♂Nemorin Braud

Nemorin Braud (c. 1824 – 1 December 1856) was a resident of Iberville and later Ascension Parish, Louisiana. He was the husband of Pamelia Hebert, a niece of Marie Cidalise Lambremont (born 1799), the great-great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014).

His given name is a rare one: Némorin is the hero of Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s pastoral romance Estelle et Némorin (1788), a popular book in its day. No record says why his parents chose it.

Marriage and family

Nemorin was the son of Simon Onesime Braud, already deceased by 1847, and a woman recorded only as Cleonise, her surname not given. He married Pamelia Hebert on 8 February 1847 at St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Iberville Parish; she was the daughter of Auguste Hebert and Marie Mathilde Lambremont, both likewise noted as deceased in the marriage record. By 1849 the couple had moved downriver to Ascension Parish and settled near Donaldsonville, where the parish register recorded most of their children’s baptisms and burials. They had six children born between 1847 and 1854, two of whom, Neree and Austin, died young; Austin lived only six days.

Notes

A third burial, of a three-year-old called “Naissy” and attributed to Nemorin Braud, on 10 September 1852, matches none of the couple’s baptized children and has not been placed; it may record a child missing from the surviving baptismal registers, or a misrecorded age for their son Paul, who would then have been about two and a half. Nemorin Braud died at Donaldsonville on 1 December 1856, age 32, and was buried there.