Barbara’s family
Jean Baptiste Baudreau
14 SEP 1736 – 1803 · 5th great-grandfatherJean Baptiste Baudreau, also identified in the supplied notes as Jean Baptiste Baudrau III, was born 14 September 1736 in the West Pascagoula area and died in 1803. He was the son of Jean Baudreau (II) and Catherine Chenet, also called Vinconneau. He is Barbara’s fifth great-grandfather through his daughter Marie Angelique Baudreau.
His parents’ marriage record, dated 1 March 1734 at Pascagoula, identifies his father as Jean Baptiste Baudrau, a Creole of Dauphin Island and son of Jean Baptiste Baudrau dit Graveline and Suzanne. It identifies his mother as Marie Catherine Vinconnau of La Rochelle, daughter of the late Louis Vinconnau and Catherine Doussin. The marriage took place at the Pascagoula home of Joseph Simon dit la Pointe.
Jean Baptiste died in 1803. The supplied notes identify Genevieve Baudrau as his daughter. Genevieve married Charles Leblanc in 1783, and their son Joseph, born in 1788, was later known as St. Cyr Seymour. Family and local-history notes connect subsequent Seymour descendants with the north shore of Graveline Lake and later settlements at Biloxi Latimer, Fort Bayou, Ocean Springs, and North Biloxi.
Jean Baptiste Baudreau is in Barbara’s family branch. The supplied relationship path runs through his daughter Marie Angelique Baudreau, then Emanuel I Bang, Emmanuel Bang, Matilda Bang, Ruby Armena Maples, and Doris Helen Sherrell.
Historical context
The baptism was recorded during the colonial period, when the pastor of Fort Conde of Mobile also served Pascagoula and dependent communities. The family records use French colonial naming forms, including Baudreau or Baudrau and the dit name Graveline. Later local-history notes describe Seymour descendants near Graveline Lake as subsistence farmers and stockmen.
Sources & research
MBI, Act 46, p. 19. Baptismal entry for Jean Baptiste Baudreau, born 14 September 1736; ceremonies supplied 3 November 1736.
MAA, BB1, p. 102. Marriage record of Jean Baptiste Baudrau and Marie Catherine Vinconnau, 1 March 1734.
Lepre, 1995, pp. 54–61.
The Ocean Springs Record, 15 January 1998.
Love’s Legacy, p. 29.
Family notes, No. 358.
Graveline Society Publication of 2004, article “New Discovery,” by Eloise Genest.
Census Tables 1699–1732.
Family notes, No. 350.