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The Sauion Family - During the eighteenth century the small village of St. Terre, in what is now the Department of Gironde in France, produced a great number of men of the sea. Its proximity to the Dordogne River offered its men such opportunity; and, as will be seen in this paper, the attraction of the water was something to which it was easy to succumb. For this area, Bordeaux has always been the great inland port located on the Garonne River. The confluence of the Dordogne and Garonne Rivers takes place west of Bordeaux, where the waters of both rivers flow as one out into the Atlantic Ocean as the Gironde River. Gilles Saujon, who came to the United States in 1848 and who became the progenitor of the Saujons of the Gulf Coast, came from a long line of seamen. This line can be accurately traced back and documented to Jean Saujon and Jeanne Chalon, his wife. This couple were married at St.Terre on Nov. 6, 1734.
Sauion Book Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Background p 1 Chapter 3 The Early Family p 26 Chapters Peter Saujon p 34 Chapter 7 Mary Cornelia Saujon p 47 Chapter 9 Joseph Antoine Saujon p 61 Chapter 11 Laurent Victor Saujon p 72
Family Names Appearing in the Sauion Book: Abli, Barteau, Boney, Bosarge, Boulet, Boulet, Campos, Carco, Conner, Courret, Creel, DeGeorge, Delaunay, DeSilvey, Diaz, Double, Etherton, Fayard, Gollott, Grantham, Harvey, Husley, Ibele, King, Ladner, Lepre, Moran, Morin, Necaise, Panguinet, Paquet, Parker, Pyron, Quave, Santa Cruz, Saucier, Seale, Seaman, Seymour, Trochesset, Wescovich
The Seymour Family - The earliest known documented evidence of the exact origin if the Seymour family is the marriage between Genevieve Baudreau of Pascagoula and Charles LeBlanc of Pennsylvania, son of Thomas and Perrine LeBlanc. No contemporary documentation during the period 1780 - 1790 disputes this. The marriage record had been in the author's holdings, but he did not know who Charles LeBlanc was. It remained dormant for years in his possession. The marriage between Charles and Genevieve was held in St. Louis parish church of New Orleans on 1 September 1783 and presided over by the famous, or infamous, "Pere Antoine," the Rev. Antonio de Sedella, a Spanish Capuchin priest. (SLC, MB4, #155). Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline came to the Mississippi Coast with Iberville in 1699. He immediately became a planter, a cattle owner, a cattle breeder and a mentor to others who settled here. Bom on his dad's plantation in the West Pascagoula area, grew up there and eventually married Catherine Vinconneau of France. They had four children, one of whom was Jean Baptiste 111. This Jean Baptiste 111 built up a liaison with Mary Louise Fayard of New Orleans and had a family of five children, Jean Baptiste IV, Margaret, Angelique, Genevieve and Francoise. The first three always used the name Baudreau, the other two, because of the non-marriage condition of their parents, used the name of their mother, Fayard. It is the daughter, Genevieve, who interests us here because she was to become the wife of Charles LeBlanc, and, together, the parents of St. Cyr Joseph LeBlanc, alias Seymour. This Baudreau family has permeated the Gulf Coast with its descendants under various names. Only one known child was bom of the marriage between Charles LeBlanc and Genevieve Baudreau. His name was St. Cyr Joseph LeBlanc, bom in 1788, as noted on his tomb in the oldest section of the Biloxi cemetery near the beach.
Seymour Book Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Origin of the Seymours p 1 Chapter 3 St. Cyr Joseph LeBlanc, alias Seymour p 8 I - Edward Seymour p 17 III - Pierre Seymour p 123 V - Lazarus Seymour p 241 VII - Josephine Seymour p 327 Appendix 1 Photographs p 378
Family Names Appearing in the Seymour Book: (Partial Index List - Not Completed as of05/14/08) Abies, Adamo, Adams, Adamson, Adkins, Agazarm, Ahsen, Ainsworth, Albert, Albritton, Alexander, Alford, Allemand, Allen, Alley, Alvarez, Alves, Amadio, Ames, Anderson, Badgley, Bailey, Baird, Balius,
Chapter 2 The Baudreau Family p 5 Chapter 4 The First Couple p 13 II - Jean Baptiste p 53 IV - Narcisse Seymour p 240 VI - Victoria Seymour p 323 VIII - St Cyr Seymour p 328
Chapter 2 Washington Landing p 22
Chapter 4 Sacramental Records ? Census of 1860 p 32
Chapter 6 Robert Martin Saujon p 40
Chapter 8 Pamela Marie Saujon p 53
Chapter 10 Zulime Clara Saujon p 66
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