Marie Octavie Couret
1852 - 1876 (24 years)
Abt 1817 - 1880 (63 years)-
Name Marie Octavie Couret Birth 7 Aug 1852 New Orleans, Louisiana 
Gender Female Death 13 Aug 1876 Patriarch & Matriarch 
Jean Louis Couret
b. Abt 1817, Auzas, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
d. Aug 1880, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana (Age 63 years) (Father) 
Cilesie Fontenot
d. Yes, date unknown (Grandmother)Notes - This is their marriage certificate:
"This is to Certify, That it appears from the Records of this office, that on this day, to wit: the Seventh of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy four and the ninety eight of the Independence of the United States of America, (May 7th 1874), was registered a marriage celebrated in the city of New Orleans by Rev. Abel Perche on the 4th day of May 1874 between Louis O. Gelpi age twenty five years, (25 years) a native of Mississippi son of Pablo Gelpi and Rosa E. Viosca and Marie Octavie Couret (aged 22 years) a native of Louisiana daughter of [*] Louis Couret and L*] N[*]. The celebration of the marriage was performed in presence of the witnesses A. J. Forstall [Anatole J. Forstall], [*]."
The License was issued on the 29 day of April 1879 by Hon. John L. Loire[*] . . . Justice of the Peace in presence of the witnesses G. Gelpi and A. F. Forstall
License returned and filed, Book No. 5 Folio 314
Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, La.; 4 May 1874; v4; p436
Note: [*] The copy was not very good, the names were difficult to decipher.
Person ID I4846 Last Modified 23 Apr 2004
Father Jean Louis Couret
b. Abt 1817, Auzas, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France
d. Aug 1880, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana (Age 63 years) Mother Cidalise Normand
b. 20 Jun 1828, Louisiana
d. 6 May 1907, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 78 years) Marriage 24 Jun 1847 St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Spouse / Partner Louis Octave Oscar Gelpi
b. Abt 1849, Louisiana
Marriage 4 May 1874 New Orleans, Louisiana [1] 
Children2 daughters Family ID F3412 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Apr 2025
- This is their marriage certificate:
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Event Map 
Birth - 7 Aug 1852 - New Orleans, Louisiana 
Marriage - 4 May 1874 - New Orleans, Louisiana = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Histories 
Louisiana and Texas Family Mysteries The Louisiana branches (most, but not all, from New Orleans) have not historically been as well researched as families on this website from Maryland and New England. Asahel McLellan, whose family moved from the northeast to New Orleans, has a fairly well documented family. Research on the other families on the site—the Pitards, Gamards, Courets, Maupays, DeGranges, and the rest—has required some rewarding research.
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Reference Pitard, D. "Marie Octavie Couret". Genealogy at Pitard.net. https://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I4846&tree=1sttree (accessed April 29, 2025).
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