Joseph Gregoire Guillory

The Avoyelles Parish, LA Guillory family stems from the immigrant, Simon Guillory, who was born 1646 at Chartres sur Cher, Diocese of Blois, formerly part of Orleans Province, now part of Loire at Cher (district 41), located just a five minute drive West of Vierzon, France. Simon arrived at the city of Quebec on May 25, 1664 aboard the ship, “Le Noir”, which had sailed from LaRochelle, France (letter from R.J. Auger, Archives du Quebec, to Byron Smith of New Orleans, LA., dated 29 Jan. 1975). On the 1666 Census of Montreal, GUILLORY is listed as a gunsmith, an employee of Charles LEMOYNE (Father of Bienville and Iberville).
Simon is the only GUILLORY listed in Tanguay (Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes I, IV, 1957 reprinted) in the appropriate generation.

Simon Guillory and Louise Bouchard were married at Montreal, Canada on November 6, 1667. His age at the time was listed as 21. Louise was listed as being 20.

Simon Guillory was at Ft. Albany in 1682, after the fort had been taken by Lemoyne’s troops from the British, when the British took possession of the fort again from the French.
Simon was put in "irons" for murdering the surgeon & priest, at the fort, with an ax. The British took him to England as a prisoner but by 1696 (the year of his death) he was back in New France.

It was Simon Guillory’s descendant, Joseph Gregoire Guillory, son of Francois GUILLORY and Marie Jeanne Montfort, who moved his family, which was at Mobile, Alabama at the time, to the Opelousas area, and from there to Avoyelles Parish around 1787.

FRANCOIS GUILLORY, a sailor, born March 18, 1676 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, died ca Aug 20, 1739 in Alabama; buried at the Old Catholic Cemetery, Mobile, AL
Married MARIE JEANNE MONTFORT/MANFORT, daughter of NICHOLAS MONFORT/MANFORT and RENEE SAMZUN, born Feb 8, 1692/93 in Belle-Isle-En-Mer, Brittany, France, died unkn. Married 1710/11 Mobile, AL
Francois Guillory had arrived in colonial Louisiana (Mobile, Alabama) c1707-1708 from Montreal and established himself on the eastern end of Dauphin Island (then called Massacre Island).

From the internet: “Francois moved to Massacre Island [Mobile, Alabama] and began planting vegetables. By 1710, he had built a house on the eastern end of that island, on the point given the name POINTE A GUILLORY. (The Names Pointe a Guillory, Passes a Guillory, and Isle a Guillory, appear on a map done in 1718, Jay Higginbotham, Old Mobile. Mobile City Museum, 1977, pp. 271, 345, 391, 393, 397f, 447f: Appendix, n.p.) However, it is possible that he remained unmarried for several years after founding a habitation on the island.”
What is known is that he was a sailor (mentioned as "matelot" on a note taken from page 27 Rencensements, a manuscript copy of French Archives at the Louisiana Historical Museum Library in New Orleans, LA.), seems to be the Francois baptized on 18 Mar. 1676 at Montreal, the son of Simon GUILLORY and Louise BOUCHARD..

A) JOSEPH (PIERRE) GREGOIRE GUILLORY born Dec 16, 1712 at Dauphin Island, Mobile, AL died March 28, 1786 at the age of 74 in Grand Prairie, St.Landry Parish, LA.
His bride, Marie Jeanne LACASSE, daughter of Jean LACASSE and Marie Ann FOURCHE, had been born in Mobile on March 20, 1726, and baptized that same day.

In 1737, at the age of 11, Marie Jeanne LaCasse had married Joseph STAMAYER /Estamier dit Chateauneuf, a soldier in Lesuer's company; but was soon widowed.

Marie Jeanne LaCasse was not yet fourteen years old at the time of her second marriage to Joseph Gregoire Guillory.
Marie Jeanne Guillory died at the age of 38, on April 27, 1764 at Mobile, AL, after giving Joseph Gregoire eight children.

By the time of her death in April, 1764, she produced at least eight children, only one of these pre-deceasing their mother (Marie-Louise, b. June 1748, d. May 1749.) Her parents were living at Fish Island [south of St. Augustine, FL] at that time.) These records are from the Mobile, Alabama, Church Archives.

JOSEPH GREGOIRE GUILLORY and MARIE JEANNE LACASSE had eight children:

I) MARIE JEANNE GUILLORY born Sept 24, 1740 in Mobile, AL, christened Sept 29, 1749 at Notre Dame Catholic Church, Mobile, AL, died unkn
Married 1st JEAN CLAUDE DUPONT born Feb 9, 1723 Pascagoula, West Florida, French Territory, died ca 1782
Married Feb or April 14, 1760
Had four children:

II) PIERRE/PEDRO GREGOIRE GUILLORY born May 30, 1742 in French Mobile, Fort Toulouse des Alibamons, AL, christened at Notre Dame Catholic Church, Mobile, AL; died April 20, 1803 in Grand Prairie, Opelousas, LA., buried April 21, 1803 in Opelousas (Grand Prairie), St. Landry Parish, LA. Pierre Gregoire Guillory was a ship’s pilot.
Married 1st MARIE ANNE LEFLEAU/LAFLEUR, daughter of JEAN LEFLEAU/LAFLEUR and MARIE GIRARD, born Dec 28, 1753 St. Emanuel Street, Mobile, AL; christened at Notre Dame Catholic Church, Mobile, AL; died ca 1782, buried at Campo Santo Cemetery, Mobile, AL.
Had one child:

PIERRE GREGOIRE GUILLORY married 2nd MARIE JEANNE JOSEPHE PHILIPE FONTENOT, daughter of PHILIPPE “ST PHILIPPE” LAROSE FONTENOT/FONTENEAU and MARIE-NICOLE JEANNE BRIGNAC, born Dec 9, 1759 in Fort Toulouse des Alibamons, Mobile, AL, died ca April 29, 1843 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA
Married July 2, 1782
Had at least three children

III) JEAN BAPTISTE GUILLORY I born ca July 1, 1746 Dauphin Island, Mobile, AL; christened at Notre Dame Catholic Church, Mobile, AL. Died ca Nov 16, 1813.
Married MARGUERITE HAYES, daughter of NICOLAS HAYES (OR HIERS OR HAYER) and MARGUERITE FOLSE/FOLTZ, born Feb 6, 1756 in Alsace, France, died June 16, 1821 in Avoyelles Parish, LA. Married at Opelousas, St Landry Parish. Nicolas Hayes and Marguerite Folse were both natives of Europe. Marguerite Folse was the daughter of Joannes Jacobum Folse/Foltz (born ca 1697 in Ramstein, Bavaria, Germany and baptized on Jan 27, 1697 in Ramstein, Bavaria, Germany. He died on June 10, 1746 at Edgard, St. John Baptist Parish, LA,, and was buried on June 11, 1746 in Edgard, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA) and Catherine Benick (born date unkn in Buchen, Baden, Germany, died Dec 17, 1748, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA.) It was Jean Baptiste Guillory who moved the family to what later became Avoyelles Parish.
JEAN BAPTISTE GUILLORY and MARGUERITE HAYES had ten children:

IV) MARIE LOUISE GUILLORY born May 6, 1748 in Mobile, AL, died
May 2, 1749 at Fish River, Mobile, AL
Speaking of his daughter’s death, Joseph Gregoire said, The child died in my absence, he said, Only my wife and an old man named Dauphin (probably a slave) was there. They had to bury her because they could not carry her body to the fort.

V) FRANCOIS GUILLORY born 1749, died before 1782 in Mobile, AL
Married JEAN BAPTISTE BAHAM, born 1746 died before 1812 in
Madisonville, LA
Married before 1765, possibly in Mobile, AL

VI) CLAUDE ELIE GUILLORY born July 5, 1750 Dauphin Island, AL, christened at Notre Dame Catholic Church, Mobile, AL; died Nov, 1785
Married MARIE JEANNE BRIGNAC, daughter of MATTHIEU JACQUES “JOLI” BRIGNAC and MARIE THERESE DENISE (SYLVESTRE) BRIGNAC, born
1770 in Fort Toulouse, AL, died unkn
Married about 1785 at Mobile, AL
Had at least one child.

VII) JOSEPH II PIERRE GREGOIRE GUILLORY II born Nov 5, 1752 in French Mobile, Fort Toulouse, AL, died March 14, 1813 in Grand Prairie, St. Landry Parish, LA.
JOSEPH II PIERRE GREGOIRE GUILLORY II married 1st MARIE CLAIRE (CLARA) DIT BELLEVUE FONTENOT (also known as CLAIRE BELAIRE FONTENOT), born about 1760 in French Mobile, Fort Toulouse, AL, died March 2, 1804. Marie Claire Fontenot was the daughter of JOSEPH BELLAIRE FONTENOT and MARIE JEANNE (BRIGNAC) FONTENOT, in 1777 at Opelousas.
Married ca 1777/1781 in either Opelousas, LA or Mobile, AL.
JOSEPH II PIERRE GREGOIRE GUILLORY and MARIE CLAIRE (CLARA) FONTENOT had thirteen children.

VIII)   JEAN LOUIS “LOUIS” (PERE) GUILLORY I born Dec 22, 1754 in French Mobile, Fort Toulouse, AL, died April 20, 1813 or Jan 15, 1824 in St. Landry Parish, LA.

Married MARIE JEANNE FONTENOT, daughter of JOSEPH BELLAIRE FONTENOT/FONTENEAU and MARIE-JOSEPHE JEANNE BRIGNAC, born
June 6, 1762 in French Mobile, AL, died before Nov 13, 1843 in Opelousas, St
Landry Parish, LA
Married on March 5/6, 1776 or July 12, 1781 at Notre Dame Cathedral, Mobile, AL
JEAN LOUIS GUILLORY SR and MARIE JEANNE FONTENOT had twenty-one children

Joseph moved his family, including slaves, to Opelousas, Louisiana after Jeanne's death.
He had recently received a land grant of some 640 acres there. Before the move, Joseph was having an affair with his slave, Marguerite; she was pregnant during the move to Louisiana. In the ensuing years, Marguerite gave Joseph Gregoire three additional children. Around 1770, Joseph began proceedings to free Marguerite and her children - yet paperwork that was drawn up turned out not to be legally binding. A legal case ensued where Marguerite fought to free herself, and then her four children, from slavery from Joseph Gregoire's legitimate children. This was known as "The Margarita Case".

GUILLORY FAMILY: THE MARGARITA CASE:
“It is not known if Marguerite gave birth to the child she was carrying before arriving at Opelousas Post. It is now assumed, however, that the child Marguerite was carrying was "Catherine" (called Catiche), born c1764, fathered by Joseph Gregoire Guillory.
After the move to Opelousas Post, Marguerite produced three additional children fathered by Joseph Gregoire: Jean Baptiste (c1766), Joseph (c1769), Marie (c1770). (The fact that Joseph Gregoire Guillory was the father of Marguerite's children was never disputed.) After the birth of Marie in 1770, Joseph Gregoire Guillory went thru the motions of freeing his Negro mistress and their children. At the same time, he convinced his legitimate children (who owned an undivided half interest in the slaves) that he was capable of paying them their portion of their deceased mother's estate without having to sell the slaves or divide them between the heirs.
Joseph Gregoire Guillory then had a local schoolmaster draw up the emancipation paper. However, unbeknownst to Marguerite, the document was technically invalid because the schoolmaster was not qualified to officiate at the manumission. Whether Joseph Gregoire was aware of this fact is unclear. However, as stated by Winston Deville in the article entitled "The Margarita Case: Historical Perspectives on a Controversial Case in 18th Century Louisiana" (Louisiana Bar Journal, Volume 31, Number 2):
The case was not fully settled until 1783; Marguerite and her children had won their freedom.”
Refer to the following site for more information about the Margarita Case:
http://louisianalineage.com/margarita.htm

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