♂François Paris

François Paris was the father of François Eloy, a native of Versailles who married at New Orleans in 1730 and later settled in the Illinois Country^W. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son François Eloy (died before 4 January 1742). He is known only from his son’s marriage to Marie Barbe Colin in the parish church of St. Louis at New Orleans on 30 October 1730, where the groom is entered as the son of François and of a mother whose name is not given.

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His surname

The marriage entry, as printed in Earl C. Woods and Charles E. Nolan’s Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, files the groom under the surname Paris, as “Francois Eloy, surnamed ST. FRANCOIS”, “native of Versailles”; the bride’s entry calls him “Francois Eloy PARIS, surnamed ST. FRANCOIS”. The father’s surname is therefore taken to be Paris, with Eloy as the son’s second given name, the name the son’s daughters later carried as their surname. The notarial acts of the Illinois Country call the son François Eloy dit St. François and never Paris.

What is not known

The entry calls the son a native of Versailles but says nothing of where the father lived. No record gives François Paris’s wife, his trade, or the dates and places of his birth and death.