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The Baleine Brides were a group of 88 French women that were sent to French Louisiana (la Louisiane), arriving 8 Jan 1721 in Biloxi, the then capital of la Louisiane. These women purportedly volunteered to travel to la Louisiane to marry eligible bachelors who were settling the colony. They arrived on the French cargo ship Baleine , which is how they got their nickname. These women came from Ma...
Introduction= A Casket (Casquette) Girl , also widely known as a cassette girl "filles à la cassette" refers to the women brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry. The name derives from the small chests, known as cassettes, in which they carried their clothes. They were conspicuous by reason of their virtue. Normally women were supplied to the colonists by raking the str...
Refugees from the Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) that immigrated into New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and elsewhere from 1791 to 1810.Resources* Settlers of St. Domingue, 1750-1800 * Surnames of Some Saint-Domingue Refugee Families * The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792–1809 * From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences * The 1809 Immigration of Saint-Domi...
Settlers of Mississippi from 1699 to 1817
Spanish Texas or La Provincia de Tejas (1513-1821) =This is a top-level project and no personal profiles should be placed here (with very few exceptions such as explorers). "Sub-projects" are in the process of creation and will include the following:1. Spanish Texas Missions2. Spanish Texas Presidios3. Spanish Texas Settlements and Settlers* La Villa de San Antonio de Bexar* La Bahia*Nacogdoche...
Creole herein refers to people of French or Spanish descent born in the New World colonies, particularly in the Caribbean and French and Spanish Louisiana and West Florida, including those of European and mixed ancestry. Profiles are the immigrant ancestors of these families which primarily resided in New Orleans and surrounding areas (1st and 2nd generations). One goal is to develop standardiz...
Allibamonts (or Alibamons), as they were called by their fellow colonists, came to Louisiana from present-day Alabama at the end of the French period. Most had served as French soldiers at either Mobile or along the Alabama River when France controlled the region. At the end of the Seven Years' War, the Treaty of Paris of February 1763 awarded all of French Louisiana east of the Île of Orleans ...