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On Hay 8, I860, the civil carriage between Loujs Groue and Kary
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took place.	No	locality Is	mentioned, but It was not	uncommon in	those days thst^^w?n
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the Justice of the Peace would perfons the ceremony at the hone of the bride or groom. Ry	this	time there were many, household^ on the.North side	of the Back Bay,
so that one	can	imagine the	large concourse of people	bearing the	faalllsr name*^
of Fountain, Bcaugez, Bosarge, Foretich, Seymour, Boney, Ladner, (>iave, Saujoo, * *
tyoran, Santa Cruz, to name Just a few.
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The small chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the AasumptLon had been con* structed on the North side of the Back Bay in 1860 but there was n? resident
pastor.	p
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,	This Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, built at Back Bay by the religious care of Hr.
Manuel Sanchez and Philippine Sanchez, his wife, was erected aqd opened to the Catholic worship by Father	*
Henri Ceorget, pastor of the Church of the Nativity at Biloxi and of the Catholic Congregation of Back Bay, on the 16th day of August, 1860, *east of St. Hyacinth.
(Book 3. Nativity Cathedral, Bilobti.)
' 1 N It was not until 1871	that the blessing of the marriage between Louis	"./A**
and M.irlo took pln<^o. In fact,	most of the	blessings of the marriages among ths	*?
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Hack Kay couples, contracted in	the 1860's,	took place in the earl, 1870*a.
Despite the tardiness In having	their civil	marrlagea biassed, most, If.not all^
of the old generation were married In tfhe Catholic church. The exceptions STS
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very feu. ^nd it is quite possible that, in tha case of tha exceptlona, tha V* *^>2 0-
priest lose the information or forgot to record tha bleaslngs; for It la even '' i^Vy?i
rer th.it a Catholic couple did not have their children baptized.
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sine ot the civil marriage between Louis and Marie took place
On M.iv 3, 1871, I blessed the marriage of Louis Groux and Haile Paca. The witnesses wsre Francois Fontaine and Marla . ?<%l Fournier. (Book 2, p. 49, Act 280.)
Rev. N. Berchea, CSSR