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The Laborde Family
From Tartas, Landes, France
To Pointe Coupee and Avoyelles Parishes
Complete Documentation and Actual Dates
can be obtained when the Edna Rabalais
Papers are completed.
Our story, as we know it thus far, began
with the merging of two politically
active families in Tartas, Landes,
France at the beginning of the 18th
Century. The second generation followed
in the footsteps of the first, but the
third generation entered the professions
of medicine and law, and went about the
business of building families of their own.
All of the earliest Laborde family for
whom we have documentation remained in
the Tartas, Landes, France, area except
Pierre, who came to Louisiana and began
our Laborde family of Pointe Coupee and
Avoyelles Parishes.
Jean Laborde I was born in 1683 in
Tartas, Landes, France. He married
Marie Fossats about 1705. He was the
Bourgeois and Treasurer of the Revenues
of the City of Tartas, an office for
which we now use the term Mayor. Jean
Laborde I died in 1753 and was buried
at the Church of St. Martin. Marie
Fosatts died in 1732 and is buried at
the same church. The Church of St.
Martin was replaced by the Church of
St. Jacques in 1857.
Jean Laborde I and Marie Fosatts
had four children:
i. Jean Laborde II
from whom we are all descended
ii. Marguerite Clarisse Laborde became
a nun of the Sister de L’Assumption Order
iii. Marie Laborde married Jean Druer
iv. Pierre Laborde
Note: Fossato is a town in Italy. Fossato
is a river in Italy. However, I have
searched diligently and have not found any
family with the name Fossato, in either
France or in Italy. However, there was then
– and is still today – the Fossats family
in Tartas, Landes, France. We were (nicely)
“corrected” by a wonderful genealogist in
the Tartas area whose family has been in
the area with Labordes for many generations.
Jean Laborde II was born about 1710.
He married Catherine Lamue in 1736/37
in the small village of Lesgor, just
outside of Tartas. Don’t let the double
dates throw you. You will find double
dates for all members of our family
during the 1730s and 40s. This is due
to the change from the Julien Calendar
to the Gregorian Calendar. Catherine was
born about 1714 to Pierre Lamue (copied
incorrectly as Larrue in transcriptions
of records found in Tartas) and Marie
Dupoy. These were all politically active
families. Catherine’s father was, at
one time, also the Mayor of Tartas.
Jean Laborde II was the Royal Procureur
(prosecutor) and Notary of the
Senechal and ultimately followed in his
father’s footsteps as Bourgeois and
Treasurer of the Revenues of the City
of Tartas. Jean Laborde II died about
1769 in Tartas.
Jean Laborde II and Catherine Lamue
had six children:
i. Marie Laborde was born 11 June
1738. Her godparents were her
grandfather, Jean Laborde I and
her grandmother, Marie Dupoy Lamue.
ii. Guillaume Laborde was born 5 March
1740. His godparents were his
uncle, Guillaume Lamue, and his aunt,
Marie Laborde. He was a Barrister.
iii. Marguerite Laborde was born 1 January
1742 and her godmother was her
aunt, Marguerite Lamue de Tapiau.
iv. Francois Laborde was born 11 Feb 1743.
v. Germain Laborde was born 8 January,
1745. Germain Fossats was his godfather.
vi. Pierre Laborde, from whom we are all
descended, was born on 5 April 1746
and died before 20 April 1825 in
Avoyelles Parish. He was a surgeon.
Pierre Laborde was born 4 April 1746
in Tartas, France. He came to Louisiana
as the Master Navel Surgeon at Pointe
Coupee Post. He married Modeste LaCour,
the daughter of Simon LaCour and
Marguerite Leonard dit Frederic (a story
in and of herself). The LaCour and DuClos
ancestry of Modeste is coming soon.
When Pierre Laborde and Modeste LaCour
married, 30 September, 1783, he was 37
years old and she was only 15. Pierre
served as Coroner for the area and was
involved in farming and raising cattle.
His farming and cattle raising efforts
are understandable, since his father-in
-law was the owner of a very large
plantation. Court records support that
Pierre Laborde was a man with a violent
temper. He died in Avoyelles Parish
before 20 April 1825 and Modeste died
in Avoyelles Parish between March and
July 1808, following the birth of her
twelfth child.
Pierre Laborde and Modeste LaCour
had twelve children:
i. Henriette Laborde b. unknown,
d. 18 Jul 1851
ii. Elise Laborde b. 11, Nov 1785
iii. Pierre Laborde II
b. 25 Mar 1787 Opelousas Post
d. Before 1860
iv. Madeleine Laborde b. 15 Jan 1789
Avoyelles Parish
v. Claire Laborde b. 3 Oct 1790
Avoyelles Parish
vi. Valerien Laborde b. 5 Apr 1794
Avoyelles Parish
vii. Antoine Laborde b. 7 Jan 1796
Avoyelles Parish
viii. John Baptiste Laborde b. 3 Jan 1798
Avoyelles Parish
ix. Zelina Laborde b. 19 Jan 1800
x. Selonie Laborde b. Oct. 1802
xi. Zenon Laborde b. Abt. 1805
Avoyelles Parish
xii. Valery Laborde b. Mar 1808
I will leave it to the coming Laborde
projects to bring us forward from here.
My own descendency is twice from
Pierre Laborde II.
We have copies of the original Laborde
documents, but not only were they taken
with that HUGE camera that took the
Tartas pictures - but they are all in,
of course, French - AND came in BATCHES!
This is going to take some time, but two
of us are working on it as much as our
levels of frustration will allow.
I will add to this page as we get the
information in order.
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