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The Fayard Family
Francoise FISSEAU was the daughter of Nicolas FISSEAU and Mariea LaGARENNE or LEGARE. The marriage record is in Marriage Book A, pages 4y of the St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, and reads as follows:
"On May 4, 1722, after the publication of two banns between Nicolas Fiso, native of Paris, the' parish of St. Denis and Marianne Legare, native of Mastrick, parish of St. Antoine, and not having found any impediment, I, the undersigned, certify the two united together by the sacrament of marriage with the ordinary ceremonies of the Church in the presence of Antoine Barthelemy Legare, father of the girl, Francois Herinane, Jean Villars, Jean Christophe, Jean Philippe Laprairie, uncle of the girl, who made a mark only, declaring that they could not write to sign, with the exception ot Francois Herinane who signed with me."
Darguevans, Curate
Several children were born to this union: Francoise (b. I/2b, Volume II, Conrad, First Families of Louisiana), Marie Louise, Anne Marie, who died October !* 1728, at three years of age (Conrad, Vol. II, p. 120) and Anne Nicolle (BB 1, p. died September 17, 1731, six months old, Funeral Bk. 1, p. 70). The two known survivors, Francoise and Marie Louise would play a great part in the settlement of mor, areas of the Gulf Coast, particularly with the thousands of descendants that would fol > them. Marie Louise would marry Jean Baptiste LADNER, who, from all indications, a son of the original Christian LADNER and his wife, Marie Barbe COUNAL. Franco* would be ancestor to all the Fayards of the Gulf Coast.
Nicolas FISSEAU died about 1733 and did so intestate. As a consequence, his wife and her two daughters are the only legal heirs. As will be seen, French law will recognize the rights of each.
It was some time later that the widow FISSEAU, Marieanne LaGARENNE, married a-soldier named Pierre DeLORME, who apparently was stationed in New Orlec-because he seemed to be available for the suit proceedings that would take place begi-ning with the petition of Jean FAYARD, presented to the Council for his wife, on May 21, 174b. No marriage record exists, but this couple, Pierre DeLORME and Marieanr* LaGARENNE, probably were married in New Orleans and, in all probability/ moved*: the Gulf Coast area, where their children raised their families. In any event Pierre o'* Marieanne continued to live in the family home for a while.
Because of the fact that Marieanne continued to live in her first husband's home, and because his own wife, Francoise, was receiving nothing from her father's estate, Jean FAYARD (a spelling to be used from now on) went before the Superior Council for redress.
It was probably on his return to New Orleans, after the military stay in Na( toches, that a strong difference of opinion developed concerning the estate. Francois*