Through the years the family name has undergone many changes. What started out as "Perioux" on the rolls of the French army became Perilloux, Periou, Perrilloux, Perrillioux and other variations. One family in St. Martin Parish still uses the original "Perioux." I have used the spellings as they were found in various legal, church and family documents.
One of the early families to settle at the German Coast
of Louisiana was the PERILLOUX family. This family is French in origin, the
progenitor, Jacques, having come to Louisiana as a French soldier. He was
a native of the village of Soual in the Department of Tarn, France, and the
son of JEAN PERIOUX (the name was spelled various ways in the early documents)
and JEANNE MARTIN.
The date of his arrival in Louisiana is unknown, but
on 1 June 1754 at his discharge from the military he chose to remain in
Louisiana. He had married on 8 May 1753 at the Church of St. Charles des
Allemands to ANNE BARBAY, the daughter of LOUIS BARBAY and MARGUERITE GOTOLAIS.
Louis Barbay was also a French soldier who remained in Louisiana after
his discharge. He petitioned the Governor for passage from France for his
wife and children and they arrived in 1748. Anne Barbay arrived at
this time with the rest of the family.
The records of the German Coast show that JACQUES PERILLOUX,
on 6 March 1762, obtained title to a farm on the east bank of the Mississippi
River in what is now the town of Laplace in St. John the Baptist Parish.
He had previously lived in St. Charles Parish. The June 1766 Census
of St. John Parish shows him as the owner of several farm animals. The
1770 Census shows that he produced corn and rice on his farm. Jacques
Perilloux raised his family on this farm and spent his remaining years there.
Jacques died in St. John Parish on 24 September 1771. Anne Barbay
died 26 November 1817 and was buried in Edgard.
General Roll of Louisiana Troops 1720-1770 |
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My Own Line
by John Sheldon Perilloux
On 8 May 1753 Jacques Perioux, a soldier in the French
Army, and Anne Barbay, both natives of France, were wed at the Church of
St. Charles des Allemands in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, in or near the
present-day community of Killona. Anne was the daughter of Louis Barbay,
a French Army soldier who had been in Louisiana as early as 1745 and perhaps
earlier.
Leonard Perilloux, son of Jacques Perioux, married Veronique
Tregre in the St. John the Baptist Church in Edgard, LA on 20 Aug 1775.
Veronique was the daughter of Andreas Draegar of Donaller, Bavaria. Andreas,
one of the original settlers in St. Charles Parish, had been in the Old Village
on the German Coast (near present-day Killona, Louisiana) since
1722.
On 11 Feb 1835, Louis Zepherin Perilloux, my
great-grandfather, grandson of Jacques Perioux, married Marie Honorine Rodrigue,
a descendant of João Rodrigues and Suzanna da Cruz of Lisbon,
Portugal.
On 6 Jun 1835, Michel Cambre, my great-great-grandfather
and a descendant of Michel Kammer of Briesgau in Germany, wed Marie Aimée
Bacas, a descendant of Jean Baptiste Manuel Bacas of Genoa, Italy. Did Jean
Bacas begin life as Giovanni Baca? I'm assuming he did.
Louis Nicaise Madere, my great-grandfather, married Emarante Froisy on 25
Jul 1846.
On 26 Aug 1913, Zephirin Louis Perilloux, my father, grandson of Louis Nicaise
Madere, wed Vivian Marie Cambre, daughter of Charles Francois Cambre and
Ernestine Eve Vicknair, making me related to 95% of the white people in St.
John the Baptist Parish on the day I was born.
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