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Antoine Negrier (Negrie) was bom in the parish of St. Vien, City and Diocese of Saintes, France, according to his second marriage record. This diocese is in what is now called the Department of Charente-Maritime. Before 1770 it was called Province of Saintonge. We have been unable to pinpoint St. Vien, but there is a city in France called Saintes with a population of 26,000. St. Vien parish could be the nearby parish of St. Vivien. The first marriage record of Antoine to Marguerite Beguine states that his parents were “Francois Negrier and Marie Burelle.”
The first record of Antoine in this country is in 1721, the year he married his first wife. Assuming he was around 20 years old at the time he was married, we will, for the time, say he was born around 1701. The last record we have of him is in the 1770 census of St. Bernard Parish, LA. He was apparently living in that area near his daughter and son-in-law, Andre Louis Giraud. With this census information, we will assume that he died and was buried in St. Bernard Parish after the year 1770. As of this time, we have nothing to indicate that Antoine came to this country with any of his immediate family.
He probably came to this country around 1718 and landed first in the area that is now Ocean Springs, MS. He later moved to Fort St. Louis, (this is where the lighthouse now stands in Biloxi) where he married his first wife, Marguerite Beguine, on June 4, 1721 (St. Louis Cathedral Marriage Book A, p. 27, act 74). Her parents listed were Jean Baptiste Beguine and Marguerite Souverene. Her place of birth was not listed.
Antoine was a carpenter by trade. He is listed in the 1721 Biloxi census with his new wife and no children that year. In 1726 Antoine, his wife, with no children listed were living on Bourbon St. in New Orleans. In 1732 a “Negrier” is living in New Orleans and the record only shows him as a “foreman.”
Marguerite apparently died in New Orleans, leaving Antoine with no children. He moved back to Mobile where he met and married his second wife, Madeleine Rouger, on March
10,	1737 (Mobile Cathedral Marriage Book I, p. 19, act 3). This marriage record names his parents as “Francois Negrier and Marie Bouribe.” Madeleine Rouger was a widow with children by a previous marriage. She and her children will be discussed in a forthcoming section.
Following their marriage in 1737, Antoine and Madeleine Negrier had two children in the Mobile area. They were:
1.	Catherine Negrier - bom around 1738 and married Jacque Bonitte.
2.	Antoine Negrier - born around 1740 and married Anne Marie Bagotty. They had at least one child: Anne Marianna that married Jarge Thermaire.
For reasons unknown, Antoine, Madeleine, his children, and her children by a previous marriage moved to the New Orleans area. It was there that their two last known children were born:
3.	Jeanne Negrier - bom around 1743 and baptized January 18, 1745. She married Andre Louis Giraud and has already been discussed in this research.
4.	Marguerite Negrier - born January 20, 1748 and died August 29, 1795, according to the records at St. Louis Cathedral. She married twice. First to Hely Gignion on
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