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Marie-Elizabeth Bacquet ("Lamontagne") m. by 1740? b. Mar 9, 1711 St. Michel de Bellechasse, Quebec Canada d. Nov 23, 1749 St. Michel de Bellechasse, Quebec Canada |
Joseph-Louis bapt. Jul 10, 1740 St. Michel de Bellechasse, Quebec Canada d. Aug 6, 1819 Chambly Canada |
Marie-Geneviève b. Apr 8, 1742 Avoyelles Post La. Terr. d. Jan 14, 1779 |
Michael b. Sep 28, 1744 St. Michel de Bellechasse, Quebec Canada d. 1797 or after 1820 ?Avoyelles Post La. Terr. |
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John Louis b. May 10, 1746 St. Michel de Bellechasse, Quebec Canada d. 1801? or Jul 12, 1816 Rapides Parish LA |
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Marie-Geneviève Fortier m. Aug 3, 1750 Saint-Michel de Bellechase Canada b. Oct 21, 1719 Ste Jean de Ile d'Orleans, Canada d. Apr 12, 1797 |
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Avoyelles was settled by native Americans many centuries ago, and later by Canadians.
It is now a Parish in central Louisiana
(see present day map
for location). |
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The earliest census for the Avoyelles, dated May 23, 1785, shows a Lacroix
household headed by a 44 year old male [first name missing],
a woman, 4 children and 2 slaves on a medium sized (10,000 ft) tobacco farm.
Also counted were 10 head of cattle, 5 horses and 50 swine. |
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About 1803, daughter Catherine married James
Holloway who had settled in nearby Rapides Parish with his brother and
two White family cousins during the previous decade. That area had became known
as Holloway Prairie. |
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The names John and James Holloway appear in several 1790's Spanish Colonial documents
and militia lists. On Oct 30, 1798 John and James gave an oath of loyalty to the
United States as the Natchez district became part of a US Territory (Mississippi
was not admitted to the Union of States until 1817). Also in these records, in
Jun 1795, A "John Holloday" makes a deposition about some horses and a James Stewart
from Georgia. The significance is that the record, translated from Spanish, has
"Sig. John Holliday, 22 Jun, 1795. Before Wm. Cooper, Etc." [McBee. p. 288].
These names may all belong to the "Juan Holladay" who is counted in the 1792 Census
for the Second and Sandy Creek area of Natchez District. The family of this individual
does seem to matchup with later Rapides Parish census records for the John Holloway
who moved there afterwards. |
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Rapides Parish was formed in 1807 by the Territory of Orleans government.
(see present day map
for location). |
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From E. W. McDonald's book The LaCroix Descendants; 1611 - 1991; From France Via
Quebec To Central Louisiana, "we see that James Holloway married Catherine LaCroix.
It appears likely, from age ranges in later Census records, that all of John and
James Holloway's children were born in Rapides Parish, beginning in the mid-1790's.
James Holloway and Catherine LaCroix had the following children: Mary; Nancy;
Selita; Eliza; Elizabeth; Jane; and Stephen. A son Stephen married Polly Martin,
and moved his family to St. Landry Parish and on into Texas, the remaining male
Holloway children are probably descendants of his brother John" [McDonald, p. 7]. |
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After her husband died, Marie married Hugh Baillie. |
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In the 1810 Census for Louisiana,
grandsons "John Louis Lacroix" and "Mitchel Lacroix" headed households: The elder John Louis was born by 1784 and had only one child, a girl under 10, and a female aged 16-26 (wife), and 1 slave in the household. The household of Mitchel, or Michel, the french name for Michael, had: 1 male under 10, 1 male between age 16-26 (himself b. after 1784), 1 female between age 16-26 (wife), and 6 slaves in the household. |
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On page 133 of the
1820 Rapides Parish LA Census there are three Lacroix households: "John L. Lacroix" [line 1] aged over 45 (brother), "Michael Lacroix" [line 8] aged over 45 (son) "Peter Lacroix" [line 9] aged 26-45 (grandson) living with a male aged over 45 (brother Joseph or Michael?), with no females over the age of 45 in any of them. |
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Son John Louis died at his home in Avoyelles Parish LA, about halfway down the road
between the present towns of Deville and Effie LA. |
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SOURCES: Aymond, Greg, Holloway Family of Holloway Prairie, Rapides Parish LA GenWeb, website, Dec 05, 1999. Census of Avoyelles Post, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, May 23, 1785, trans. from French, publ. in La. Genealogical Register, Jun 1981, pp. 121-125, website. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1830, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 91-92. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1810, microfilm pp. 281, 398. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1820, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 136. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, Nov 15, 1850 page 1, page 2. U.S. Census, Catahoula Parish LA, 1840. Documents ... , US Congress, 1815-24] Imbert, J. Leopold, map maker, Carte des Possessions Angloises... 1777, reprinted by the Museum of the American Revolution from map image at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library. "John Holloway, 1851", File H-3, on p. 208 of "The MS Cains", website. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, pp. 10, 14, 16-17, 112-114, 141-2, 218, 288. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, pp. 141-2, 287-8. McDonald, E. W., The LaCroix Descendants; 1611 - 1991; From France via Quebec to central Louisiana, private publ., Orlando FL, 1992, pp. 7. MS Dept. of Arch. & Hist., 1816 Franklin Co. Census in "Territorial Censuses", website. USGenWeb, Early Southwest Miss. Territory, "Natchez District 1792 Spanish Census Index", website. Veach, Damon, "Louisiana Ancestors", article in Sunday Advocate Magazine, Baton Rouge LA, Feb 21, 1982. White, Gifford, "James White and John White", Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2 by M.L.Vineyard & E.M.Wiseman, Franklin NC,1997, p. 111. White, Gifford, James Taylor White of Virginia and some of his descendants into Texas, Austin, TX, 1982. Unknown author, "...to John ..." [illegible], correspondence detailing discovery of baptismal records of Stillee children in Cathedral Archives, no date but possibly mid 1900's. |
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