Michel Boudrot-Brooke Boudreaux

1601-1988

France

• My family tree begins in Cognes, France in 1601.

• Cognes is near La Rochelle.

Cognes, France

Michel Boudrot

• He was born in Cognes, France in 1601.

• He is the first generation of my family.

Michelle Aucoin

• She was born in Cognes, France in 1614.

• 1639 – Michel and Michelle went to Port Royal, Acadia.

• They married in 1641.

• They had 11 children.

• 7 sons and 4 daughters.

The Children of Michel and Michelle Boudrot

• Francoise

• Jeanne

• Marguerite

• Charles

• Marie

• Jean

• Abraham

• Michel

• Olivier

• Claude

• Francois

The Family of Michel Boudrot

• Michel, Michelle, and their children lived in Acadia.

• Today, Acadia is called Nova Scotia.

• It is in southeast Canada.

Charles Boudrot

• Son of Michel and Michelle Boudrot.• He is the second generation of my family.• He was born in Port Royal, Acadia in 1649.• He married in 1674 to Renée Bourg.• They had six children.• He married again in 1687 to Marie Corporon.• They had 9 children.• Jérôme, Denis, Paul, Pierre, François, Joseph,

Marie-Josephe, Madeleine, and Marguerite.

Denis Boudrot

• Son of Charles Boudrot and Marie Corporon.

• He is the third generation of my family.• He was born in Port Royal, Acadia in 1690.• He married in 1710 to Agnès Vincent.• They had 8 children.• Charles Denis, Olivier, Jean, Anselme,

Anne, Alexandre, Félix, and Marie-Josephe.

Charles Denis Boudrot

• Son of Denis and Agnès Boudrot.

• He is the fourth generation of my family.

• He was born in Port Royal, Acadia in 1710.

• He married in 1735 to Cécile Terriot.

• They lived in Île Saint-Jean (St. John’s Island), Acadia.

Île Saint-Jean

After Île Saint-Jean

• Between 1752 and 1762, Charles Denis went to Cherbourg, France.

• He married again in 1762 to Madeleine Bourgeois.

• Charles and Madeleine were refugees in Saint-Malo, France, south of Cherbourg.

Cherbourg, France

Joseph Boudrot

• Son of Charles Boudrot and Madeleine Bourgeois.• He is the fifth generation of my family.• He was born in Bretagne, France (near Cherbourg

and Saint-Malo) in 1770.• He moved back in 1790 to Havre, Île Saint-Jean,

Acadia.• He married in 1792 to Elizabeth “Isabelle” Trahan.• They came in 1792 to Lafayette, Louisiana near the

Bayou Vermilion.

The Journey: FranceAcadiaFranceAcadiaLouisiana

Joseph Boudrot

• Son of Joseph Boudrot and Isabelle Trahan.

• He is the sixth generation of my family.

• He was born in St. Martinville, Louisiana in 1796.

• He married in 1815 to Lise Marie LaBoue.

• They lived in St. Martinville.

Joseph Boudreaux

• Son of Joseph and Lise M.L. Boudrot.• He is the seventh generation of my family.• He was born in St. Martinville, Louisiana in 1816.• He married in 1836 to Marie Silvanie Bourg

(today it is Bourque).• They lived in Lafayette, Louisiana.• The name Boudrot is changed to Boudreaux.

Jules Desire Boudreaux

• Son of Joseph and Marie S.B. Boudreaux.

• He is the eighth generation of my family.

• He was born in Lafayette, Lousiana in 1850.

• He married between 1870 and 1873 to Marie Belzire Trahan.

• They lived in Vermilion Parish.

Desire Boudreaux

• Son of Jules Desire and Marie B.T. Boudreaux.

• He is the ninth generation of my family.

• He was born in 1873.

• He married in 1896 to Alidia Landry.

• They lived between Kaplan and Crowley.

Clores Boudreaux

• Son of Desire and Alidia Boudreaux.

• He is the tenth generation of my family.

• He was born in 1900.

• He married between 1922 and 1924 to Levie Broussard.

• They lived in Kaplan.

Houston Gabriel Boudreaux

• Son of Clores and Levie Boudreaux.• He is the eleventh generation of my family.• He was born in Kaplan in 1928.• He married in 1950 to Ruby Mae Breaux.• They lived in Kaplan.• Houston and Ruby are my grandparents.• They had 4 children.• Cheryl, Jed, Cloris and Rona.

Jed Milton Boudreaux

• Son of Houston and Ruby Boudreaux.

• He is the twelfth generation of my family.

• He was born in Kaplan in 1954.

• He married in 1976 to Gayla Faith Baudoin.

• They had three children.

• Hunter, Beau, and Me.

Brooke Lauren Boudreaux

• Daughter of Jed Boudreaux and Gayla Baudoin.

• I am the thirteenth generation of my family.

• I was born in Covington in 1988.

Boudreaux families in

1981

Michel Boudrot-Brooke Boudreaux

Were born in France

Were born in Acadia

Were born in Lousiana