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- The transcription of his marriage record in the New Orleans Archives says:
Juan Joseph (Lazaro and Clara Julien), gravely ill, native of Allos, Dioces of Marseilles in Provence, French Empire [Allos, dept. of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence], m. Maria Isavel Duquesnay, Jun. 5, 1807, w. Pedro Lefebre, Andres Vieux, Francisco Menard, and groom’s brother and sister in law (SLC, M6, 16) [ed. note: place of marriage not stated].
The record as it appears under DuQuesnay names Maria Isavel as “Widow Chantuq.” Lefebre, Vieux, and Menard were witnesses. The note from the editors of the NOLA Archives says that the parish is Allos, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département. In fact it is Allauch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allauch located near Marseille.
Maria Desiree (Desideria, Deseada, Desire) Fouque was married to Juan Vigneau on 4 Mar. 1793 in St. Louis Cathedral. She was said to be from “the quarter of la Fava tierra d’Alhaux in the Diocese of Marseilles, and Ana Cecilia Maisson, native of St. Martin Parish in Marseilles.” “Alhaux” sounds a lot like it is “Allauch.”
Aside from vital records, there may be more than one Joseph Fouque in New Orleans.
Joseph Fouque appears as the owner and seller of several properties in the Vieux Carré Digital Survey as early as 1788.
In 1805, "Joseph Fougue" appears in the New Orleans City Directory living at 21 Rue Royal South; this directory seems to be a census taken after the Louisiana Purchase.
His household has:
2 males over 16
3 males under 16
2 females over 16
2 females under 16;
no free persons of color;
1 male slave over 16
2 male slaves under 16
4 female slaves over 16
4 female slaves under 16
A "Wid. Fouque" appears in the 1810 census for New Orleans; household has 1 male 26-44, 1 female 16-25, and 2 slaves (if it is in fact the correct entry--the handwriting makes me unsure whether it's the right person). I'm not sure how this could be him or his wife, if it's the correct entry to begin with.
This entry appears in the 1811 New Orleans directory:
Fouque, Joseph . . . negociant, merchant . . . 21 Royale
A "Joseph Fouque" appears 131 times in the Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy database as a buyer and seller of slaves between 1807 and 1813 in New Orleans, though about four transactions appear earlier, in the 1790s. Many of the slaves are given an African tribe (Wolof, Mina, Makwa, Hausa, etc.) for "African Ethnicity." (The importation of slaves was banned in 1808; these may have been in the U.S. for a while, or come from the Caribbean, or be illegal late imports.)
He apparently attempted to start a large plantation, but failed; discussion of his problems the with project, and their causes, appears in Thomas Ingersoll, Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819 (Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1999): 276-79.
Many of the records took place on 8 Feb. 1813 with the seller as "Estate's (Deceased Master) Name: Fouque." The sugar planatation that was liquidated at his death. The newspaper Courier de la Louisiane lists a sale by his creditors on 29 March 1813 of "a very fine sugar plantation situated about three leagues above New Orleans on the right bank of the river purchased by the said Joseph Fouque from Mr. A Harang"; 58 slaves were to be sold. [3]
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