Susanna Laurens

1774 - 1856  (82 years)

• Name	Susanna Laurens
  Relationship	with Gustave Jean Baptiste Pitard
  Born	1774	Baradères, Saint-Domingue
  Gender	Female
  Died	7 Jan 1856	New Orleans, Louisiana   [1]
  vol. 17, page 312
  Notes	She was from Saint-Domingue. She most likely fled the slave revolts on the islands in the 1790s. Many of those fleeing went to Cuba, esp. to Santiago, where their daughter Isabel was born. Benjamin's baptismal certificate notes the parents' origins. The only person I can find who might be her in the 1850 census is the "widow Laurent," living in the 3rd Ward, 1st Municipality of New Orleans, but she is aged 39 (and born in Lousiana), not over 75.
  Person ID	I5016	lansdalepitard
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2021

  
  

  Spouse / Partner	Jean Mouchon           b. Abt 1765, ? Geneva or Lucerne, Switzerland           d. 29 May 1835, New Orleans, Louisiana  (Age ~ 70 years)
  Married	5 Aug 1797	New York State
  Children	+ 1. Paul Phoeneme Mouchon           b. Abt 1799, New York City, New York           d. 10 Feb 1856, New Orleans, Louisiana  (Age ~ 57 years) + 2. Isabella Narcisa Mouchon           b. 29 Oct 1803, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba           d. 24 Aug 1861, New Orleans, Louisiana  (Age 57 years)   3. Alexandre Manual Mouchon           b. Abt 1806           d. 14 Nov 1832, New Orleans, Louisiana  (Age ~ 26 years) 4. Benjamin Mouchon           b. Abt 1808           d. 31 Mar 1876, New Orleans, Louisiana  (Age ~ 68 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F3532	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Documents		Baptismal certificate for Isabel "Buison" I have transcribed and translated this in the "Degrange/McMillan Correspondence" (kept on the Louisiana Histories page). Isabel Narcisa "Buison" is here described as the daughter of Susanna "Laurren" and "Juan Buison." Later, however, this name appears regularly as "Mouchon." Why the name is different here is a mystery.
  		Death certificate for Suzanne Laurens (d. 1855) Transcription: " . . . on this day, to-wit the twelfth of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five . . . personally appeared Mrs. Antoine Lubue, Secretary of the Church Wardens of the Cathedral of St. Louis, residing in the City of New Orleans < >, on St. Anne Street, who hereby declares that Mrs. Jean Mouchon, born Suzanne Laurens, a native of Barades, Island of Santo Domingo, aged eighty two years, departed this life in a house situated on Thalie Streed, near Apollo, on the tenth of January of the present year (January 10th, 1855) at 9 O'Clock AM. . . "

  
  

• Reference

  Pitard, Derrick. "Susanna Laurens". Genealogy at Pitard.net. https://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I5016&tree=1sttree (accessed March 5, 2021).