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In the 1731 Census of Louisiana (Census of Residences the Length of the River) Pierre Mayeux is listed at "Mayeux" at the Mayeux habitation. At his home are one woman, three children, no indentured workers, one man capable of bearing arms, one Negro slave, no Negro children, no Indian slaves, no horses, one horned beef, no goats or sheep, no kid sheep and one gun.842,843

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Marie Anne Françoise Cellier
Marie Cellier
Marianne Cellier

The current Département du Pas-de-Calais was formerly called the Province of Picardy.

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Baptism of Pierre Mahieu, son of Pierre Mahieu and Madeleine Lefeubure (20 September 1697) (Page 18 of 983) [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1] [Registres paroissiaux et d’état civil (collections communales déposées)]

Transcription
L’an mil six Cent quatrevingt dix sept et le vingeiéme
de septembre par moy Curé soussigné a eté baptisé
Pierre fils de Pierre Mahieu et Madeleine lefeubuve
Sa femme lequel naquit le meme jour le pére présent
qui a dit n’avoir que en enfan, le parrein Claude
ouavendeuphe la marreine Suzanne Mahieu qui
ont fait leurs marques
X
marque de Suzanne Mahieu
X
Marque de Claude ouavendeupher
francois lerillain

[ Note: The priest was François Lerillain ]




Translation
The year one thousand six Hundred ninety-seven and the twentieth
of september by me Parish Priest undersigned has been baptized
Pierre son of Pierre Mahieu and Madeleine lefeubuve
His wife who was born the same day the father present
who has said to not have another child, the godfather Claude
ouavendeuphe the godmother Suzanne Mahieu who
have made their marks
X
marque de Suzanne Mahieu
X
Marque de Claude ouavendeuphe
francois lerillain

[ Note: The priest was François Lerillain ]829

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Baptism of Pierre Mahieu, son of Pierre Mahieu and Madeleine Lefeubure (20 September 1697) (Page 14 of 233) [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série E-dépôt 538/1] [Registres paroissiaux et d’état civil (collections communales déposées)]


Transcription
L’an mil six Cent quatrevingt dix sept et le vingeiéme
de septembre par moy Curé soussigné a eté baptisé
Pierre fils de Pierre Mahieu et Madeleine lefeubure
Sa femme lequel naquit le meme jour le pére présent
qui a dit n’avoir que en enfan, le parrein Claude
ouavendeuphe la marreine Suzanne Mahieu qui
ont fait leurs marques
X
marque de Suzanne Mahieu
X
Marque de Claude ouavendeuphe
francois lerillain

[ Note: The priest was François Lerillain ]



Translation
The year one thousand six Hundred ninety-seven and the twentieth
of september by me Parish Priest undersigned has been baptized
Pierre son of Pierre Mahieu and Madeleine lefeubure
His wife who was born the same day the father present
who has said to not have another child, the godfather Claude
ouavendeuphe the godmother Suzanne Mahieu who
have made their marks
X
marque de Suzanne Mahieu
X
Marque de Claude ouavendeuphe
francois lerillain

[ Note: The priest was François Lerillain ]840


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Pierre Mayeux does not appear in the 1726 Census of Louisiana.841

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In the 1731 Census of Louisiana (Census of Residences the Length of the River) Pierre Mayeux is listed at "Mayeux" at the Mayeux habitation. At his home are one woman, three children, no indentured workers, one man capable of bearing arms, one Negro slave, no Negro children, no Indian slaves, no horses, one horned beef, no goats or sheep, no kid sheep and one gun.842,843

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In the Census of Pointe Coupée, Louisiana on 20 December 1745, Pierre Mahyeux is listed as 48 years of age, married to Marie Francoise Manne (38 years of age) and has three daughters: Cecile Mahyeux (16 years of age), Magdelaine Mahyeux (12 years of age) and Marguerite Mahyeux (10 years of age). He had 6 adult male black slaves, 6 adult female black slaves, 4 black slaves that were boys and 6 black slaves that were girls. He had 1 horse, 36 cattle, 8 hogs, 4 muskets, 1 pistol, 10 pounds of powder, 4 pounds of lead & balls; 150 bushels of corn, 40 bushels of beans, 15 units of tobacco and 80 arpents of cultivated land.771,822

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Burial of Pierre Mayeux (17 Dec 1747) [Parish Register of St. François of Pointe Coupée Catholic Church; Diocese of Baton Rouge, LA; Pointe Coupée, LA (Volume 2, Page 34 (PCP-2-34); Transcription, Volume 1, Page 84 (PCP-1,84)]

Transcription
L'an mil sept cent quarante sept le seze decembre et mort en labsebce du pretre curé missre de la pointe coupée pierre mayeux son corps a eté enterré dans le cémettiere de cette pariosse le dix sept selon les temoins en foy dequoy je signé le jour Mois et anné cy dessus

fr barnabé Cap missre et Curé de la pointe coupée


Translation
The year one thousand seven hundred forty seven the sixteenth of december and died in the absence of the missinary parish priest of pointe coupée pierre mayeux his body has been interred in the cemetery of this parish the seventeenth pursuant to the witnesses in testimony whereof I signed the day month and year as above

fr. barnabé Capuchin missionary and Parish Priest of pointe coupée844

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DETERMINING THE PARENTS OF PIERRE MAYEUX

[Note: A significant amount of the information below was found on the website “My Louisiana Lineage – Including Early Pointe Coupée & Avoyelles Colonists and Their Roots in Canada, France, Germany…” by Ms. Cathy Lemoine Sturgell. It is located under “Eleventh Generation. 2040. Pierre Mayeux”. Viewed 14 February 2020.
http://louisianalineage.com/index.htm
http://louisianalineage.com/b60.htm#P119 ]

The first Mayeux known to reach Louisiana was Pierre Mayeux who came on the ship Le Profond – leaving La Rochelle, France (Chrente-Martime Département) on 10 June 1720 and arriving at Ship Island on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico on 16 September 1720. He then made the 12-mile trip from Ship Island to Biloxi in a smaller,shallow-draft craft. Also on the Le Profond was Marie Sellier (Cellier) – either his wife or his future wife. Pierre Mayeux was coming to Lousiana to settle on John Law’s Concession on the Arkansas River in the present state of Arkansas. On the manifest of the Le Profond Pierre is listed as a worker or labourer (ouvriers). Marie Sellier is listed on a separate page as a woman or wife (fammes, i.e., femmes). [Manifest of the “Le Profond” sailing from La Rochelle, France on 10 June 1720; Archives Nationales, Archives des Colonies; Archives Nationalies d’Outre-Mer (Aix-en-Province, France); MG1, G1, Volume 464, 9 pages; Microfilms C-10206 & F-804]

John Law’s Concession on the Arkansas River was a failure as less than 50 colonists settled there. In April or May 1721 they traveled from Biloxi to the Concession on the Arkansas River using an inland route that included Lake Borgne, Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Maurepas, Amite River, Iberville River (today Bayou Manchac) and the Mississippi River. The arrived at the Concession four months later in August 1721. Our only proof that Pierre Mayeux and Marie Sellier actually reached and lived at the Concession is the marriage certificate of their oldest child François Pierre Mayeux to Nicole Prevot, daughter of Nicolas Prevot and Yves Dubo on 11 February 1745. In this document François Pierre Mayeux declares that he is a native of Arkansas (natif des Akansas). [St. Francis of Pointe Coupée Parish Registers; Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Volume 2, Pages 19b (PCP-2, 19b), 37 (PCP-2, 37) and Volume 1 Page 56 (PCP-1, 56 - Transcription); Books: Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records; Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge; Baton Rouge, LA; 1999 & 2002; Volume 1 pp. 195, 210 & Volume 1b pp. 121, 152.] François Pierre Mayeux was born ca. 1723 as he is listed as being 22 years of age in the 1745 Census of Point Coupée, Louisiana. [“General Census of the Inhabitants of Point Coupée, December 20, 1745”; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery; San Marino, CA; Vaudreuil Paper; LO 54; Book: Bill Barron; Census of Pointe Coupée, Louisiana – 1745; Polyanthos, Inc.; New Orleans, LA; 1978; p. 9]

At the Arkansas Post Pierre Mayeux’s job was to work with a crew of men clearing timber and building houses for the expected influx of German colonists due to arrive in 1722. Of course, he also had to build his own home and plant a small garden. Pierre Mayeux and Marie Sellier do not appear in the Census of the Arkansas Post on 25 February 1723. They likely were there and may have not been listed for one of two reasons: (1) The census listed by name the persons along the river, but at the concession itself only listed “14 Frenchmen, one woman and six Negro slaves”. It is possible that Pierre Mayeux was one of the 14 Frenchmen and Marie Sellier was the woman listed. When the German immigrants did not arrive in 1722, the Concession collapsed and the workers dispersed. Pierre and Marie likely remained at the Arkansas Post Concession as we see they had a child Pierre François Mayeux there in 1723.

PARENTS OF PIERRE MAYEUX
We have little information on who the parents of Pierre Mayeux were. In two records we learn that Pierre Mayeux originally was from a small French town Maintenay in today’s province of Pas-de-Calais. In Pierre’s marriage contract with Marie Françoise Mane (widow of Laurent David), we learn that “Pierre Mayeux habitant a la pointe Coupé >>>Veuf de Marie Cellier Natif de Maintenay En Picardie Eveche damiens dune part” [Pierre Mayeux resident at Pointe Coupée … Widower of Marie Cellier, Native of Maintenay In Picardy, Bishopric of Amiens of one part] (Note that Picardy of 1739 is today where the Pas-de-Calais Province is.) [Marriage Contract of Pierre Mayeux and Marie Françoise Mane, 27 February 1739; Louisiana Historical Center; Louisiana State Museum; 751 Chartres Street; New Orleans, Louisiana; Folio Volume 11, 2543, 11102-11104; 4 pages]

Pierre Mayeux and Marie Sellier left La Rochelle, France on 10 June 1720 on the “Le Profond” and reached Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Biloxi on 16 September 1720. [Manifest of the “Le Profond” sailing from La Rochelle, France on 10 June 1720; Archives Nationales, Archives des Colonies; Archives Nationalies d’Outre-Mer (Aix-en-Province, France); MG1, G1, Volume 464, 9 pages; Microfilms C-10206 & F-804]

On 20 December 1745 Pierre Mayeux was listed as in the Census of Ponte Coupée, Louisana as being 48 years of age. This would estimate his birth year as being ca. 1697. [General Census of the Inhabitants of Pointe Coupée, December 20, 1745; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery; San Marino, California; Vaudreuil Papers; LO 54; Barron, Bill; “Census of Pointe Coupée, Louisiana – 1745”; (Polyanthos, Inc.; New Orleans, LA; 1978; page 25].

In October 1986 Ima Adams Centanni published a short article “Additional Information on Pierre Mayeux” in The New Orleans Genesis. Ms. Centanni was able to have a local person in the Maintenay, France area research the original parish registers of Saint-Nicolas Catholic Church in Maintenay, France, The researcher found the baptismal certificate of a Pierre Mahieu, who was baptized on 26 August 1699. (Note: The actual date of baptism on the certificate is 12 April 1699.) The parents of Pierre Mahieu were listed as François Mahieu and Marie Breslin or Greslin. (Note: atually listed as Brelin or Grelin). In addition, the researcher located the 27 June 1693 marriage certificate of François Mahieu and Marie Brelin. [Centanni, Ima Adams; The New Orleans Genesis (Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans; New Orleans, LA; Volume XXV, No. 100; October 1986, Page 529]

Since 1986, many articles and genealogical trees have appeared that list for Pierre Mayeux who came to America on the Le Profond in 1720 the baptismal date of 26 August 1699 and his parents as François Mayeux and Marie Breslin.

In recent years the original registers of many Catholic church parishes throughout France have been placed on the Internet and are free to use. The parish registers of Saint-Nicolas Catholic Church in Maintenay, France are among them. A close review of the parish registers for Saint-Nicolas Catholic Church in Maintenay, France prove that the Pierre Mahieu baptized in 1699 and whose parents were François Mahieu and Marie Brelin could not have been the Pierre Mayeux who came to America in 1720 on the Le Profond. [Parish registers for Saint-Nicolas Catholic Church in Maintenay, France are available at: https://archivespasdecalais.fr/Archives-en-ligne/Histoire-d-une-personne/Etat-civil/Actes ]

The Saint-Nicolas Catholic Church registers provide a substantial amount of information on the family of François Mahieu and Marie Brelin. All of the baptisms, burial and deaths cited below were recorded in the registers of Saint-Nicolas.

François Mahieu married Marie Brelin at Maintenay on 27 June 1693. Although all of their parents are not listed, Nicole Bueguet, the mother of François Mahieu is a witness to the marriage as is Jacques Grandsire, the father-in-law of François, Josse Brelin, the brother of Marie Brelin and Adrien Brelin, the cousin of Marie Brelin. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série E 3 538/1; page 3 of 333]

François Mahieu, son of François Mahie and Marie Brelin, was baptized on 24 April 1694. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 5 of 983 and Sous-Série E-dépôt 538/1, page 4 of 233]

Claude Mahieu, son of François Mahie and Marie Brelin, was baptized on 11 November 1695. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 11 of 983 and Sous-Série E-dépôt 538/1, page 8 of 233]

Marie Jeanne Mahieu, daughter of François Mahie and Marie Brelin, was baptized on 20 July 1697. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 18 of 983 and Sous-Série E-dépôt 538/1, page 14 of 233] She was buried in the parish cemetery at Saint-Nicolas on 19 December 1698. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 27 of 983]

Pierre Mahieu, son of François Mahie and Marie Brelin, was baptized on 12 April 1699. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 28 of 983 and Sous-Série E-dépôt 538/1, page 22 of 233]


Jacques Mahieu, son of François Mahie and Marie Brelin, was baptized on 8 October 1702. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 55 of 983 and Sous-Série E-dépôt 538/1, page 40 of 233]

On 26 September 1724 François Mahieu married Marie Jeanne Lignieu. Witnesses at the marriage were Pierre Mahieu and Jacques Mahieu, listed as brothers of François Mahieu. Signing the document with their marks were Pierre Mahieu, Jacque Mahieu and Claude Mahieu. Signing with his name was François Mahieu.. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 242 of 983]

On 11 February 1727 Pierre Mahieu married Gabrielle Dix. Witnesses at the marriage were François Mahieu and Jacques Mahieu, listed as brothers of François Mahieu. Signing the document with their marks were Pierre Mahieu and Jacque Mahieu. Signing with his name was François Mahieu.. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 274 of 983]

On 3 May 1735 Pierre Majeu married Marie Barbier. Signing the document with his mark was Jacque Majeu.. Signing with his name was Pierre Majeu.. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 321 of 983]

The above entries in the parish registers of Saint-Nicolas Catholic Church confirm that François Mahieu and Marie Brelin had at least four sons (François, Claude, Pierre and Jacques) and one daughter Marie Jeanne who died at about six months of age.

Furthermore, Pierre Mahieu, son of François Mahieu and Marie Brelin, was still in the Maintenay area for several years after 1720. He and his two brothers Jacques and Claude were present at the marriage of their brother François Mahie to Marie Jeanne Lignieu in 1724. In a small community such as Maintenay it would be very unusual to have two Mahieu families with four sons all named François, Claude, Pierre and Jacques. In fact, a thorough review of the parish registers of Saint-Nicolas does not reveal any other Mahieu families that have more than one child.

Additionally, in 1727 at the marriage of Pierre Mahieu and Gabrielle Dix were his brothers François and Jacques as stated in the marriage certificate. Certainly, this Pierre Mahieu was the son of François Mahieu and Marie Brelin as no other Mahieu family in the Saint-Nicolas parish registers of the 1690-1730 period had three sons with the names François, Pierre and Jacques.

Pierre Mahieu, the son of François Mahieu and Marie Brelin, could not have been the Pierre Mahieu that came to North America in 1720 on the Le Profond as he was still in Maintenay, France in the 1720s.

A thorough perusal of the Saint-Nicolas Catholic Church parish registers in Maintenay do idenitify another Pierre Mahieu being baptized in the 1690s. This Pierre Mahieu was baptized at Saint-Nicolas Catholic Church on 20 September 1697 and was the son of Pierre Mahieu and Madeleine Lefeubure. The record states that he was born the same day that he was baptized and that he was the only child of this couple at the time of his baptism. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Nicolas at Maintenay, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 538/1, page 18 of 983 and Sous-Série E-dépôt 538/1, page 14 of 233]

The marriage record of Pierre Mahieu and Madeleine Lefebure is found at Église Catholique Saint-Martin at Saulchoy, Pas-de-Calais, France. The couple married on 16 October 1696. [Parish Registers of Église Catholique Saint-Martin at Saulchoy, Pas-de-Calais, France; Sous-Série 5 MIR 783/1, page 270 of 1286]

We find no further record of this Pierre Mahieu or his parents in the Saint-Nicolas or the Saint-Martin parish registers during the 1690s or early 1700s. Thus, it is likely that Pierre Mahieu, son of Pierre Mahieu and Madeleine Lefebure, did come to North America in 1720 on the Le Profond.

The marriage record of Pierre Mayeux and Marie Cellier (Sellier) has not been found in the records at Maintenay, France nor in Louisiana. If located, this document may confirm the parentage of Pierre Mayeux.

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Pierre Mayeux
Pierre Mahyeux
Pierre Mahieu
Pierre Maieux
Maieux
Maiux
Mayeux