Caribbean Tale

[Gooding]

Thanks to Psychonaut for inspiring me to share part of my family history here
Around 1740,an ancestor of mine, Francois Pecot, was born in the town of Les Touches, in the area of Nantes, France.This family was apparently of noble stock, as Francois owned a sugarcane plantation in the colony of St.Domingue.Francois had taken up residence in Mirebalais, on St.Domingue, when he met his future wife, an Acadian from Port Royal named Rosalie Prejean.Around 1762, they married.When the slaves revolted around 1795, Francois and his oldest son, Luc, were beheaded in the melee.Rosalie and their children fled to Jamaica and later to Charenton, Louisiana.I am descended from one of their sons, Charles Jean Ermine Pecot and one of their daughters, Marie Rose Angelique Desiree Pecot.Many South Louisiana families are endogamous (over several generations) and my great-great grandparents were related in various degrees.Yet, they also had a limited diversity in being mutually descended from German and German-Swiss families from the Cote des Allemands,as well as from the Creole/Cajuns.Thank the gods for a distant cousin from LA who was willing to investigate and put the info online.

[Psychonaut]

Thanks to Psychonaut for inspiring me to share part of my family history here
Around 1740,an ancestor of mine, Francois Pecot, was born in the town of Les Touches, in the area of Nantes, France.This family was apparently of noble stock, as Francois owned a sugarcane plantation in the colony of St.Domingue.Francois had taken up residence in Mirebalais, on St.Domingue, when he met his future wife, an Acadian from Port Royal named Rosalie Prejean.Around 1762, they married.When the slaves revolted around 1795, Francois and his oldest son, Luc, were beheaded in the melee.Rosalie and their children fled to Jamaica and later to Charenton, Louisiana.I am descended from one of their sons, Charles Jean Ermine Pecot and one of their daughters, Marie Rose Angelique Desiree Pecot.Many South Louisiana families are endogamous (over several generations) and my great-great grandparents were related in various degrees.Yet, they also had a limited diversity in being mutually descended from German and German-Swiss families from the Cote des Allemands,as well as from the Creole/Cajuns.Thank the gods for a distant cousin from LA who was willing to investigate and put the info online.

I'll bet money we're related. Here's my Prejean lineage:

Helene Prejean (1776 -1823) + Agricole Hebert (1776 + 1833)
Armand Prejean (1726 - 1787) + Marie Terriot (1736 - 1796)
Joseph Prejean (1696 - 1755) + Marie Louise Comeau (1703 - 1745)
Jean Prejean (1651 - 1733) + Andree Savoie (1667 - 1733)

[Gooding]

This is what I've got: Rosalie Prejean(1741-1813)+Francois Pecot(1740-1795)
Charles Prejean(1706-?)+Marguerite Simon(1709-?)
Jean Prejean(1651-?)+Andree Savoie(1667-?)
I'm also descended from Jeanne Savoie(1658-1735)+Etienne Pellerin(1646-1722)=Bernard Pellerin(1691-?)+Marie Gaudet(1688-?)
Gregoire Pellerin(1724-1776)+Cecile Prejean(1731-1808)
Emelie Pellerin(1766-1826)+Laurent Sigur(?-1836)
Marie Claire Sigur(1792-1875)+Charles Jean Ermine Pecot(1782-1844)
Pierre Alfred Pecot(1818-1884)+Helene Livie Perret(1828-1900)
Alexandre Theodore Pecot(1851-1942)+Amelie Armelin(1853-1942)
Marie Elodie Pecot(1887-1967)+James Cornett(1879-1976)
Phyllis Cornett(1913-1996)+Newton Boyd McDonald(1912-1977)
Carol Ann McDonald(1945-)+Robert Gooding(1944)
This line of descent goes right to my mother marrying my father.Do any of the above names in the Pecot line sound familiar to you?The Bossiers,D'Arensbourgs and Romes are also ancestors of mine.Marie Madelaine Manon Rome was the daughter of Johannes Rommel of Kirchardt,Baden, and Karl Friedrich von Arensberg was a Pomeranian who helped to found the German Coast.

[Gooding]

It does give me a chuckle, you know.Growing up, Granny swore her mother was French through and through.My aunt lives in Mississippi, and later on she suggested that we had French Cajun or French Creole heritage.It took ten years after my grandmother passed for us to hear from a distant cousin Alec, who did extensive research and later set it up on the net.And good lord, was my grandmother Catholic!Listening to her talk about the Pecots, evidently they were tres Opus Dei!She was a wonderful lady and I know she's enjoying her afterlife.I'll treasure my memories of her forever.

[Psychonaut]

One question: Do you know where in Brittany Jean Prejean came from??

Unfortunately, no. I think the only reason we even know where he was from is because of the "dit Breton" suffix attached on his transit records into Acadia.

[Gooding]

Well, we do have that much..