♀Magdelaine Cable

Magdelaine Cable (living in 1756) was a settler of French Louisiana, the wife of Pierre Olivo, whose family lived at the Arkansas Post^W before settling at Pointe Coupée, where she appears in the registers as the wife of three men in turn.

The Olivo family

The earliest trace of the family is her daughter Catherine, who was described at her marriages at Pointe Coupée in 1744, 1747 and 1761 as a native of Arkansas, and in 1747 as of the diocese of Quebec; Pierre Olivo and Magdelaine Cable were therefore at the Arkansas Post when she was born. A son, André, was described at his marriage in 1764 as a native of des Allemands, on the German Coast^W above New Orleans. By 1739 the family was at Pointe Coupée, where a son Pierre was born on 11 June 1739, a daughter Marie Françoise on 8 August 1741, and another son named Pierre was baptized on 2 February 1743. The registers name at least seven children of the couple, among them George, who married in 1755, and Marie Anne, who married Guillaume Guerin in 1758.

When Catherine married Pierre Joly on 9 January 1744, her mother, entered as Marie Cable, was the first witness named.

Later marriages

The registers do not record Pierre Olivo’s death; his sons’ marriages in 1764 both call him deceased. A woman of the same name next appears as the wife of Jacques Cure, a native of Mardié in the diocese of Orléans: their daughter Marie Françoise was baptized on 27 November 1745 and buried on 12 November 1747, aged two. That this is the same woman is shown by the family ties: Jacques Cure stood godfather to Catherine’s son in February 1746 and witnessed Catherine’s second marriage in January 1747.

By 1753 Magdelaine Cable was the wife of Pierre Ducote, and their son Pierre was born on 4 September 1753. In June 1756 “Pierre Ducote and his wife, Magdelaine Cable” stood as godparents to her grandson George, the son of George Olivo. A daughter, Marie Magdeleine Ducote, married Joseph Carmouche of New Orleans on 21 August 1764. Pierre Ducote was a witness at five Olivo weddings, of four of the children, between 1744 and 1764. The registers record enslaved people belonging to Pierre Ducote, baptized and buried at Pointe Coupée from 1757 to 1769.

Notes

No record of her death or burial has been found. In November 1766 a Marie Madeleine Cable, described as the wife of Pourcieux, stood godmother to Rosalie, the daughter of her son André; the registers read so far do not show whether this was a fourth marriage or a slip in the entry. The 1750 baptism of a Marie Magdeleine Ducote gives her mother’s name as Marie Magdeleine Gavel, and the abstract does not say whether she is the daughter who married in 1764.

Origins

No record of her parents has been found, nor of her birth or of her marriage to Pierre Olivo. The published abstract of the Pointe Coupée registers gives no birthplace for her; its volumes carry no statement of her origin. The registers write her name as Marie Cable, Marie Magdeleine Cable, Magdelaine Cable and Magdelene Cable.