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On January 6, 1796,] I, .Father Flnao da Peleagonsalo, a Captfchln rellgloua and In charge of the Sanctuary, church of thla Holy Cathedral Church of Nev, Orleana, baptised and put the Holy Oils to a boy born on January 6, of the-past . year of 1794, the legitimate son of Louis LalanteW, a ' '**?**> native of Pass Christian, snd Marta Cargatet, a native of this city. Paternal grandparents are Juan Lalanget| and >r*
Pranclaca. Delong (Flsseau); maternal, Miguel Cargarla and Marta Piquet. Hit godparenta were Pedro Konle. and Franclsca Jacob Bfcngre. In the Holy Ceremonies the said boy Waa given the name Alexo. The godparenta vara advlaed of their aplri-tual parentage. Fqr thla I.sign. (St.-Louis Cathedral,.^
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Pather Finto de Peleangonaalo
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Alexis, no doubt, learned the varlousmejns of catching seafood and
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raising crops fro? his Dad, work that would keep hla veil occupied during his lifetime.	?4	1
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In the early church records of the C*lf Coast, aa maintained in the '
Cathedral Archives	of New Orleans,	Biloxi	and	Mobile, referencea are sude vhlch	?***
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would Indicate that Alexis lived from Bay	St.	Louis to Paacagoula at*varioua	times*
However, after his	marriage during	the second	decade of the 1800's to Martha
Ryan, his first cousin (their mothers were sisters), Alexis apparently moved to
acquire a large piece of property on Parker Creek and the Tchoutlcabouffa River*
In an article written about her grandmother, Rose Ceclle Fayard Parker,.
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a daughter of Alexia and Jtartha Croue, and sister to Marla, Hiss Marjorie '	?
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Stewart recounts the following about the property:	,
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"Mrs. (Jtose Ceclle Alexis Fayard owned three hundred elxty acres, or ooe section of lsndf-on vhlch ahe grew com, potatoea,	-	?
hay, cane, cotton and small vegetable crops vlth the help of sixteen slaves. The home was called 'Rose Hill1 and roae above the Tchoutlcabouffa River and Parker Creak. The family cemetery Is about three hundred yards from the original small vMte house with the original plaster still on ita walla. In jthe cemetery rest Alexis and Martha and aevaral descendaAta. .) ? f V jr
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"During the Civil War the Yankeea were camped at Rose Hill
farm near the brlcked-up well. They asked my grandmother If ' she would cook bread for then. She said ahe would, ao ahe and her daughtets baked bread vlth tha flour and other ingredients