisiana in 1803. Except for the brief period when France?s Emperor Napoleon owned and then sold the colony, Louisiana had been ruled and administered by Spain since 1766. While the Spanish were not exactly loved, they represented a known element to the inhabitants, instead of this strange, new and frightening government of the United States of America with its alien concept of democracy. Understandably, many former Spanish citizens of Louisiana were not exactly thrilled. This fear was egged on by the last Spanish governor, the Marquis of Casa Calvo, who remained in now-American Louisiana and attempted to convince Louisianans to move to still-Spanish Texas..

In 1805, fourteen families arrived in Atascosito, a tiny Spanish outpost laying about halfway between the present-day cities of Houston and Beaumont, Texas. Many were related to one another by blood or marriage. What fears led these people to abandon their homes and friends for the wilds of Texas? Though some of these families came from the area around what is now Lake Charles, at least one came from the Pointe Noire neighborhood between present-day Branch and Church Point. The church and civil records for these families were recorded in Opelousas, regardless of actual homesite, because St. Landry Parish (or Opelousas County, as it was called at the time) then stretched all the way to the Texas border. They were:

Blaise Lejeune and his wife Adelaide Quintero. Lejeune lived on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlée in today?s Acadia Parish and his wife was the daughter of a Spanish soldier stationed in Louisiana. With them was Blaise?s brother Jean Baptiste. Strangely missing from the census was their daughter, Marguerite, who would later marry Catherine LeBleu Sallier?s brother, Jean Baptiste LeBleu.

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/20284647/person/924767092/story/1b8bbc4d-7e91-4bbd-a4c7-639cd4acc6ec?src=search

Blaise married Marie Josephe Breaux about 1765. Marie (daughter of Pierre Breaux and Marguerite Guidry) was born about 1745; died in Jul 1818 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; was buried on 09 Jul 1818 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Spanish soldier stationed in Louisiana

stated deceased at marriage of dau Marie Clotilde on 7 Feb 1797.

Manuel married Marie Grange about 1765. Marie (daughter of Grange) was born about 1755; died before Feb 1797. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

stated deceased at marriage of dau Marie Clotilde on 7 Feb 1797
There was a Baptiste Grange who was wit to this marriage.