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Kiss. Coast Historical & .Genealogical Society Vol. No. 12, Nos. 3 & *+ February 1977
"Some F.arliest Mississippi Families" — r> 6 — jzyK'z by.Mrs. John D. Mors quoting Cathedral of the Imr.'aculate Conception In I' bile, Ala.
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"On the 23th day of Fay, one thousand eighteen hundred and two, I, Don Juan Vaugeois-,' Pastor of the the Church of Our Lady of the Conception of Mobile, ..	^	-
solemnly baptized in the house of^ggt’roSFay^arcT’’at	<; ^ dr-til****
!g^^:t^-Lpuis. . . . twins who were born on the 8th day^^lpri IP*. . . of/^alentin Bourgeois and Marie y Luisa Ladner, . . named Francisco and „Maxirciliano.
Paternal grandparents Francisco .Bourgeois and Mariana Fayard; maternal grandparenFs~Juan Bautista Ladner and Marie Luise Fisseau. . ."
All these quotations are from certified photocopies of the origins! records. "Pedro" '"’ayard is the Spanish for the French Pierre Fayard, or the English Peter Fayard. "Juan Bautista" is Spanish for the French Jean Baotiste, or the English John Baptist.
:Tote thpt the historic little town of Bay St. Louis was known
in 1802 as Bay St. Louis. ^ILS^later^the' area'- was temp oraii^Ly:
.again "Bay St. Louis.J* ,,