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One other member of the Arluc family merits further comment. Jean Arluc fils accompanied his father and stepmother to Louisiana. He did not marry in the colony, although there is some evidence that he fathered a child by a slave in Mobile, and this child went on to leave many descendants in Plaquemines Parish.
Eventually he left his family in Louisiana and returned to France. Marcel Giraud, in his History of French Louisiana, notes that, after 1721, when contracts with their employers expired, many indentured servants returned to France, carrying with them tales of the perils of life in the new colony.
Presumably Jean Arluc was one of these dissatisfied workers. In 1726 he married Magdeleine Gautreau, the first cousin of his stepmother Catherine Bazil, in La Rochelle. Like his father, he was a ship?s carpenter.
As of 1748, when Catherine Bazil died, he had not returned to Louisiana, and his whereabouts were unknown to his family there.
The Arluc family has much to teach us about our early ancestors: the mobility of many people in France at that time; the personal trials and losses they endured; the courage of a forty-seven year old man moving his wife and children to the New World, with all its dangers and hardships; and the importance of their extensive family interconnections. If we dig deeply enough, those lessons are there for all to see, even today.
Comments or corrections are welcome.
Wayne C. Vial wvial@comcast.net
1	In Mobile and New Orleans records, the name is usually Arlu, or Arlut/Harlut.
However, as will become apparent later, Arluc is more historically correct. It is also how Jean Arluc signed his name. Arluc will be used unless referring to a specific document; then the actual spelling used will apply.
2	?List of officers, workers for the company, girls from the poorhouse of La Rochelle, soldiers and others embarked on the Marechal de Villars commanded by M. Meschlin bound for Louisiana from La Rochelle,? in Glenn R. Conrad, First Families of Louisiana, Volume I {Baton Rouge: Claitor?s Publishing Division, 1970), 29.
3	Ann Calagaz, editor, Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Mobile Volume 1 Section 1 1704-1739 (Mobile: Archdiocese of Mobile, 2002), 83, act #256.
4	?Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana,? Louisiana Historical Quarterly 12 (July 1929), 482.
Calagaz, Mobile Records, 91, act #281.
6 Calagaz, Mobile Records, 119, act #351.
71 am not aware of a baptismal record for Marie Anne Carriere. She was probably bom a year or more after Marie Josephe, possibly after her father?s death.
*	?Superior Council,? LHQ 12 (July 1929), 482.
9	?Superior Council,? LHQ 12 (July 1929), 482