♀Scholastique Breaux

Scholastique Breaux (born 1782) was a woman of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, the wife of Cyrille Thibodeaux and the mother of at least six children. She was the fourth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Placide Cyrille Thibodeaux (1802–1838).

Her parents

She was probably born in 1782. A Thibodeaux genealogy published in the Attakapas Gazette in 1985, citing the St. Martin church registers, names her parents as Pierre Firmin Breaux and Marguerite Breaux. A history of Breaux Bridge in the same journal in 1984 bears this out from a probate paper: the gift of land that Firmin Breaux made to his twelve children, cited to St. Martin Parish Succession No. 38 of 30 January 1809, lists among them “Scholastique, wife of Cyril Thibodeaux”, and notes that he made the gifts to his daughters in the names of their husbands.

According to that history, the village of Breaux Bridge later grew up on land her father occupied on both sides of Bayou Teche. It was named for her brother Agricole, who owned part of the land and built the bridge. A compilation by Cormier on Acadian families adds that Marguerite Breaux died on 1 September 1815 “at Cyrille THIBAUDOT at la grand pointe”, aged 68, which would make her daughter’s house at Grande Pointe her last home.

Marriage and children

The 1985 genealogy gives her marriage to Cyrille Thibodeaux at St. Martin on 10 November 1799. The same article gives the births of their sons Placide on 4 October 1802, Achille on 16 June 1806 and Olivier on 8 July 1819, and indexes of St. Martin baptisms add a daughter, Josephine, in 1803 and a son, Joseph, in 1809. The sixth child, Belzire, has no recorded birth date. A compiled Acadian genealogy adds a son, Édouard, in 1801 and a daughter, Isabelle, in 1808; a baptism index also gives an Isabelle born to this couple on 25 June 1808, who may be the same daughter as Belzire. The record for Placide writes his mother’s surname as “Bro”. The 1985 genealogy records that Placide married Mathilde Valentine Landry on 20 November 1820, that Achille married Euphrosine Landry in 1825, and that Olivier married Apolline Arthemise Melancon in 1840.

Widowhood

Cyrille died on 25 October 1829. On 13 November Scholastique petitioned the St. Martin probate court as his widow and as guardian of their minor son Olivier, and named as his heirs Olivier, Placide, Achille, Josephine, the wife of Pierre Guidry, and Belzire, the wife of Olivier Guidry junior. Joseph, born in 1809, is not among them. The family is the same one that appears in 1854, when Achille’s estate was inventoried and named as his heirs his brother Olivier, his sisters Josephine and Belzire, and the sons of his deceased brother Placide. None of these sources gives a date for Scholastique’s death.

Notes

Other women of the name appear in the same records and are not the wife of Cyrille Thibodeaux: the wife of Joseph-Ignace Landry, born about 1751; a Scholastique Breaux who married Simon Benjamin LeBlanc; and Scholastique Picou, the widow of her brother Agricole Breaux.

Birth

Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens (2nd edition, Ottawa), volume 6, page 2439, lists the children of Firmin Breaux and Marguerite Breaux, with “Scholastique, 1782” among them. That is a compiled list, so the year is graded compiled and no day is given. A WikiTree profile gives 28 August 1782 at St. Martinville without a source; that day is left out here.