Claude Marie (Leblanc) LeBlanc (1765 - bef. 1816)

Born 23 May 1765 in Morlaix, Bretagne, France

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Anastasie (Comeaux) Comeau — married 9 Jun 1794 in Plattenville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana

Descendants

Died before 15 Feb 1816 before age 50 in Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

CLAUDE MARIE LE BLANC is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 12-R. He is listed alone. ^[1]

Claude (Leblanc) LeBlanc migrated from France to Louisiana.

Claude Marie Leblanc was born 23 May 1765 in Morlaix, France to Charles LeBlanc and Anne Landry, two exiled Acadians originally deported from Acadia to Liverpool, England via Virginia,^[2][3] and from there, seven years of detention later, when the war ended in 1763, went on to France, where they tried without much success to build a good life. Twenty-two years later, when the Spanish crown offered them a new opportunity in Louisiana, where many of their fellow Acadians had already resettled, Claude took it.

On 19 October 1785, Claude Marie, listed as a 20 year old plowman, sailed aboard La Caroline from Nantes to New Orleans, in a voyage that took 64 days.^[4]

Interestingly, a little over two years later on 1 January 1788 he'd only gained one year in age. He is listed as Glode Marie, age 21 with 6 arpents of land, 18 cattle and 3 swine on the left bank of the river in the LaFourche census.^[5]

His name is "Claude Marie LeBlanc" in the 1789 census of the Lafourche District. In the 1789 census of the left-bank settlements of the Lafourche District, he is a twenty-two-year-old bachelor living alone. He occupied a tract of land with six arpents frontage. He owned twenty barrels of corn, one cow, and five hogs. Around June 17, 1788, Jérôme LeBlanc and Claude LeBlanc formally complained to the governor about Commandant Judice's failure to maintain his levees. Judice subsequently maintained that Claude LeBlanc's improperly maintained levees were the cause of local flooding. An official investigation on June 29, 1788, determined that Judice's counter-charge was indeed valid and that LeBlanc's levees were too small and were "very poorly constructed."^[6]

He married Marguerite Anastasia Comeaux on 9 June 1794 in Plattenville, Louisiana.^[7]

Their known children were:

1. Joseph Rosemond LeBlanc (1794)^[8]
2. Auguste LeBlanc (1798)^[9]
3. Simon Pierre LeBlanc (1800)^[10]
4. Marie Carmelite LeBlanc (1802)^[11]
5. Silesie LeBlanc (1805)^[12]
6. Rosalie LeBlanc (1807)^[13]
7. Jean Marie LeBlanc (1809)^[14]
8. Modeste LeBlanc (1811)^[15]
9. Scholastique LeBlanc (1813)

Claude Marie died sometime before 15 February 1816, the date of the inventory for his succession (probate).^[16]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 46.
2. ↑ Declarations de Belle-en-Mer, www.acadian-home.org, accessed 25 March 2017.
3. ↑ Declarations de Genealogie des familles acadiennes, Etablies en 1757 A Belle-Ile en Mer, Racines et Rameaux Français d'Acadie, Archives départementales du Morbihan, accessed 25 March 2017.
4. ↑ Passenger List of La Caroline, Acadian-Cajun Genealogy & History, accessed 25 March 2017.
5. ↑ 1788 General Census of the Inhabitants Established in LaFourche, dated 1 January 1788. Orig. source: Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 201.
6. ↑ "Ensemble Encore, Life Lines"; Acadian Memorial Foundation Database of Acadian Immigrants to Louisiana; Accessed: 26 November 2021, Internet Entry for Claude Marie Le Blanc https://www.acadianmemorial.org/ensemble_encore2/record_detail.php?id=885, citing: General census of the settlers in the Lafourche District, 1788, AGI, PPC, 201:668-680; General Census of the Settlers of the Lafourche District, 1789, AGI, PPC, 202:248-259vo, Estevan Mir¢ to Louis Judie, June 17, 1788, AGI, PPC, 201:610; Procès-verbal of the inspection of June 29, 1788, AGI, PPC, 201:613.
7. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, 1770-1803, Vol. 2, (Baton Rouge, LA: Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, 2009) p.466;

   LEBLANC Glodio Maria (Carlos & Ana Landry of Britany, France) m. 9 June 1794, Margarita Anastasia COMAUX (Benito & Ana Blanchard of Cherbourg, France) wit. Joseph LeBlanc & Pedro Landry (ASM-2,8)

8. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WJ-RX1 : 14 January 2020), Anastasia Commaux in entry for Joseph Rosamundo Leblanc, bn. 1794, bt. 1796.
9. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WV-2XV : 14 January 2020), Margarita Comaux in entry for Agusto Leblanc, 1798.
10. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WJ-5RT : 14 January 2020), Maria Commaux in entry for Simon Pedro Leblanc, bn. 1800, bt. 1801.
11. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WV-LZD : 14 January 2020), Margarita Commaux in entry for Maria Carmelita Leblanc, 1803.
12. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WV-RTL : 14 January 2020), Margarita Comaux in entry for Silesia Leblanc, 1805.
13. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WK-JN2 : 14 January 2020), Marguerite Caumau in entry for Rosalie Leblanc, 1807.
14. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WK-WKS : 14 January 2020), Margarita Comaux in entry for Juan Maria Leblanc, 1809.
15. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WV-6BN : 14 January 2020), Marguerite Anastasia Comaux in entry for Modesta Leblanc, 1811.
16. ↑ Rev. Donald J. Hebert, South Louisiana Records: Lafourche~Terrebonne, 1794-1840, Vol. 1, (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's Publishing 1978) p. 343;

    LEBLANC, Claude Marie m. Marguerite Anastasie COMMO Inventory: 15 February 1816. (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: Year 1810)