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BELGIANS IN AMERICA: Belgian settlements by State
Distribution
according to the State of settlement : Indiana |
Vincennes | Perry County |
Leopold, Perry County
Index of Belgians family names Albert, Allard, Bel(l), Belva, Bigonville, Bodart, Boly, Claise/clesse, Collignon, Collin, Damin, Dauby, Delaisse, Deom, Devillez, Ducat, Duparque, Dupont, Etienne, Evrard, Fanard, Fays, Flamion, Foury, Francois, Genet, Genlain, Georges, Gillardin, Goffinet, Grave, Gringoire, Guillaume, Hanouille, Harbaville, Houlmont, Hubert, Jacob, Jacques, Kergen, Lagrange, Lambert, Lamquin(lampkin), Lanotte, Laurent, Leclere, Lemaire, Marchal, Masson, Marciliat, Massut, Meunier, Morse, Naviaux, Nicolay, Pierrard, Pierre, Ponsard, Remy, Richard, Rogier, Spirlet, Tassin, Thi(e)ry, Tibessart
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indiana: PERRY COUNTY |
If Wisconsin, in the Green Bay area,
hosted the largest number of our emigrants, other states in the region
(Illinois, Michigan and Indiana) also listed some colonization points. Those lists of Belgian settlers along the Ohio River area are based on many
sources. First of all is the Jean Ducat book “De Semois en Indiana” published in
Belgium in 1992. As he wrote in that book, no longer available, the
list of Belgian settlers at Leopold, Perry County, can be considered
as “a working tool”. Twenty years later, the world as changed and a lot of
tools added for somebody searching to establish such a list. The cyber world at
least changed. Now, tools like Ancestry, Geneanet, Find a
Grave, Fold3, FamilySearch, and others; have put on the web a
lot of information available to anybody searching to complete such lists.
And, taking only into account the 30-year period between the independence
of Belgium and the beginning of the Civil War, we can locate the largest
Belgian colony (outside the State of Wisconsin) to Leopold,
in the far south of Indiana, not far from the Ohio River and not far from
the city of Vincennes, the first white settlement in the area.
My main source, after Ducat book, was the “Family Trees” section of
Ancestry. I searched hundreds of those trees, with good or bad
results. Some were very detailed and accurate, but others were a ramble of
data with such things as children death before their father was born,
people listed in censuses after their death, and all the children with
similar family names, found in the same area, gathered under the
same parents. Brothers or cousin were often intermingled. Men were married twice
at the same time with differents spouses. People were born in the wrong place:
in Belgium after having emigrated or, on the contrary, in the States
before emigrating. They were also born, married, died at different
times and places following the autors of those family trees. The lists of
children are the most difficults ones, as the births place and date,
marriage and death, vary considerably from a genealogy list to the other.
At Ancestry, the "censuses" and "ship arrivals" sections,
complete each family, when I was able to find them. With also their
defaults: misspellings and "lost" members in families or families who avoided
listing themselves. For the ship lists, some families are uterly not
findable. Either because the manifest is lost and was not transcribed or because
their family name was so unreadable by the transcribers that linking to them was
beyond my abilities. A last list is the draft records taken in Indiana and Ohio
during the Civil War. It gives the birth place of the men fit to be enlisted in
the Union armies.
Belgian sources are also now available on line. The
official registers recording the birth, marriage and death are now
on-line at FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&countryId=1927071)
and the Belgin State Archives gives the Parochial Records (http://search.arch.be/fr/tips/98-registresparoissiaux)
and somme official registers also on-line (http://search.arch.be/fr/tips/101-etat-civil).
It's the recent availability of those Belgian sources that pushed me to begin
that work of expanding Father Ducat book to other areas than Leopold,
adding information concerning the birth place and date for the Belgian settlers
and their marriage and death, and adding marriage and death information
for their children.
On Line, are also Indiana sources I used: the
Southern Indiana Connection (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?includedb=southerindiana),
the Saint Augustine’s Catholic Church baptisms from 1850 to 1895,
established by Sue Yamtich for the Belgium-Roots Project (http://belgium.rootsweb.com/usa/in/perry/in_leopold_augustine01_1850.html).
Other sources are in libraries and archives: Gail Bisbey sent me the list
of Declaration of Intent, found in the Tell City Public Library, and
established by Don Goffinet and Jean Ducat from the Cannelton Courthouse
Archives. The "History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties,
Indiana" gives also some biographies of the Belgian settlers. I also added
family stories, obituaries and any information found when doing those
searches: extract of letters and books, photos, tombstones
photo of those settlers have been added to gives more understanding of the life
of those people.
The list in "The Belgians of Perry County"
is an alphabetical list. I omitted the people arriving in the area after the
Civil War, as they cannot be named “early settlers” any more. They are
listed bellow. I tried, for each family to find their
first appearance in the censuses, date and place. The 1850 census for
those arriving before 1850, and the 1860 one for the others. If nothing
else was available, the first census where they are listed. I also tried
to connect the immigrants with their ship and how they were listed in the ship
manifest. Not always with success, for the censuses or the ship manifests
either.
For each family, I indicated they date and place of birth,
marriage and death and the date of their Declaraton of Intent (DIN). I limited
the search of their children at those having immigrated with them and those born
in the USA. For the single people, I limited the list to their wife or
husband they married in the USA, and their children. Not all the
information was always available, and the one available not always
accurate or even reliable. So, you’ll often find a lot of question-mark.
Arrivals at Leopold in later years
Name
born
arrival
DIN
ANTOINE
Leopold
1883/03/15
Antwerp - New York
1884/10/27
AUBRY
Henry
1830 Jamoigne 1880/04/07
1882/04/03
CLAISSE/CLESSE
Albert
1847
1886/05/18
Antwerp - Philadelphia
1888/11/03
DELAISSE
Jacques joseph
1881/10/01
Antwerp - New York
1882/11/07
DEOM
Jean Nicolas
1885/10/20
Antwerp - New York
1886/11/01
DROUARD
Charles A
1878/11/27
Le Havre - New York
1882/11/07
DROUARD
Joseph
1877/10/26
Le Havre - New York
1880/10/09
DUPONT
Nicolas
1848
1880/04/07
Le Havre - New York
1882/04/03
GOFFINET
J Alphonse
1882/12/20
Le Havre - New York
1888/11/02
GUILLAUME
Jacques Hippolite
1880/04/06
Antwerp - New York
188 /04/05
JACOB
Joseph
1886/04/25
- New York
1888/11/05
KAUFMAN
1867/06/27
1868/10/07
LAVAUX
Joseph
1838
1884/05/18
From Le Havre to New Orleans
1888/10/27
LECLERE
Constant
1870/03/05
Antwerp - New York
1880/05/27
LECLERE
Jean Baptiste
1870/01/20
Antwerp - New York
1874/10/08
LEMAIRE
Francois Xavier
1878/04/03
Le Havre - Philadelphia
1878/10/08
LONGLY
Aubert
1872/05/23
Antwerp - New York
1880/10/21
LOUIS
Nicolas
1826
1880/04/07
Antwerp - New York
1880/05/04
PAUPORTE
Emile
1839
1870/02/23
Liverpool - New York
THIRY
Joseph
1843
1872/03/19
Le Havre - Detroit
1880/08/28
SHIPS with Belgian emigrants for Leopold
Gironde | Le Havre – New York | August | 16 | 1837 | Draime |
Saladin | Le Havre – New Orleans | January | 4 | 1839 | Bezy |
Salem | Le Havre – New Orleans | November | 28 | 1839 | Gillardin |
Mayflower II | Le Havre – New Orleans | January | 17 | 1842 | Goffinet, Pierre |
Louis Philippe | Le Havre – New York | April | 14 | 1843 | Houlmont |
Oregon | Le Havre - New Orleans | May | 2 | 1843 | Belva, Meunier |
Austerlitz | Le Havre - New Orleans | June | 8 | 1847 | Kergen, Clesse |
Elena | Le Havre - New Orleans | August | 1 | 1847 | Allard |
Viola | Le Havre - New Orleans | August | 1 | 1847 | Belva |
Windsor Castle | Le Havre - New Orleans | October | 19 | 1848 | Goffinet |
Hargrave | Le Havre - New Orleans | February | 5 | 1849 | Lanotte |
Austerlitz | Le Havre - New Orleans | November | 26 | 1849 | Marchal |
Gallia | Le Havre - New York | May | 9 | 1850 | Lamquin |
Charlemagne | Le Havre - New Orleans | October | 17 | 1850 | Collignon, Dazy, Flamion, Genet, Guillaume, Hanouille, Meunier |
Lancashire | Le Havre - New Orleans | October | 14 | 1851 | Devillez |
Belle Assise | Le Havre - New Orleans | December | 23 | 1851 | Etienne, Thiry |
Attala | Le Havre - New Orleans | December | 8 | 1851 | Albert, Bell, Collin, Damin, Evrard, Fanard, Fays, Harbaville, Lambert |
Elizabeth | Le Havre - New Orleans | March | 31 | 1852 | Goffinet, Graves |
Zunch | Le Havre - New Orleans | February | 3 | 1853 | Marciliat |
Isnardon | Le Havre - New Orleans | April | 21 | 1853 | Devillez |
Belle Assise | Le Havre - New Orleans | April | 23 | 1853 | Devillez, Lambert, Pierrard |
Athens | Le Havre - New Orleans | May | 13 | 1853 | Leonard |
Athens | Le Havre - New Orleans | November | 28 | 1853 | Hubert, Spirlet |
Samuel Radger | Le Havre - New York | December | 5 | 1853 | Georges |
Globe | Le Havre - New Orleans | March | 29 | 1854 | Duparque |
Moser Taylor | Le Havre - New Orleans | May | 25 | 1854 | Etienne, Evrard, Goffinet, Lanotte, Rogier, Tibessart |
Monmouth | Le Havre - New Orleans | June | 26 | 1854 | Leclere, Lemaire, Leonard, Nicolay |
Belle Assise | Le Havre - New Orleans | November | 8 | 1854 | Dupont, Etienne, Goffinet |
Heidelberg | Le Havre - New Orleans | December | 5 | 1854 | Gringoire, Lagrange |
Mary | Le Havre - New York | August | 3 | 1855 | Georges |
Buena Vista | Antwerp - Boston | April | 17 | 1856 | Ducat |
Lancaster | Le Havre - New York | March | 15 | 1864 | Georges |
Names not found: Dauby (1854) Deom
(1854) Foury (?)
Houlmont/Holman (1843) Jacques (1833/36) Jacques (1854) Laurent (1854)
Masson (1850/1854) Meunier (1850/1853) Morse () Naviaux (1852)