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The Moore-Connette Fomily
widow of Nicholas Fisseau, defendant. On the request made by Jean Fayard ordained and processed on the date of May 22 last, the said request exhibited that, since the death of Nicholas Fisseau, it is known he left things in favor of his two daughters. The demand is made after having married knowing he had left goods for a|| to use: a house on stakes and posts of earth, with two levels of land, one Negro man, one Negro woman and a Negro child. Marianne LaGarenne, mother of the two daughters, had already sold a third of the land, and fearing that it was at the request of Pierre de Lorme, her husband, with whom she contracted a second marriage, it was thought that she was going to divert the rest from her children. It is asked that Mr. DeLorme on the first part be condemned to wash his hands of the division of the property and participation in the inheritance of his wife, so as to get all for his wife rather than for his sister-in-law. For this he uses the total including expenses and ask that DeLorme render an account leaving everything together. The general trial is heard and the Council has ordained and does ordain that for equity in the division, the Council orders that movables of the succession are to be sold, returns are to be divided, after raising what comes to the widow. The lot and house are to be sold judicially, to the profit of the heirs. The succession is to bear the costs. (June 1, 1748 -Decision *12 - Louisiana State Museum.)
The family grew quickly. Between 1744, when Marie Anne was born in Natchitoches, and 1763, Jean and Francoise were the parents of eight children. Another, Francois, is in all probability a son of theirs, but the record has deteriorated so much that, other than for his name, dates and names are illegible. In order of birth the children were Marie Anne, Marie Louise, Pierre, Jean (Baptiste), Andre, Louis, Pierre, Feliciteand, most probably, the Francois mentioned above.
Louis, from whom the Moore genealogy w ill be traced, was born January 29, 1748, and probably spent most of his early years in New Orleans.
On March 29, 1758, I, a Capuchin missionary
apostolic priest, ha/e supplied the ceremonies of
baptism to Louis Fayard, born on January 29, 1748,
of the legitimate marriage of Jean Fayard and
Francoise Fissot,.his father and mother. The child
had as godparents Louis Bernard and Marie Francoise
Gauthier, who declared they could not sign. In
faith of which I have signed the day and year as
above.	c
/dd in o-> c? ?	Father	Pierre
(BB III, p. 93, St. Louis
Cathedral)
Sometime in the early 1780's, Louis met Martha Gargaret of New Orleans. After the usual courtship, their marriage took place in New Orleans on June 1, 1781 (MB 1, p. 106, Act 203, S.L.C.)
On June 1, 1781, after presenting themselves to the judge vicar of the province of New Orleans and pastor of the parish of St. Louis, Luis Fayard and Martha Gargare by matrimonial contract and the publication of the three banns on the appointed days, according to the prescriptions of the Council of Trent and with no canonical impediments, give each other by mutual consent; that is,
Luis Fayard, native of Deer Island, legitimate son of Pedro (Jean) Fayard and Francisca Broussea (Fisseau), his parents, and Martha Gargare, legitimate daughter of Miguel Gargare and Martha Ocqui (Paquet) her parents, give their mutual consent in spoken words to this true and legitimate marriage, in presence of the witnesses, Carlos Vanteur, Daniel Santo,
Santiago Dupre, Juan Bautista Olivier, on the 15th day of the same month and year above sign their signatures. (MB 1, p. 106,
Act 203 of St. Louis Cathedral.)
Father Cyrillo de Barcelona
(It must be said in all candor that there is no certain date as to when the FAYARD family came to the Coast. In two documents Louis is listed first as a native of Pass Christian and, second, as a native of Deer Island. Yet there is no evidence whatever that his parents, Jean and Francoise, lived on the Gulf Coast.
Francoise's sister, Marie Louise, had married at an earlier date, probably during the 1750's, to Jean Baptiste Christian Ladner, a first generation Ladner, and she was living even at that time in the Bay St. Louis area where her family was reared.)
The earliest reference to the effect that Louis and Martha were living in the Biloxi area is that Louis' name appears on a Spanish grant to Jacques Mathurin (Ladner) and Nicholas Carcaux dated April 28, 1784 (Mobile County Genealogical Library, Mobile, Ala.), in which this property's boundaries are given. Since land from a grant had to be lived on or cultivated, it may even be that Louis and Mortha had lived on the Coast from shortly after their marriage.
To his honor, Henry Grimarest, Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry, Civil and Military Governor of the Town of Mobile and its District.
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