Claude Trepaniere

• Claude Trepagnier Find A Grave Memorial# 101870828
• Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA

Claude died in the Louisiana territory. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase. The acquisition of the Louisiana territory from France by the United States in 1803

Claude was born to early settlers of the Quebec region of Canada, Romain from Normandy and Genevieve Drouin daughter to Robert and Ann Cloutier. His parents marriage was the first documented for New France. The Drouin church records established a solid historical record of all the French Canadian births, marriages and deaths starting from from early 1600's.

Claude enlisted with his youngest brother, Jean in a militia campaign led by the command of M. D'lberville and traveled back to his ancestral home Normandy from Quebec to depart on August 1699 for Fort Maurepas on the Mississippi river for what would become Louisiana. Unfortunately, Jean died "at sea" somewhere near Biloxi on Dec 1699 at the age of 25. Claude went on to establish himself in New Orleans as one of the founding families of the region.

When New Orleans was founded in 1718, the young French Canadian Claude, as a reward for his participation in the expedition, Claude Trepagnier was granted a plot of land where he constructed his home. His property is now part of Jackson Square where Muriel's stands today. The restaurant Muriel's states this in their history; http://www.muriels.com/html/history.html. In a city plan 'Plan De La Ville De La Nouvelle Orleans', the map drawn by de LaTour, dated 1722 shows when facing Jackson Square and the cathedral, Claude Trepagnier owns the first house to the right/North of the cathedral on the corner Rue St Anne & Rue de Conde.

Claude married Genevieve Elisabeth Burel in Mobile, Alabama, in 1704 and together they raised a large Catholic family until his early death in Kenner, Jefferson, Louisiana, United States. Claude died in Chatouachas about 9 miles from New Orleans, shortly after moving his family to that area. The plantation was near Kenner, LA. History says he was killed in November 1724 by an Indian while visiting the Chauvin Delerys plantation.

• the reference to U.S.A. as the country where Claude died prior to the Louisiana purchase of 1803 is incorrect by historical accounts and should be France but the limitations of the Find A Grave format defaults to common day Louisiana and United States.
  • Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 6 2016, 1:28:42 UTC

From "Old Families of Louisiana"

An erudite Canadian genealogist says that the primitive name of the Trépagnier family was de Trépagny. For the last century or more, he asserts, it has been written as Trépanier, but by referring to the older Canadian records, one discovers that this family name has seen many transformations. In Louisiana, Claude de Trépagny (or Trepagnier), the founder of the family in that colony, signed his name as Trépanier. His son, François, adopted the form of Trépagnié. Since then the family has used the name of Trépagnier.

Claude, born in Canada, probably at Chateau-Richer, who came to Louisiana and became the founder of the Trépagnier family in that colony. Claude Trépagnier and his wife, who was Genevieve Burel (or Burel), were established at the Mobile Post at the time of its foundation. Their names are often met in the old records from 1708 to 1710 in which they are designated as traders or merchants. Genevieve Burel Trépagnier had a sister, Jeanne Burel, who was married before 1708 to François Trudeau, a Canadian merchant, doing business at the Mobile Post from 1708 to 1710. The Burel sisters were pious and virtuous Canadians who landed at Fort Louis de la Mobile during the summer of 1704, from the ship Le Pélican.

According to the census of the Mobile Post, dated June 28, 1721, Claude Trépagnier lived then, with his wife and seven children, in the village of the Apalaches or St. Louis. He died at the Chatouachas in 1724, leaving an estate which Antoine Bruslé, member of the Superior Council and estimator, valued at 27,104 livres. According to a plan of New Orleans, dated 1728, Genevieve Burel, his widow, owned at that time a house and lot, number 7, at the corner of Chartres and St. Ann streets, where she lived with her children.

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 13 2018, 1:58:26 UTC