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land owned by the family. I believe the name was shortened to De Gruis, as that name appears in the New Orleans phone book. Dufourchaud does not, although Dufour does appear, and there is a Dufrechou, and Degruy.
Delery - de la Chaise
The mother of Pierre Achille Seuzeneau was Marie Amie' Chauvin Delery. Her mother was Marie de la Chaise. The Delery and de la Chaise families were prominent and historic. Both of the families are included in the book, Old Families of Louisiana, by Stanley Clisby Arthur. I have included two chapters:	(1) Chauvin - De
Lery - La Freniere Family, and (2) D' Arensbourg Family. Karl Frederick D' Arensbourg from Sweden was the grandfather of Marie de la Chaise Delery. That makes him our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. You can read about your distant, albeit direct, ancestors in the document section.
Read with attention and you will discover many anecdotes of historic and human interest about our ancestors. For example, at page 181, D' Arensbourg chapter, Marie de la Chaise who married Francois Chauvin de Lery became the mother of 22 children. At page 244, Chauvin - De Lery - La Freniere chapter is recorded she had 10 children. She probably had 22, but most died as infants.
Second Family
Uncle Albert and Aunt Lil traveled to Mexico on one of their trips. I recall Uncle Albert telling us (Teen, Daddy, me - others) that he discovered his great-grandfather, the American consul at Matamoros, had abandoned his family in New Orleans and taken up with a woman in Mexico who bore him many children. All other details of that story were either not furnished, or I have forgotten.
As I was drafting and researching this section, I first intended to ignore this unsubstantiated fragment of historical gossip. The urge to be as thorough as possible caused me to place a telephone call to an archivist in Brownsville, Texas. I spoke with Yolanda Gonzales at the library at the University of Texas at Brownsville. She expressed a great interest and indicated to me that she was familiar with the name Seuzeneau.
I have had several telephone conversations with Ms. Gonzales and written several times. She tells me the pressures of her job at the University (they are switching to some new computer system) have interfered with her Seuzeneau research.
In any event, she has not, in one year, forwarded any documents. She did furnish the following information during several telephone conversations:
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