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A GENEALOGY
THE MOORE-CANNETTE FAMILY OF NORTH BILOXI
ST. MARTIN COMMUNITY
by Brother Jerome Lepre', S.C.
FOREWORD
In writing a paper such as this one, it is of necessity that the author limit himself to as few lines of ancestry as possible. But these should be important ones, lines which are unbroken and which all culminate in direct lineage to the Moore-Cannette family group.
The Moore genealogy itself is unknown, simply because so many pertinent details regarding the parents of Charles Edward Moore have never come to light. This is unfortunate, but with the abundance of material on the Cannette family background, the paper will give a clear genealogical introduction to the ancestors on the maternal side.
Documentation comes from many sources, primary of which are the Gulf Coast Catholic Diocesan and Parish Archives, New Orleans to Mobile, the Chancery Court Archives of Harrison and Jackson Counties and the Louisiana State Historical Museum, to name a f?v.
The paper is divided into six sections: Fayard, Lafontaine, Baudreau and Canet lines, a section on the Moore-Cannette Family itself, and assorted papers and contributions by members of the family.
The author is indebted to the Moore family for their many courtesies, helpful hints and information that contributed so much to make the paper possible.
PART I FAYARD ANCESTRY
Nicolas FISSEAU m. Marianne LeGARENNE
Jean FAYARD m. Francoise FISSEAU
Louis FAYARD m. Martha GARGARET
Alexis FAYARD m. Martha RYAN
James PARKER m. Marie Cecile FAYARD
Louis GROUE m. Marie PARKER
Armand CANNETTE m. Emilie GROUE
Charles Edward MOORE m. Viola Celina CANNETTE
The MOORE Family
Much of the history regarding the early FAYARD ancestors is to be found in the "Mississippi Coast Historical and Genealogical Society, Volume 18, Number 1, February 1982, pp. 1-12 by Brother Jerome Lepre', S.C. A capsulized version of the FAYARD family is given here.
Jean Faillard dit Lalancette (he signs "Fayard") was a soldier of France in New Orleans during the 1740's as attested to by the census of troops ordered taken by Governor Vaudreuil (1743-1753). Jean was married to Francoise Fisseau, born in the colony of Nicholas Fisseau and Marianne Legare (LaGarenne). Jean, as would be expected of any soldier, was transferred to Natchitoches shortly after his marriage and it is there that his first two children were born.
When Nicholas Fisseau died in the early 1730's he left a small estate but died intestate. After some time the Widow Fisseau married Pierre DeLorme, also a soldier, yet remaining in the Fisseau home. When Jean and Francoise saw that Marieanne (Fisseau) DeLorme was selling off parts of the estate to her benefit and that of her only other child, another daughter, Jean instituted a suit in the French Provincial Council to obtain what was his wife's just due from the Fisseau estate. This brought them back to New Orleans, where it seems they remained. The suit was successful, in that the effects of the estate were sold and a proper court-directed settlement was made on June 1, 1748. But one can imagine how little was eventually divided among the mother and her two daughters, given the debts against the estate. Jean's efforts brought forth the court settlement which he had intended. The final decision by the court follows
Between Jean Fayard, called La Lancette, in the name of and as being married to Francoise Fisseau, Plaintiff, and Pierre de Lorme in the name of and as being married to Marianne LaGarenne,
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