Erasie married Jean Stenville Melancon 1 Feb 1853, Saint Martinville, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States. Jean was born 10 Jul 1827, Saint Martinville, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States; died Deceased. [Group Sheet]

1. Marie Celeste Melancon was born 10 Sep 1854, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States; was christened , SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INDEX., LOUISIANA; died 6 Nov 1928, Breaux Bridge, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States.

Etienne married Marie Celeste Landry 20 Apr 1812, Saint James,Saint James,Louisianna. Marie (daughter of Valentin Landry and Celeste Bourgeois) was born 15 Mar 1794, St James, St James, Louisiana; died 4 Aug 1833, Saint Martinville, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States. [Group Sheet]

Pierre married Marie Anne Bergeron Marie was born About 1747, St Anne, Rivere St Jean, New Brunswick, Canada; died 3 Apr 1828, Saint James, St. James, Louisiana, United States; was buried 4 Apr 1828, Saint James, St. James, Louisiana, United States. [Group Sheet]

Valentin married Celeste Bourgeois 17 Nov 1792, Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana, United States. Celeste (daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Marie Josephe Madeleine Girouard) was born 22 Oct 1774, Cabanocey, St James Parish, Louisiana; was christened 22 Oct 1774, St. James,Louisiana; died 1 Mar 1816, La Grand Pointe, Cecilia, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States; was buried , St. Martinville, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Rene Landry is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 5 Left. Listed with him are 5 of his 8 children: Marin, Felicity, Olivier, Joseph and Firmin. [1]
Rene Landry was born in 1716 in Pisiguit, Acadia. He was the son of Abraham Landry and Marie Guilbeau. When he was 21, he married Marie Terriot, age 19, daughter of Jacques Terriot and the late Marguerite Leblanc 18 Feb 1737 at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia.[2]

He died in Jun 1781 in Ascension Parish, Louisiana and was buried 3 Jun 1781 Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish. [3]
Residence/Probate

Census: 7 Jul 1763 Oxford, Talbot, MD [4]
Census: 14 Sep 1769 Cabahannocer (Lower), St. James, LA [5]
Census: 1 Aug 1770 Ascension, LA [6]
Event: Land 5 Nov 1775 Ascension Parish [7]
Census: 23 Apr 1777 Donaldsonville, Ascension, LA [8]
Probate: 17 Jun 1781 Ascension, LA [9]
Marriage

Marriage 1 Marie Marguerite THERIOT 18 Feb 1737 in Grand Pré, Acadia [10]
Children
Pierre LANDRY b: Abt 1738 in Grand Pré
Marguerite LANDRY b: Abt 1742 in
Anne (Agnes) LANDRY b: Abt 1743 in Acadia
Marin LANDRY b: Abt 1748 in Pisiguit, Acadia
Felicite LANDRY b: Abt 1750 in Acadia
Olivier LANDRY b: Abt 1752 in Acadia
Joseph Rene (dit Dios) LANDRY b: Abt 1757 in Oxford, Talbot, MD
Firmin LANDRY b: Abt 1760 in Oxford, Talbot, MD
Marriage 2 Anne LANDRY Bef 14 Sep 1769 in LA
Children
Valentin LANDRY b: Aft 1 Aug 1770 in , , LA c: 15 Jan 1771 in St. James, St. James, LA
Pierre Jean Baptiste LANDRY b: 6 Feb 1773 in , Ascension, LA c: 7 Feb 1773 in Donaldsonville, Ascension, LA
Anne Appoline LANDRY b: Abt Jun 1776 in , Ascension, LA
Sources

? Title: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Author: Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; Personal Copy. p. 20
? Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) - 1869; Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869 (Image 711): http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1870/711?r=0&s=4
? Title: Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records; Author: Catholic Church; Vol 2, 1770-1803; Contains Baptismal, marriage and burial entries taken from some 46 registers housed in the Archives of the Diocese of Baton Rouge; Personal Copy; p. 447
Text: Rene LANDRY, age 64 years, buried 3 Jun 1781 at Ascension Catholic Church, Donaldsonville, LA (ASC-1, 184).
? Title: Acadian Exiles in the Colonies; Author: Janet Jehn; Publication: Covington, KY: Author, 1977; pp. 144 & 156
Text: 445
"Recensement des habitants Neutres de Lacadie détenus a Oxford, En Maryland" René Landry, Marie son epouse, Marg'te et Marin Landry, Felicité et Olivier Landry, Joseph et Firmin Landry .... 8
"Census of the Neutral Inhabitans [sic] of Acadia Detained at Oxford, in Maryland"
René LANDRY [three names omitted], Félicité and Olivier LANDRY, Joseph and :Firmin LANDRY.?
? Title: Cabanocey, Lillian C. Bourgeois; New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957; reprinted Pelican Publ., 1998. Personal copy; p. 178. Original in Archivo General de Indias, Papeles procedentes de Cuba, legajo 187A, folio 220-231.
Text: Left Bank, Mississippi River
140 René LANDRY, 53;
Anne LANDRY, wife, 37;
Joseph, son , 12;
Firmain, son, 9.
[The children are from his 1st marriage. Two other sons are on plots #138 and #139. Her children from 1st marriage are listed alone in household #147.]
? Source: #AJRO BLaF
? Title: Acadian Genealogy Exchange; Author: Jehn, Janet, ed.; vol. IV, no. 1 (Jan), p. 16; Source published by Karen Theriot, Rootweb.com
Text: Article "Spanish Land Grants to Acadian Exiles:"
Grantee René LANDRY, with property of 5 arpents on the left [east] bank of the Mississippi River, opposite Bayou Lafourche.
? Source: #AJRO BLaF :p. 5
Text: 55.
Rene LANDRY, 54, 6 arpents of land;
Anne LANDRY, 38;
Marin LANDRY, his son, 22, 4 arpents;
Olivier LANDRY, id, 17, 4 arpents;
Dios LANDRY, id, 12;
Firmain LANDRY, id, 10;
Firmain BROUSSART, his stepson, 19;
Jean BROUSSART, id, 10.
? Title: Ascension Parish, Louisiana, Civil Records, 1770-1804; Author: Eileen Larré Behrman, comp.; Publication: Conroe, TX: Author, 1986; p. 21
Text: Renee LANDRY died, and a sale began on 17 Jun 1781 of all movables followed an inventory made on the 7th & 8th of Jun 1781, at the request of the tutors of minor children of his 1st and 2nd marriages. Anne LANDRY, his 2nd wife, had been tutrice of the children, but "since then she has fallen entirely into madeness and has lost use of her good sense." Total amounted to 1,011 piastres & 7 escalin, to be divided among the interested parties.
Another inventory was done on 7 Jun 1787 (see pp. 919-950 of Book A), for the eight children of Renee LANDRY's 1st marriage to Marie THERIOT. Included were three slaves. Entire inventory amounted to 2,311 piastres 1 escalin.
? Title: Catholic Church Records, vol. 1a: Acadian Records, 1707-1748; Author: Diocese of Baton Rouge; Publication: Diocese, 1999. The Registers of St. Charles aux Mines in Acadia, from Grand Pré, carried into exile to St. Gabriel Church of Iberville, LA. Personal Copy; p. 186
Text: Rene LANDRY, age around 21, son of Abraham & Marie GUILEBOT of the parish of Assomption of the Virgin of Pigiguit, married 18 Feb 1737 Marie TERIOT, age around 19, daughter of Jaques & deceased Marie LEBLANC (consanguinity 4th degree). Witnesses: Joseph TERRIOT [signed]; Abraham LANDRY; Jacques TERRIOT [signed]; Jean TERRIOT [signed]; Jacques LEBLANC [signed]; Charles LANDRY; René LeBLANC [signed]; R. LEBLANC [signed]; Pierre LANDRY; groom & bride signed with X. (SGA-2, 198).
Source: AJRO BLaF Title: Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770-1798; Author: Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.? Publication: Harvey, LA: 1974. 2nd printing Hébert Publications, 1980; Personal Copy; General Census of the Habitants of Valenzuela of Lafourche, Two Thousand Sixty-four Persons; April 10, 1797; /s/ N, Verret; (Original: Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 215A)

Rene married Anne Landry. Anne (daughter of Abraham Landry and Marie-Isabelle Blanchard) was born abt. 1732, Pisiguit, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 29 Apr 1788, Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana; was buried 1789, Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana, United States. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Marie Josephe Madeleine Girouard 5 Nov 1759, Ristigouche, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada. Marie (daughter of Claude Girouard and Marie Madeleine Vincent) was born 1737, Pisiquit, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 15 Aug 1815, Carencro, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States; was buried 16 Aug 1815, Saint Martinville, St. Martin, Louisiana, United State. [Group Sheet]