Marie Celeste Lejeune

Marie married Charles Trahan on 28 Jul 1800 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Charles (son of Pierre Trahan and Anne Rose Brasseur) was born on 10 Oct 1777 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; was christened in 1778 in St. Landry Church, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died after 1816 in of, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marie Celestine Trahan was born before 28 Jul 1800 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; was christened on 28 Jul 1800 in St. Landry Church, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died after 1837 in of, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.

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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.

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: Aug 2010; link at Rootsweb

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Research Notes:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=patlechuga&id=I74213

Jean married Marguerite Trahan in 1748 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Marguerite (daughter of Etienne Trahan and Mary Francoise Roy) was born in 1728 in Pisquit, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada; died after 1759 in of, Plaquemine, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pierre married Marguerite Guidry on 25 Jun 1726 in Mines, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. Marguerite was born in 1692 in St. Chas aux Mines, Acadie, Nova Scotia; died on 09 Aug 1773 in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Etienne married Mary Francoise Roy after 1729 in Nova Scotia, Canada. Mary was born about 1698 in Port Royal, Decadie, Canada; died on 12 Jan 1758 in Montmagny, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Antoine married Marguerite Babin in 1687 in Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada. Marguerite was born in 1670 in Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada; died in 1739 in Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]