Louis Fayard

1758-1830 · Harrison County, Mississippi

Born 1758, Deer Island, off Biloxi

Died 1830

Mother: Françoise Fisseau

Children include Ursin

He held a strip of the Biloxi shore that ran from the Gulf of Mexico back forty arpents to the public lands, and a second arpent beside it whose front was the family's burying ground. He died about 1830 leaving six children and no division, and the land sat undivided for nineteen years until two of his sons asked the Probate Court to cut it into six.

He was born on 29 January 1758 to Jean Fayard, called La Lancette, and Françoise Fisseau, and was baptised privately at birth. On 29 March a Capuchin priest at the parish church of Saint Louis in New Orleans supplied the ceremonies of baptism, with Louis Bernard and Marie Françoise Gauthier as godparents. When he married Marthe Gargare at New Orleans in June 1781, the Spanish priest wrote him down as Luis Fayard, native of Deer Island, the island that lies off the Biloxi shore. He spent his life on that shore. One of the witnesses at the wedding was Carlos Lasnier, very probably of the Ladner family, another of the old families of that coast.

His hold on that shore went back to Spanish times. In April 1784, when the governor of Mobile granted the point east of him to James Mathurin and Nicholas Carceaux, their petition gave "Lewis Fayar" as their western neighbour. After the coast became American, the claim was confirmed as no. 143 and surveyed in January 1824 as 640 acres on the seashore, beside the claim of Angélique Fayard, the wife of Jean Baptiste Fayard.

Parents

Françoise Fisseau b. 1728

Children

Ursin Fayard (b. 1789)

Sources

THE PETITION, filed by Jacques Fayard and Jean Fayard. "That LOUIS FAYARD the Father of your Petitioner died about the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty leaving surviving him six children his only heirs at law to wit Lewis, Judique, your petitioner Jacques and Jean, [Ursin] and Alexis, of whom there are now living to wit your petitioners Jacques & Jean and Alexis Fayard, and they have died since the death of their said Father Louis Fayard to wit LOUIS, JUDIQUE and URSIN." It then takes each dead child in turn. Louis Junior died shortly after his father leaving Justine, Virginia who married Joseph Moran, and Caroline. Judique married Andre Castillon and left Genevieve and Louise. And then: "...that the said URSIN FAYARD left surviving him a widow GENEVIEVE FAYARD, and the following children and heirs to wit ANTOINE who died childless, LEONIE intermarried with Marcesse Richards, URSULE intermarried with Charles Holley, and DELPHINE WIFE OF STEPHEN M. HESTER, and those intermarried with FERDINAND GUNTER, and JOSEPH FAYARD." That is Delphine named in a court of record, by her own name and her husband's, as a daughter and heir of Ursin Fayard. The same petition names her mother, her brothers and sisters and three of their husbands. THE LAND. Louis Fayard died seized of a tract at the village of Biloxi running from the Gulf of Mexico back forty arpents to the public lands of the United States, bounded east by the land of the widow of Jean Baptiste Fayard. Beside it lay a second tract of one arpent front "the front portion of which has been used as a place of burial", the family's burying ground on the beach. THE DIVISION, 11 February 1849. The commissioners surveyed the four arpents still undivided, cut it into six shares, and drew tickets for them: Jacques Fayard, the heir of Ursin Fayard deceased, the heirs of Judique Fayard deceased, Alexis Fayard, John Fayard, and the heirs of Louis Fayard deceased. The burial arpent was balloted the same way, so the graves were divided among the six with everything else.

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.

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.

Marriage register of the parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, June 1781, in English translation, and List of the children of Louis Fayard and Martha Gargare with their baptism entries (Ursin, Baptism Book 2, page 86, parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans), in "The Fayard Family", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 22, no. 86 (April 1983), reproduced in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, archive.org item fayard, leaf 66.

Partition of his estate, Probate Court of Harrison County, Mississippi, 1849. 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. Petition of James Mathurin and Nicholas Carceaux to Henry Grimarest, Governor of Mobile, 28 April 1784, and grant of the same date, Spanish grants, Mobile; survey of the claim of Louis Fasiar, certificate no. 143, 10 January 1824, under the acts of Congress of 25 April 1812 and 3 March 1819; both quoted in "The Fayard Family", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 22, no. 86 (April 1983), reproduced in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, archive.org item fayard, leaves 62 to 64. List of the children of Louis Fayard and Martha Gargare with their baptism entries (Ursin, Baptism Book 2, page 86, parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans), in "The Fayard Family", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 22, no. 86 (April 1983), reproduced in the Fayard Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, archive.org item fayard, leaf 66.

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