Marie Louise Josephine Fortunata Mahé-Desportes

Other Events and Attributes:

• Probate: 8 Sep 1821, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

Her parents owned a plantation on Saint-Domingue; this seems to have been in the area of Arcahaye, outside of Port au Prince, since his family's records appear in the Arcahaye parish register.

Baptismal record:

D'an mille sept cent quatre vingt huit et le dix-huitieme jour du mois de juin a ete baptise Louise Fortune Marie Josephine, nee le cinq may de l'annee derniere, fille legitime de sieur Jean Baptiste Desport Mahe, et de dame Margueritte Goutelle de Beaumiere . . .

In year one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, eighteenth day of June, was baptized Marie Josephine Louise Fortune, born the fifth of May of last year, legitimate daughter of Sieur Jean Baptiste Desport Mahe and lady Margueritte Goutelle of Beaumiere . . .

Records for the birthdates (and relations) of Pierre Hacker's children comes from the Archdiocese Records of New Orleans (records of St. Louis Cathedral), especially baptismal records, and parish registers from Saint-Domingue.

She appears in the "General Index of all Successions Opened in the Parish of Orleans from the year 1805 to the year 1846 (comp. P.M. Bertin [Yeomans & Fitch: New Orleans, 1849]) as "Hacker, Marie L.J. Mahe Desportes, wife of. No volume or page number is given (102) (see on archive.org).

Probate document filed by Pierre Hacker after her death:

"Marie Louise Josephine Mahe-Desportes, the wife of your petitioner, departed this life on 11 June 1819, leaving 3 children born of her lawful marriage with your said petitioner, to wit: Jean Baptiste Hacker, about thirteen years and a half, Pierre Hacker about six years and a half, and Marguerite Hacker about four years and a half. That by the laws of the state, he is entitled to the tutorship of his said minor children. And your petitioner further says that he wishes to have the rights of his aforesaid children settled, and that's an inventory of the property which was in community between their mother and your petitioner be made. Wherefore he humbly prays that your honor may be pleased to admit him to take the usual of it's as natural guardian of his aforesaid minor children, to appoint them an [??] tutor and to authorize Mr. Lafitte, Esq., notary public of the city to take an inventory of the above {???] and property."`

Family/Spouse: Pierre Marie Hacker. Pierre (son of Joseph Hacker and Anne Denis) was born on 10 Nov 1782 in Saint-Domingue; was christened on 28 Jan 1783 in Croix-des-Bouquets, Saint-Domingue; died on 13 Apr 1835 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was buried in St. Louis Cemetery #2, New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dr. Jean Baptiste Hacker was born about 1810 in Louisiana; died on 4 Dec 1854 in Mississippi River, Ascension Parish, Louisiana.
2. Anne Louise Hacker was born on 18 Oct 1812; died on 10 Sep 1813 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was buried in St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana.
3. Pierre Aristide Hacker was born on 14 Dec 1814 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was christened on 27 Mar 1815 in St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana; died on 19 Nov 1841 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was buried in St. Louis Cemetery #2, New Orleans, Louisiana.
4. Marguerite Amelie Hacker was born on 20 Oct 1816 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was christened on 20 Apr 1817 in St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana; died on 17 Jun 1873 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was buried on 18 Jun 1873 in St. Louis Cemetery #2, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: planter

Notes:

His marriage record names him “officier des milites et habitant de la d. paroisse de L’arcahaye; natif de Plédran, en Bretagne, évêché St. Brieux; fils majeur et legitime de feu Sieur Jean Baptiste Mahé Desportes, vivant habitant de la d. paroisse de Plédran et de feuë dame Michelle Tanguy.”

He was a plantation owner on St. Domingue. The parish records say that the family lived on Montagne Terrible, above the town of Arcahaye. His children's birth records appear in the Arcahaye parish register.

Domingino gives the name “Tanguy” as a family connection, and gives the family’s place of origin as Plédran.

Another perhaps related name is in the area, Delaunay Mahé, that appears in parish records (as godparents) as early as 1773. They also appear as plantation owners in Domingino.

Charlotte may or may not be his daughter. She is named on her baptismal record as “fille naturale des Mahe Desporte”—that is, not “legitime,” and no parent is named.

His son Henry John Joseph, by Marie Radeau, was also natural but not legitimate. He was baptised at age 15, at which time Marguerite Goutelle was named as his “marraine,” godmother. He was an illegitimate son, and at this point Marguerite recognized him as her son. After the revolution, however, he stayed in the Caribbean, and was later married on Saint Barthélemy.

On the same day that their son Henry Jean Joseph was bapitized two other related baptisms happen: Jean Charles Mahé, son of Charles Mahé and Louise le Fevre; and Pierre Jean Eugene, son of Sieur Pierre Joseph Denys and Catherine Adelaide Desportes. Both are also residents of Montagne Terrible. They were also sponsors at the marriage of Pierre Gogniet and Marie Jeanne Esnard.

This record also appears in the NOLA death records; she may be a child:

Desportes, Rose Benedictine . . . 70 yrs, F . . . 11/27/1876 . . . vol. 67, page 640

Jean married Marguerite Louise Goutelle De Beaumier on 8 May 1781 in Jacmel, Saint-Domingue. Marguerite (daughter of Antoine Goutelle dit Beaumier and Marguerite Macgille) was born on 10 Jul 1761 in Baynet, Saint-Domingue; was christened on 2 Aug 1761 in Baynet, Saint-Domingue; died on 18 Jul 1836 in New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On the same day that Henry Jean Joseph was baptized two other related baptisms happen:

Jean Charles Mahé, son of Charles Mahé and Louise le Fevre; and Pierre Jean Eugene, son of Sieur Pierre Joseph Denys and Catherine Adelaide Desportes. Both are also residents of Montagne Terrible.

They were also sponsors at the marriage of Pierre Gogniet and Marie Jeanne Esnard.

Birth:
according to the baptismal record, she was born "le dixe de julliet dernier," and baptized “le duxieme jour” of the next month.

Died:
as "Margueritte Bontelle de Beaumier Desporte," aged 76 yrs.

Notes:

Name is on children’s parish records. He is named “Jean Baptiste Mahe, Sieur des portes” on his wife’s parish burial record.

Jean married Michelle Tanguy on 16 Feb 1746 in Plaintel, Côtes d'Armor, Bretagne, France. Michelle (daughter of Noël Tanguy and Marguerite Giquel) was born on 29 May 1722 in Plaintel, Côtes d'Armor, Bretagne, France; died on 3 Nov 1774 in Plédran, Côtes d'Armor, Bretagne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name is on children’s parish records.

Birth:
She is “age de vingt deux ans” on her marriage record, which proves to be a couple of years off.

Notes:

His name appears on his daughter's baptismal record. He was abt. 55 at his second marriage, “natife de Leonot diocèse de Tulle, pariosse de Saint-Privat, fils de Antoine Goutelle et Dame Jeanne de Viray, feu père at mère, veuf en première nôces de feùe Dame Margueritte Macgille, habitant a la Grande Riviére de ce Quartiér . . .”

Note the following reference. The parish of Saint-Privat seem to be Saint-Privat 19237, Tulle, Corrèze, which was part of the viscounty of Turenne. The département of Corrèze was formed out of Bas-Limousin.

ARNAUD (colonel Étienne) : «[Famille GOUTELLE de BAUMIER, Bas-Limousin - Saint-Domingue, XVIIIe s.]», La France Généalogique (Limoges, 1983), 25e année, volume 25, n°144, page 257:

UNE PIERRE A L'ÉDIFICE

LII - GOUTELLE de BAUMIER (Bas-Limousin - Saint-Domingue)
I - Antoine G., sr. de Baumier épouse dame Jeanne de VIRAY, dont:

II - Sr. Antoine G. de B., habitant de la Grande Rivière de Jacmel, né 1715 à Saint-Privat, vicomté de Turenne, diocêse de Tulle, se maria deux foix:

1°) à Baynet le 14.2.1752 avec Marguerite MacGILL, née 1730, + Baynet, inh. 1.1.1766, fille de feu Michel et de Marguerite BEAU, dont :
- Pierre-Antoine, né Baynet, + Port-au-Prince 18.5.1792
- Joseph, qui suit en III
- Michel, né ca 1757, inh. Croix-des-Bouquets 10.7.1796
- Marguerite, née 10.7.1761, bapt. Baynet 2.8.1761 ; elle ép. à Jacmel 8.5.1781 Jean-Baptiste-Etienne MAHÉ des PORTES, officier de milices au quartier de l'Arcahaye, natif de Plédran, évêché de Saint-Brieuc et en eut pté.
2°) à Jacmel le 16.8.1768 avec dame Ursule PIRON, âgée de 30 ans, native de Léogane, fille de feu Bernardin P. et de Marie-Rose GOLDRON, veuve en premières noces de feu Louis-François BREMOND, vivant habitant de cette paroisse.

III- Joseph G. de B., né 1.10.1756, bapt. Baynet 1.11.1756, habitant aux Cayes de Jacmel, inh. à Baynet le 13.10.1793; «mort des suites de ses blessures reçues en combattant les Anglais qui avaient fait une descente à l'embarcadère». Il avait ép. à Baynet le 20.10.1788 dlle. Claire-Balsamie MESTAYER, née 1768 en cette paroisse, fille de feu sr. Guillaume M., habitant et de dlle: Marie-Jeanne MASSÉ. Elle fut inh. à Baynet le 7.12.1792 ayant eu :
- Marie-Madeleine-Balsamie, née 30.1.1791, bapt. Baynet le 8.3.1791, y inh. 5.11.1792.

Antoine married Marguerite Macgille on 14 Feb 1752 in Baynet, Saint-Domingue. Marguerite (daughter of Michel Macgille and Margaret Broune) was born about 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her name comes from daughter's baptismal record. She does not seem to appear in Baynet records.

In Jacmel in 1737 Pierre Girard, native of La Rochelle, took a profession of faith and was then married to Catherine King “dite le Roy native de ce quartier de Jacmel paroisse de St. Phillip et St. Jacques, filles mineure de feu Sieur Jean King dit le Roy natif d’Antigue et de Dame Honeure Macgill native de Mountserrat ses Peres et Merese.” A witness to the profession and the marriage was Myles Macgill. When their child Marie Catherine was born in 1741 in Jacmel, they were named Pierre Girard and Catherine LeRoy (and Myles MacGill is a witness). Pierre Girard died in 1744 in Jacmel.

Notes:

His name appears on son’s birth record; on his marriage record he is named Sieur de Grandmaison. The appellation is also on his parish death record, which gives his age as “quatre vingt onze ans,” 91 years. His parents’ names are not on his marriage record, though it does say that he is from Plédran.

A number of sites say that he was the son of Julien Mahé (1651-1721) Sieur de la Villehéry, and was born in Plédran in June 1689, though I don’t see his parish birth record there.

They seem to have had a number of other children as well.

Etienne married Thérèse Mahé on 11 Feb 1710 in Plédran, Côtes d'Armor, Bretagne, France. Thérèse and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her maiden last name is Mahé. Her marriage record says that she is from St. Mathurin de Moncontour. It does not, however, tell her parents’ last names. It’s a bit of an unusual record in that she was not married in her home parish.

They seem to have had a number of other children as well.

Notes:

Name mentioned on children’s marriage records in Plaintel. At the same time as their marriage a Jan Guiqel and Anne Tanguy were married. Neither couple’s parents are named, however.

The name Tanguy (Tangui, Tainguy, etc.) appears in quite a few places in the Plédran & Plaintel parish records. The two towns are separated by about 5-10 km.

Noël married Marguerite Giquel on 19 Jul 1710 in Plaintel, Côtes d'Armor, Bretagne, France. Marguerite and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name mentioned on children’s marriage records in Plaintel. “Giquel” appears through Plaintel records at the time. Neither couple’s parents are named, however.

At the same time as their marriage a Jan Guiqel and Anne Tanguy were married.

Notes:

A variant might be "Goutail".

Antoine married Anne Dessirie. Anne and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I take her name from her son Antoine’s marriage record.

Notes:

Named in son Jean Baptiste’s marriage record.

Burial record: “Michel Macgille natif de Monsara agee d’énviron cinquante size a cinquante sept ans et habitante de cette paroisse”

Michel married Margaret Broune. Margaret was born about 1689 in Montserrat, Leeward Islands, Western Antilles; died on 19 Sep 1754 in Jacmel, Saint-Domingue. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Perhaps “Brown”? She is “Bron” on her daughter’s marriage record.

Her burial record: “Le corps de deffunte Margueritte Broune native de Monsarrat isle du Vent âgée d'environ soixante cinq ans. vivante dame veuve Macgille, habitante de Benest, décédée chez Madame Ve Brosse sa fille, munie des saints sacrements de notre mère la sainte Eglise . . . “

"The body of the deceased Margueritte Broune, a native of Monsarrat, Isle du Vent, aged about sixty-five years. The surviving widow Macgille, inhabitant of Benest, died at the home of Madame Le Brosse her daughter, provided with the holy sacraments of our mother holy Church. . . "