Marie Adelaide Mariotte
Birth: 28 December 1780 Natchitoches Parish, LA
Death: 1 June 1860, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Marie Zeline LaCour
Birth: 30 April 1824
Death: Unknown
Jacques "Jacob" Rueben LaCour
Birth: Sep 1821, Natchitoches Parish, Louisana
Death: 20 May 1843, Unknown
Barthelemy LeCourt de Prelle
Birth: 18 September 1763, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Death: Unknown
Jacques Eloy LaCour
Birth: 1806 Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Death: Unknown
Marie Ursulle (LeCourt)
Birth: Unknown (Believed to be a free person of Caddo Indian descent)
Death: Unknown
These parent child relationships illustrate my direct bloodline. A few conventions will make the series of charts easier to understand.
- Parents are listed to the left and children are listed to the right between the parents.
- Selecting on a parent allows you to see their parents, and likewise selecting on a child allows you to see their children, if any.
- Some males are listed as unknown male. In these cases, the men could be slaves (from the African continent or Indian tribesmen) or free men (primarily of French or Spanish decent).
Some instances of my bloodline include brothers and sisters, which reflects on the social isolation of the Cane River Creoles of Color in the late 1700's to mid 1800's. In these situations, I have multiple connections to the same individual. For example Dominique Metoyer is both my great great great great grandfather and my great great great great great grandfather, and I have a direct bloodline to five of his children. Rather than show the multiple paths by which I relate to an individual, each person is listed once.
A large portion of my mother's family history from The Forgotten People by Gary B. Mills. This book, among a few others provide an excellent history of my family enclave.