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Ancestors

Françoise Fisseau

b. 1728
Born 1728
Father: Nicolas Fisseau
Children include Louis

Françoise Fisseau was born in 1728, very probably at New Orleans, a daughter of Nicolas Fisseau, a Parisian, and Marie Anne La Garenne, who came from Mastrick. Her older sister Anne Marie died that October at three, and a baby sister, Anne Nicolle, died in 1731 at six months. Only she and a younger sister, Marie Louise, grew up. Her father died while she was young. Her mother married again, to Pierre de Lorme, and while still a widow sold a third of the family lot and twenty five feet of it to a man named Fontaine.

By the age of about sixteen she was married to Jean Fayard, called La Lancette, a soldier of the marine troops, and had gone with him to Natchitoches, the colony's post on the Red River. Her first daughter, Marie Anne, was baptised there on 7 September 1744, and the priest entered the mother under her own mother's name, as Françoise LaGarrene. A second daughter, Marie Louise, followed in September 1746.

Back in New Orleans, in May 1748, her husband took her stepfather to the Superior Council to save what was left of her father's estate for her and her sister. De Lorme's account to the Council says what there had been: two adult slaves and a child, two thirds of a lot, and an old house of stakes set in the ground with no furniture in it. One of the slaves, hired out to a man named Chenier, had drowned in the Lake. On 1 June 1748 the Council ordered the goods sold and the house and lot sold by the court for the heirs.

Six more children were baptised at New Orleans between 1748 and 1763: Pierre, Jean, André, Louis, a second Pierre, and Félicité. Her son Louis was born on 29 January 1758 and received the ceremonies of baptism at New Orleans on 29 March. The priest wrote her name as Françoise Fissot. When Louis married at New Orleans in 1781 the Spanish priest wrote it as Francisca Bousseau, and called her son a native of Deer Island, off Biloxi. Louis lived out his life on that coast and died at Biloxi about 1830.

Parents

Nicolas Fisseau

Children

Louis Fayard 1758-1830

Sources

Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana, abstracts in English, The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3 (July 1936), pages 771 to 772 (archive.org item per_louisiana-historical-quarterly_the-louisiana-historical-quarterly_1936-07_19_3, leaves 244 and 245); judgment of 1 June 1748 in vol. 19, no. 4 (October 1936), page 1082.
Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, vol. 2 (1751-1771), Earl C. Woods, editor (New Orleans, 1987), abstract: "FAYARD, Louis (Jean and Francoise HISSOT), b. March 29, 1758, bn. Jan. 29, 1758, s. Louis BERNARD and Marie Fran[coise GAUTHIER]". The words quoted are from an English translation of the register entry.
Marriage register of the parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, June 1781, Father Cyrillo de Barcelona, in Spanish, quoted in English translation.
Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana, abstracts in English, The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3 (July 1936), pages 771 to 772 (archive.org item per_louisiana-historical-quarterly_the-louisiana-historical-quarterly_1936-07_19_3, leaves 244 and 245); judgment of 1 June 1748 in vol. 19, no. 4 (October 1936), page 1082. Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, vol. 2 (1751-1771), Earl C. Woods, editor (New Orleans, 1987), abstract: "FAYARD, Louis (Jean and Francoise HISSOT), b. March 29, 1758, bn. Jan. 29, 1758, s. Louis BERNARD and Marie Fran[coise GAUTHIER]". The words quoted are from an English translation of the register entry. Marriage register of the parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, June 1781, Father Cyrillo de Barcelona, in Spanish, quoted in English translation.
Marriage of Nicolas Fiso and Marianne Legare, parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, 4 May 1722, Marriage Book A, pages 49 and 50, in English translation as quoted in "The Fayard Family", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 22, no. 86 (April 1983), pages 157 to 160 and following, reproduced in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item fayard, leaf 5.
Baptisms of Marie Anne (7 September 1744) and Marie Louise (9 September 1746) Fayard, parish of Saint Francis, Natchitoches, in English translation as quoted in "The Fayard Family", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 22, no. 86 (April 1983), pages 157 to 160 and following, reproduced in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item fayard, leaf 4.
Baptisms of Pierre (BB II p. 171), Jean (BB II p. 246), André (BB III p. 43, act 447), Louis (BB III p. 93), Pierre (BB IV p. 35) and Félicité (BB V p. 19) Fayard, parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, 1748 to 1763, in English translation as quoted in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, archive.org item fayard, leaf 61.
Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana, abstracts in English, The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3 (July 1936), pages 771 to 772 (archive.org item per_louisiana-historical-quarterly_the-louisiana-historical-quarterly_1936-07_19_3, leaves 244 and 245); judgment of 1 June 1748 in vol. 19, no. 4 (October 1936), page 1082. Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, vol. 2 (1751-1771), Earl C. Woods, editor (New Orleans, 1987), abstract: "FAYARD, Louis (Jean and Francoise HISSOT), b. March 29, 1758, bn. Jan. 29, 1758, s. Louis BERNARD and Marie Fran[coise GAUTHIER]". The words quoted are from an English translation of the register entry. Marriage register of the parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, June 1781, Father Cyrillo de Barcelona, in Spanish, quoted in English translation. Marriage of Nicolas Fiso and Marianne Legare, parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, 4 May 1722, Marriage Book A, pages 49 and 50, in English translation as quoted in "The Fayard Family", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 22, no. 86 (April 1983), pages 157 to 160 and following, reproduced in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item fayard, leaf 5. Baptisms of Marie Anne (7 September 1744) and Marie Louise (9 September 1746) Fayard, parish of Saint Francis, Natchitoches, in English translation as quoted in "The Fayard Family", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 22, no. 86 (April 1983), pages 157 to 160 and following, reproduced in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item fayard, leaf 4. Baptisms of Pierre (BB II p. 171), Jean (BB II p. 246), André (BB III p. 43, act 447), Louis (BB III p. 93), Pierre (BB IV p. 35) and Félicité (BB V p. 19) Fayard, parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, 1748 to 1763, in English translation as quoted in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, archive.org item fayard, leaf 61. Glenn R. Conrad, First Families of Louisiana, vol. 2, for her birth year, as cited in "The Fayard Family", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 22, no. 86 (April 1983), pages 157 to 160 and following, reproduced in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item fayard.

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