♂Pierre Lambremont

Pierre Lambremont was the father of Michel Lambremont of St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, and is known from the St. Gabriel parish register, where he and his wife Francoise Eloi are named as grandparents in fourteen baptisms between 1796 and 1812. He was the fourth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Michel Lambremont (about 1767–1829). In 1769 his wife asked the Superior Council at New Orleans to let her renounce their community of property, saying she was “tired of his dissipation and bad conduct”; the suit is known from the historian Thomas N. Ingersoll’s note on the court record.

In December 1764 Pierre Lambremont and Francoise Eloi married at Fort de Chartres in the Illinois Country^W, in the parish of Ste. Anne. The bride was the widow of Jacques Hennet, and two banns were dispensed for their departure.

At New Orleans

A Pierre Lambremont was a witness for the bride at the New Orleans marriage contract of Henry Roche dit Bellair and Catherine Laurandine, made on 25 February 1756.

On 10 February 1769 Marie-Françoise Eloy brought a suit against Pierre Lambremont before the Superior Council of Louisiana, asking to renounce the community, that is, the property held jointly by husband and wife, so that her own property would be shielded from his debts and she could protect her children. Thomas N. Ingersoll, in Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans (1999), gives the reason in the words “tired of his dissipation and bad conduct”. The account rests on Ingersoll’s note to the court record.

Notes

The register does not settle where the couple came from. The baptism of Michel’s son Pedro in 1796 calls them “of New Orleans”, and that of his daughter Maria in 1798 “of Acadia”. Jean Baptiste is himself called “of New Orleans” in a daughter’s baptism of 1800, and his own marriage entry, of 20 January 1795, gives his parents as “Paul & Maria Ylua, of New Orleans”; the records do not explain the difference. Steven A. Cormier’s compiled history of the Acadians of Louisiana calls Jean Baptiste and several of the couple’s grandchildren Creoles^W, not Acadians.

An online family tree names the couple Pierre Paul Lambremont and Marie Francoise Eloy, gives him a birth at Natchez about 1725 and her a birth at Kaskaskia, in the Illinois Country, about 1730 and a death at New Orleans on 12 January 1773, and cites no record for any of these. The same tree quotes a printed abstract of the New Orleans sacramental registers for the baptism of a Michel, son of Pierre and Marie Francoise Eloy, born on 20 November 1770; the abstract rests on that quotation alone, and the date does not fit the age of 62 recorded at Michel Lambremont’s burial in 1829.

A Pierre Lambremont, son of a Pierre Lambremont killed in the Natchez massacre^W of 1729 and of Marie Martin, was apprenticed to a New Orleans tailor in 1737; no record is known that ties him to this man.

The family at St. Gabriel

When their son Michel married Marguerite Pelagie Braux, the widow of Pierre LeBlanc, at St. Gabriel on 15 October 1793, the register named his parents as “Pedro & M. Francisca Clois”. From 1796 the baptisms of Michel’s children name Pierre Lambremont and Francoise Eloi as the children’s paternal grandparents; one of those children was Marie Cidalise Lambremont, baptized on 18 May 1800. The same grandparents are named in the baptisms of nine children of Jean Baptiste Lambremont and Anne Marguerite Hamilton between 1797 and 1812, which points to Jean Baptiste as a second son of the couple, though his own marriage entry names different parents. Michel stood godfather to one of Jean Baptiste’s sons in 1799.

The entries up to 1800 give the couple’s names in Spanish, as Pedro and Francisca, and those from 1802 in French, as Pierre and Francoise. Her surname is written Clois in Michel’s marriage entry and in three baptisms of 1797 to 1799, Cloa in two of 1800, and Eloi or Elois in one of 1796 and in every entry from 1802 on. Michel’s marriage entry calls her M. Francisca, and a baptism of 1804 calls the couple Francois Pierre and Marie Francoise Eloi.

The marriage at Fort de Chartres

The marriage of December 1764 is entered in the Ste. Anne parish register at Fort de Chartres, Illinois Country, and in the Francogene list of Illinois marriages (Denis Beauregard), letter L.