Michel Gargare

b. 1728 · New Orleans

Born 1728, New Orleans

Father: Pierre Dargaray

Children include Marthe

Michel Gargare was born at New Orleans and baptised on 12 February 1728, a son of Pierre Dargaray, from Rennes in Brittany, and Gilette Gautier. The name was written Dargaray, Dargare, Dargaret and Gargare, often in the same family's papers. His father was the porter, or keeper, of the New Orleans prison and died in March 1736, when Michel was eight.

In the early 1750s he married Marthe Paquet, a granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Baudrau called Graveline of the Pascagoula River. No entry of the marriage survives. Their children were baptised from 1752 on: Nicolas at New Orleans in July 1752, with Michel's mother Gilette Gautier as godmother; Jean Baptiste at Saint Charles on the German Coast in July 1754; Michel in 1756; Marie Anne in December 1758; Pierre in 1762; and Marthe in 1764.

He died before May 1769, when Marthe Paquet married again at Pointe Coupée as his widow. Two of his daughters carried the family to the Gulf coast. Marthe married Louis Fayard of Biloxi in 1781, and Marie Anne married Jean Ryan at Mobile in 1786.

Parents

Pierre Dargaray 1693-1736

Children

Marthe Gargare b. 1764

Sources

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.

Marriage contract of Pierre D'Argaray and Gilette Gautier, New Orleans, 29 January 1720, Louisiana State Museum records; baptism of Michel Jacques Dargare, New Orleans, 12 February 1728, in the list of infants baptised at New Orleans in 1728, certified 24 April 1729; baptism of Pierre Dargaray, New Orleans, 8 September 1733; inventory at the death of Pierre Dargarey, Superior Council of Louisiana, 17 March 1736; all in English translation as quoted in Brother Jerome Lepré, "A Lady Undaunted: Marie Martha Paquet", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 21, no. 83 (July 1982), pages 263 to 270, reproduced in the Pacquet Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item Pacquet. Baptisms of Nicolas (13 July 1752, Book II p. 259), Jean Baptiste (24 July 1754, Saint Charles, German Coast), Michel (7 September 1756, Book III p. 62), Marie Anne (20 December 1758, Book III p. 104) and Pierre (19 May 1762, Book IV p. 102), children of Michel Gargare and Marthe Paquet, parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, in English translation as quoted in Brother Jerome Lepré, "A Lady Undaunted: Marie Martha Paquet", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 21, no. 83 (July 1982), pages 263 to 270, reproduced in the Pacquet Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item Pacquet. Marriage of Jacob Hankel and Martha Paquier, widow of Michael Gargaret, Pointe Coupée, 4 May 1769, Baton Rouge Diocesan Archives, and sale by Martha, widow of Jacob Hingle, at Pascagoula, 12 May 1804, both in English translation as quoted in Brother Jerome Lepré, "A Lady Undaunted: Marie Martha Paquet", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 21, no. 83 (July 1982), pages 263 to 270, reproduced in the Pacquet Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item Pacquet.

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