Ancestors
Nicolas Fisseau
Children include Françoise
Nicolas Fisseau was a native of Paris, of the parish of Saint Denis. He was at New Orleans by 1722, in the town's first years, when the Company of the Indies ran Louisiana. He had been back to France and returned, and the Company paid his passage and later kept back 125 livres of his estate to cover it.
On 4 May 1722, after two banns, he married Marianne Legare, a native of Mastrick, at the parish church of New Orleans. The priest wrote his name as Fiso. Her father, Antoine Barthélemy Legare, and her uncle, Jean Philippe Laprairie, stood as witnesses. Under the marriage contract she brought him a dowry of 300 livres, and the survivor was promised a preciput of 100 livres, a sum taken before anything was divided.
They had at least four daughters. Anne Marie died on 16 October 1728, at three. Françoise was born in 1728 and Marie Louise after her. Anne Nicolle was buried on 17 September 1731, at six months.
He died after a long illness that used up 375 livres, and left no will. What he left was two adult slaves and a young one, two thirds of a town lot, and an old house built of stakes set in the ground. One of the slaves, hired out to a man named Chenier, drowned in the Lake, and 1,300 livres were paid for him. His widow married Pierre de Lorme, and in 1748 his daughter Françoise's husband, Jean Fayard, took de Lorme before the Superior Council to save what was left for the two girls.
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.
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.
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. 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. Glenn R. Conrad, First Families of Louisiana (1970), vol. 2, page 120 (death of Anne Marie Fisseau, 1728), and the burial register of the parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, Funeral Book 1, page 70 (Anne Nicolle Fisseau, 1731), 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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