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Now to the question of who was the mother of Magdeleine "Pany" Baudreau?
The best clue to who her mother was is found on a document pertaining to the estate of Marie "Marthe" Paquet. In this New Orleans civil record, Marthe's uncle, Michel Paquet, states Marthe was the "daughter of Pierre Paquet and Magdelaine Pany." This document, translated by Brother Jerome Lepre, is found in the October 1990 edition of the Mississippi Coast Historical & Genealogical Society magazine, page 93. He cited his source as The Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA, file dated March 19,1749. Please note that "Pany" is used as a LAST name for Magdelaine, indicating that was the last name of her father!
Searching the marriage records at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at Mobile, Alabama, in Marriage Book I, page 22a4- 22b (translated in the book "Love's Legacy," page 165, by Jacqueline Oliver Vidrine), we find the marriage of "Margueritte Panyouasas, native of Fort Conde of Mobile (implies she was born in Mobile, AL), daughter of Pierre Panyouasas, Chief of the Conchates (or Couchatis - spelling not clear)
and Marianne Panyouasas, of the Diocese of Quebec" to Mathias Berthelot, native of Chate_________, Isle
d'Orleans, Notre Dame Parish, Diocese of Saintes in Saintonge (France), son of Pierre Berthelot and Berthelemy Pinaceaud. The marriage took place on June 16,1738. Some people claim this Margueritte and the Susanne, known wife of Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, Sr. are one and the same person. Assuming this Margueritte Panyouasas was age 18 when she married in 1738, she would have been born about 1720.
The "Susanne" that bore a child by JBBG, Sr., if age 18 when her son, Jean Baptiste Baudreau, Jr., who was born in 1717, would herself have been born about 1699. Thus, it is not likely Susanne and Margueritte are one and the same person. Keep in mind that this "Susanne" was never found with a last name in any of the records, only that she was an "Indian" and the "daughter of a Great Chief."
Now to the "unnamed Indian" wife of Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, Sr. and mother of our Magdeleine "Pany" Baudreau. We estimate that Magdeleine "Pany" was born about 1708 as discussed earlier in this report. If her "unnamed Indian" mother was age 18 when she, Magdeleine "Pany" Baudreau, was born about 1708, her unnamed mother would have been born about the year 1690.
It is my conclusion that we have no direct evidence as to who the parents of "Susanne" are. The fact that she was an Indian and the daughter of a "Great Chief," seems to connect her, some-how, to Chief Pierre Panyouasas, possibly another daughter. I further believe that the "unnamed Indian" and the Margueritte Panyouasas are closely related, and probably sisters. There was only one Indian family in the Mobile, AL, area that used the "Panyouasas" name. When her (the unnamed Indian's) daughter, Marie "Marthe" Paquet, used the last name of "Pany" is seems obvious that this is a shortened version of "Panyouasas." Please note that in the Will of JBBG, Sr., he refers to his wife's (Susanne) father as a "Great Chief' and in the marriage record of Margueritte Panyouasas above, her father is also referred to as a "Chief."
The "unnamed Indian" is probably the first wife of Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, Sr. that died in "October 1713" on Massacre Island (Dauphin Island, Alabama today) as mentioned in correspondence by the Louisiana Governor at that time, Antoine Cadillac. This information is cited by Jay Higginbotham in his publication "Old Mobile", p. 442. Remember, Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, Jr. was born in 1717, and identified clearly as the son of JBBG, Sr. and the Indian, Susanne. This further indicates that "Susanne" and the "unnamed Indian" wife of JBBG, Sr. are two different people. This information also shows that Margueritte Panyouasas and Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, Sr.'s first Indian wife, cannot be the same person. Based on the above, I have assigned 1690 as the year of birth for JBBG, Sr.'s first Indian wife, and 1720 for Margueritte Panyouasas. With a possible 30 year difference, how could they be sisters? We know that
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