The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

La Plante · ◉ direct ancestor

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♂Jean Baptiste La Plante

Dates not yet known.

Jean Baptiste La Plante (fl. 1794–1811) was a settler of Vincennes, in the Indiana TerritoryW, where his younger children were born and where two of his sons married two sisters of one family. He was the fourth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Julia Adele Laplante (1811–1861).

Origins and marriage

His parents are not known. No record naming them has been found in the indexes of the French Catholic registers of Québec and Detroit up to 1831, or in those of Vincennes. A published genealogy of the Detroit River families calls him John Baptist Prisque Laplante and says he was born at “Isle Perault”, that is Île Perrot, near Montreal; no baptism has been found to confirm it.

The same genealogy records his marriage on 9 December 1794 at St. Antoine, the parish of the French settlement on the River Raisin, south of Detroit, to Mary Dorcus O’Connell/Colne(y), whom it calls “Mary Corollay”, born in the United States. It lists three children born there: Elisabeth in June 1795, Marie in February 1798 and Jean Baptiste in March 1800. An older family record had placed the marriage at Detroit before 1798, without a source. The St. Antoine register itself, which might name his parents, has not been found online.

Vincennes

By 1805 the family was at Vincennes, on the Wabash. Indexes of the parish records of St. Francis XavierW give the births there of Joseph Narcissus in August 1805, Hyacinthe in March 1808 and Julia Adele on 15 May 1811, each naming Jean Baptiste Laplante and Marie Colne as the parents. The same parish’s marriage indexes name the couple again as the parents of Julia Adele, who married Augustin Tougas Lovellette in January 1830, and of Hyacinthe and Joseph Narcissus, who married Marieanne and Marellite Compagnotte, daughters of Pierre Compagnotte and Marguerite Gamelin, in June 1830 and February 1837. No record of the couple’s own marriage survives in the Vincennes registers, whose surviving marriage book begins only in 1818.

The date and place of his death have not been found. A biography of Julia Adele written by her granddaughter says that her father died when she was very young, and that her brothers “were very devoted and gave her every advantage that was theirs to give”. An older family record gives his death as about 1812 at Vincennes, without a source.

Notes

Family trees long gave him the birth (29 September 1756 at Saint-Laurent, near Montreal) and the death (1847) of another man, Jean Baptiste Laplante dit Champagne, who married Archange Vallière at Sainte-Rose, Île Jésus, in 1782. The Sainte-Rose registers show that man present at his daughter Marie Pélagie’s baptism there in May 1791 and consenting to the same daughter’s marriage there about January 1810, sixteen months before Julia Adele was born at Vincennes to a different mother. The two men are not the same.

A Jean Baptiste Laplante whose wife was named Apoline had a son Pierre baptized at Detroit on 25 May 1791; the Detroit River genealogy treats that couple as a separate family. A Pierre Laplante who married Elizabeth Gamelin at Vincennes in January 1820 is indexed as a son of Baptist and Marie, with the mother’s surname read “Carnson”; whether he was another of this couple’s children has not been settled.

Family time line

◉ Jean Baptiste La Plante ▦
◉ Mary Dorcus O'Connell/Colne(y) 1773–
Married 9 Dec 1794, St. Antoine, River Raisin, Northwest Territory, St. Antoine, River Raisin
○ Elisabeth Laplante 1795–
○ Marie Laplante 1798–
○ Jean Baptiste Laplante 1800–
○ Joseph Narcissus Laplante 1805–
○ Hyacinthe Laplante 1808–bef 1890
◉ Julia Adele Laplante 1811–1861

Recorded events

No dated events are recorded yet.

Sources

  • Indiana, U.S., Select Births and Christenings, 1773-1933 — about this person
  • Indiana, U.S., Select Marriages Index, 1748-1993 — about this person
  • Denissen, Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region (revision), p. 688 — John Baptist Prisque Laplante × Mary Corollay, St. Antoine, River Raisin 1794 — Marriage (Mary Dorcus O'Connell/Colne(y))

Line of descent

Descendants

  1. Elisabeth Laplante 1795–
  2. Marie Laplante 1798–
  3. Jean Baptiste Laplante 1800–
  4. Joseph Narcissus Laplante 1805–
    1. Mary Laplante 1840–1904
    2. Edward Laplante 1842–1858
    3. Julia Laplante 1846–
    4. Elizabeth Companionette Laplante 1846–1922
      1. Hugh Hyacenth Joice 1868–1919
        1. Alzire Joice 1889–1889 ✧
        2. Mary Eulalie Joice 1890–1965
        3. Cyrill Paul Joice 1892–1983 ⚭
        4. Leon Joseph Joice 1893–1917
        5. Alphonse Hugh Joice 1896–1983 ⚭
        6. Henry Anthony Joice 1898–1992
        7. Louis Alowishis Joice 1902–1952
        8. Edmond Francis Joice 1904–1995
        9. Mabel Elizabeth Joice 1907–2009
        10. Arnold Bernard Joice 1914–2007
      2. Grant Joice 1869–
      3. George O. Joice 1870–1914
      4. Washington Joice 1872–
      5. Joseph Jacob Joice 1872–1950
      6. Henry Winefred Joice 1874–1943
        1. Alma M Joice 1902–1993
        2. Veronica Joice 1904–1991
        3. Camilla K Joice 1916–2006
        4. Kenneth Henry Joice 1921–1987
      7. Anna M Joice 1876–1946
      8. Alphonse Hugh Joice 1877–1964
      9. Oster Maurice Joice 1879–1961
      10. August Clarence Joice 1881–1961
        1. Carl Joice 1911–
        2. Robert Joice 1915–1993
      11. Melvina Joice 1883–1965
        1. Dorothy Mae Loudermilk 1908–
        2. Carl Thomas Loudermilk 1910–1954
        3. Walter Fredrick Loudermilk 1911–1979
        4. Anna Louise Loudermilk 1915–1999
        5. James W Loudermilk 1918–1996
        6. Mildred Marie Loudermilk 1919–2002
        7. Mary Lou Loudermilk 1924–2015
        8. William Charles Loudermilk 1926–1992
      12. Jennette Joice 1885–1945
        1. Clerence S Arnold 1911–
        2. Joseph R Arnold 1913–
        3. children who may still be living
      13. Louis Joice 1887–1914
      14. Leo Oliver Joice 1889–1958
    5. Henry Laplante 1849–
    6. Warren Laplante 1850–
    7. Caroline Marie Laplante 1856–
    8. Jean Baptist Laplante 1858–
  5. Hyacinthe Laplante 1808–bef 1890
  6. Julia Adele Laplante 1811–1861
    1. Eleanor Tougas Lovellette 1830–1898
      1. Beauchamp Augustus Harvey 1850–1927
      2. Mary Alice Harvey 1854–1941
        1. Clarence F. Stein 1875–1953
        2. Claude Harvey Stein 1880–1953
        3. Roy Harold Stein 1884–1904
        4. Mabel Alice Stein 1888–1972
      3. Julia Esther Harvey 1857–1951
        1. Mabel Wilkinson 1875–1954
        2. Robert Clyde Wilkinson 1878–1951
        3. James Harvey Wilkinson 1882–1924
        4. Ross Wilkinson ✧
      4. James William Harvey 1859–abt 1920
        1. Esther Ross Harvey 1910–2006
      5. Ella May Harvey 1862–1939
        1. Robert White 1892–1956
        2. Beauchamp Augustus White 1894–1948
        3. Joseph White 1898–1982
      6. Laura Eva Harvey 1869–1951
      7. Orian Ross Harvey 1870–1908 ☘
        1. James Orian Harvey 1895–1988 ⚔
        2. Morris Beauchamp Harvey 1896–1993 ⚔☘⚭
        3. Anne Eleanore Harvey 1898–
    2. John Tougas Lavanlette 1833–1902
      1. Stephen A. Lavanlette 1860–
      2. Hyacinth Lavanlette 1863–
      3. Julia Lavanlette 1865–
      4. Maude Lavanlette 1867–
      5. Harrison Lavanlette 1869–1950
        1. Maude Iris Lovellette 1905–1995
        2. John Tougaw Lovellette 1914–2003
        3. Champ Tougaw Lovellette 1916–1977
      6. Augustus Lavanlette 1873–
      7. Harvey Lavanlette 1879–1881 ✧
    3. William Lovellette 1835–1877
      1. Estella Lavanlette abt 1864–1894
        1. Ora Edna Lankford 1887–1925
        2. Blanche Elizabeth Lankford 1889–1958
        3. Elwood F Lankford 1891–1975
        4. Elbert L. Lankford 1891–
        5. Hattie V Lankford 1894–1984 ⚭
      2. Edward Lavanlette
      3. Hattie Lavanlette
    4. Mary Jane Lovellette abt 1836–1903
      1. William Legier
      2. Edwin Legier
      3. George Legier
      4. Charles Legier
      5. Joseph Legier
      6. Elinor Legier
      7. Lelia Legier
      8. Clarence Legier
    5. Augustus Lovellette abt 1838–1887
      1. Augusta Izora Lovelette 1864–1937
        1. Marion Agnes Douglas 1888–1976
        2. John Augustus Douglas 1891–1967
        3. Oliver Pierre Douglas 1893–1949
      2. William Augustus Lovellette 1876–1923
        1. Willa C Lovellette 1904–1904 ✧
        2. Howard William Lovellette 1906–1966
        3. Pearl A Lovellette 1908–1990 ⚭
        4. Emeline Izora Lovellette 1913–1963
        5. Martha L Lovellette 1916–2009
      3. Marian Agnes Lovelette
    6. Hyacinth Lovellette 1841–bef 1860
    7. Harriet Lovellette 1844–
    8. Julia Adelia Lovellette 1846–1908
      1. John T. Legier 1867–1938
        1. Paul Manley Legier 1892–1964
        2. Mary Pauline Legier 1895–1975
        3. John Alfred Legier 1904–1971
      2. Laura Legier
      3. Fred Legier
      4. Naomi Blanche Legier
      5. Angeline Legier
    9. Mildred Lovellette 1848–1849 ✧
    10. Angeline Lovellette 1850–1933