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Family Names Appearing in the Delaunay Book: Adams, Bass, Bayhi, Beale, Berry, Boney, Bosarge, Butler, Castanera, Charbonnet, Cruthirds, Dapremont, Dassett, Delamarre, Desporte, Diaz, D'Orville, Dowling, Dukate, Fayard, Fountain, Galle, Giraud, Gollott, Harris, Harvey, Henley, Ireland, Jannett, Keel, Kuhn, Ladner, Malley, Martin, Moran, O'Keefe, Prados, Provensal, Reaut, Richardson, Rosato, Roux, Ryan, Sanchez, Santa Cruz, Saujon, Scarbrough, Schoolcraft, Seaman, Sentier, Seymour, Sherry, Smith, Thomas, Tiblier, Tremmel, Vallen, Vanserand, Verrier, Wooten
The Pespau Family - In the mid-eighteenth century) the town of Liboume was a busy little place, the home of vineyard keepers, vine-dressers and fishermen. Liboume is a town in the Gironde Department of southwestern France, northeast of Bordeaux. It was in this setting that we find a young man, Jean Despau (Lespaut, as he is sometimes referred to), working as a sailor for France. He was bom at Aubin, known later as St. Aubin de Blaignac and now St. Aubin de Branne, of which the parochial registers from 1693 to 1755 are lost. Jean made the acquaintance of Marie Sigalas from the place of Les Fontaines, a suburb of Liboume. On September 8, 1749, he and Marie appeared at the home of her aunt, Madame Marie Chamaillard, where the following contract of marriage was drawn up.
Despau Book Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Early Despau Family in France p 1 Chapter 3 Marriage of Guillaume Despau p 12 Chapter 5 Separation Proceedings p 57 Chapter 7 Death of Marie Sophie Despau p 107
Family Names Appearing in the Despau Book: Bousquet, Caillavet, Carriere, Chamaillard, Chandelot, Chaurce, Chretien, Clark, Coltaut, Coueve, de Maryon, DeMarueon, Desgranges, Fayard, Feyne, Fizane, Lafaure, Lassabe, Lougis, McMahon, Morejon, Reynoir, Sigilas, Sophie, Tamidoni
The Fontaine and Lafontaine Family - The Fontaine name is well known on the Biloxi Gulf Coast, because the progenitor of this family moved to Biloxi around the early 1830's. He married Julienne Ladner, daughter of Jean Baptiste and Julienne Lafontaine. Their family was reared in Harrison County just west of the Harrison-Jackson line. Nine of the twelve children bom to this couple have been greatly responsible for a great number of descendants now counted in this area. Francois' nine sons did yeoman work in charcoal, lumbering, gardening and in seafood work during	their early years.	All were	successful, as	well	as the
three girls. Julienne preceded him in death by twelve years.	Jean	Frederique	dit	Lafontaine	was	from
Maulins, in eastern France. He came to the New World in the teens of the 1700's along with other prospective settlers as a soldier, I presume. He married Marie Isbette Lavallee in New Orleans and had about eight children. It is possible that a very old man living in Ocean Springs in 1814, and who said that he was over 100 years, was Jean Frederique. He is supposed to have died in 1826. This man's descendants were more prominent first in New Orleans, then, in a major move by most of the family in the 1780's and 1790's to the Gulf Coast. It is noted above that Francois Fontaine's wife was the daughter of one of Louis Auguste's daughters, Julienne. Except for this marriage connection, the two lines seldom if ever meet, and, certainly are not of the same stock or descendancy.
Chapter 2 Guillaume Despau p 7 Chapter 4 Settlement in Opelousas p 13 Chapter 6 Death of Guillaume Despau p 93
Fountain Book Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction p 1
Chapter 3 The Ladner Heritage p 20
Chapter 5 The Bourgeois Heritage p 51
Chapter 7 The Early Years p 83
Chapter 9 Francois'Will p 100
Chapter 11 Francis "Frank" Fountain p 116
Chapter 13 Louis Fountain p 156
Chapter 15 Emmanuel Fountain p 183
Chapter 17 Marie Jeanne "Fanny" Fountain p 196
Chapter 19 Pierre "Peter" Fountain p 223
Chapter 21 Claude "Glaude" Fountain p 236
Appendix A The Fountain Cemetery p 258
Chapter 2 The Baudreau Family p 7 Chapter 4 The Fayard Heritage p 36 Chapter 6 The Lafontaine Heritage p 67 Chapter 8 Making A Living p 95 Chapter 10 Family Division of Land p 106 Chapter 12 Jean Baptiste Fountain p 131 Chapter 14 Julienne Fountain p 169 Chapter 16 Anne Fountain p 186 Chapter 18 Antoine Fountain p 210 Chapter 20 Christophe Fountain p 226 Chapter 22 Martin Fountain p 245 Appendix B Fountain Documents p 269
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