Nicolas Arceneaux

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Nicolas (also known as Paul) Arceneaux was the youngest son of Pierre Arceneaux, fils and Angelique Bourgeois. He was Baptized at age 5 months at Attakapas, LA in March 1799. Sadly, this was 3 months after his father died.

Nicolas grew up in Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche but did not remain there.

Nicolas Arceneaux (1798-1841) was the husband of Marie Carmelite Breaux (known as Carmelite) (1800-1868). Married 8/25/1818 Plattenville, Assumption Parish, LA. It has also been reported that Nicolas & Carmelite were known to have been cousins.

By the mid 1820's they had settled in the Lafourche Interior Parish, Louisiana. Their daughters married into the Barrios and the Roger families. The couple also had 5 sons; 4 who had families of their own and settled into the Thibodaux-Raceland area of Louisiana.

The 5 sons names were listed as follows:

• Jean Honore' Arceneaux, the oldest son born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May, 1826. He married Marie Cesaire (called Cesaire), the daughter of Jacques Matherne & Marie Sevin at the Thibodaux Church, Lafourche Interior Parish, April, 1852. Two sons named: Zephirin Arceneaux, born 1866 and Joseph Arceneaux, March 1870.
• Nicolas Arceneaux, fils, b Lafourche Interior Parish, January 1831. He married Eugenie, daughter of Jean Adam Lasseigne & Marie Pache' at Raceland Church, Lafourche Parish in February 1855.
• Leufroi Arceneaux, died in Lafourche Interior Parish, 15 days after birth in December 1833.
• Louis Disire' Arceneaux, born Lafourche Interior Parish, April 1842. Married Ze'olide, the 16 year old daughter of fellow Acadian, Victor Melancon and Farelie Savoie in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Parish in January 1860. Son Louis, fils Arceneaux was born near Raceland in January 1863.
• Onesippe or Onesime Arceneaux, born in the early 1840's in Lafourche Interior Parish, Louisiana. He married Edesie (called Desie), the daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Giroir and Anne dit Nanette Moise at Lockport Church, Lafourche Parish, September 1863. Their son, Joachim Elphege Arceneaux was born near Lockport in August 1864. Later in the decade, they were living in Assumption Parish, up Bayou.

Burial is in the Holy Savior Church Cemetery, Lockport, Lafourche Parish, LA.

Sources:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56858907/nicholas-arceneaux

http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-ARCENEAUX.htm#ARCENEAUX