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- On her marriage record she is named as a native of St. Martin Parish, Marseilles, just as her mother is.
On 9 March 1855 Widow Desiree Vignaud, née Fouque, died, aged 76. (Obit in the Bee/L'Abeille, 1855-03-10, Pg. 1 col. 4). Names mentioned in the obit include Vignaud, Menard, Oebruichen, and Guesnard. Son is O. Vignaud. The "widow Vignaud" appears in the 1850 census for New Orleans (4th Ward) in the house of her son Oscar Vignaud (born about 1814), married to Heloise, with four children, and two others, perhaps sisters of Oscar, named Annette and Clementine.
She would have been born, then, about 1780. This leaves two possibilities. First, I might need to revise the birth date of Joseph.
Second, this Desiree d. 1855 may be the sister of Joseph Fouque, and Desiree and her brother Joseph may have had a father also named Joseph--and thus maybe this *father* Joseph Fouque is being called to the stand in this case. And perhaps it is father Joseph who tried to start the plantation as well. And perhaps, then, it is this father Joseph who died in 1813? There is no Joseph Fouque in the NOLA death indices, however.
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