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clear that Marie Marguerite Sauvestre or Souvestre was the mother of both Marie Marguerite and Marianne, as well as Jean fils.
Catherine Bazil, who had accompanied the family on their journey to Louisiana, had been Jean Arluc?s second wife; her only surviving child with Jean was Etienne Arluc, bom in 1723.
With the use of the above information, it has been possible to identify some of Marie Marguerite Arluc?s ancestors in French parish registers, and to learn something of their lives before they came to Louisiana.
Marie Marguerite?s maternal grandparents were Jean Sauvestre and Elizabeth Forestier. They married in Brouage, Charente-Maritime, on 23 August 1654:
Le vingt troisieme jour d?Aoust 1654 a este donne la benediction nuptiale a Jean Sauvestre et a Elisabeth Forestier de cette ville de Brouage en presence des soussignes
The twenty third day of August 1654 the nuptial benediction has been given to Jean Sauvestre and Elizabeth Forestier of this town in the presence of the undersigned
Jean Sauvestre, the groom, signed the register. Although the marriage record does not identify the parents of either party, I believe it is likely that Elizabeth?s parents were Jean Forestier and Magdeleine Rousse: this couple had a daughter Elizabeth, baptized in Brouage on 28 December 1625.
The birthplace and parents of Jean Sauvestre remain unknown.
Jean Sauvestre and Elizabeth Forestier had at least three children, all daughters, and all baptized at St. Nicolas in La Rochelle:
Catherine, baptized 6 July 1659
Jeanne, baptized 10 August 1662
Marie Marguerite, baptized 9 January 1665
Of these three daughters, Catherine, the oldest, married first, on 21 November 1678 to Pierre Bazil, at Notre Dame in La Rochelle.
The father of the bride, Jean Sauvestre, was described as sergeant of police.
The next of the Sauvestre daughters to marry was Jeanne, who wed Valentin Baudouin on 21 June 1683, again at Notre Dame, La Rochelle.
Both the bride?s father, Jean Sauvestre, and her brother-in-law, Pierre Bazil, were witnesses.