Jean Christophe Haydel

Other Events:

• Residence: 1784, German Coast, Louisiana, USA

Notes:

Evergreen Plantation

The important plantation houses on adjacent plantations in St. John the Baptist Parish now known as Evergreen and Whitney originally were identical houses built probably at the same time by two brothers, Christophe and Jean Jacques Haydel, sons of Ambroise Haydel. Their grandmother, the widow of Jean Adam Heidel, had, with two sons, arrived at Biloxi on the ship La Charente in 1721. One of these sons, Ambroise Haydel, had been born about 1702 in Newkirchen, and in 1724 was living on the Louisiana German Coast in the village of Hoffen.

The house that is now Whitney was probably built by Jean Jacques Haydel and Evergreen by his brother Chrisophe in the 1780s or '90s. Christophe's daughter Magdelaine, the widow of Pierre Antoine Becnel, acquired full ownership of the plantation in 1801 from her sister Françoise, wife of Pierre Marmillon. One of Magdelaine's sons, Drozin, and his wife both died of smallpox in 1804, leaving their son Pierre Clidamant Becnel in his grandmother's care. On her death in 1830, Pierre Clidamant gained full ownership of the plantation by purchasing the interest of the other of his grandmother's heirs.

Reference: Samuel Jr. Wilson, "The Building Contract for Evergreen Plantation, 1832", Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Vol. 31, No. 4 (Winter, 1990): pages 399-406.

Residence:
Listed in 1784 census of the Second Coast of the Germans, with wife Charlote Ouvre, no children; living with Jorge Haydelle and Marguerite Bossie.

Jean married Charlotte Huber on 21 Feb 1751/52 in St Charles, Louisiana, USA. Charlotte (daughter of Jean Huber and Anne Reusch) was born about 1736 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA; died on 6 Jul 1800 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Jean Georges Haydel was born on 14 Feb 1753 in German Coast, Louisiana, USA; died about 1813 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA.
3. Magdelaine Marie Haydel was born on 17 Oct 1754 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA; died on 3 Feb 1830; was buried in St Louis Cemetery #2, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
4. Francoise Haydel was born on 8 Aug 1757 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA; died on 25 Apr 1847 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA.
5. Michel Haydel was born in 1776 in St James, Louisiana, USA.

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• Baptism: 15 Nov 1702, Neunkirchen, Mayence, Germany
• Residence: 12 Nov 1724, German Coast, Louisiana, USA; Village of Hoffen

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Name:
Sometimes Aydelle, Hedelle, Haydelle, Etdelle, and now Haydel.

Residence:
Ambros Heidel (Haydel), of Neukirchen, electorate of Mayence. Catholic; 22 years old. Baker. His wife; his brother, 18 years old; his brother-in-law, aged 13, crippled. One and a half year on the place. "Good worker, very much at ease." One pig.

Ambros married Anna Margarethe Schaf before 1720 in Germany. Anna (daughter of Jacob Schaf and Anna Maria Foltzlouer) was born about 1706 in Schoenenbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 10 Dec 1778 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA; was buried in St John the Baptist Catholic Church Cemetery, Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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May 31, 1774, sold a farm to Louis Girard Pellerin (Les Voyagers XVI, 1995," 117)

Johann married Eva Anna Schnarberg in 1701 in Germany. Eva was born about 1680 in Neunkirchen, Saarland, Germany; died in 1724 in Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arrived in French Colonial Louisiana via Biloxi in 1721 via the ship La Charent from France.

Other Events:

• Emigration: 24 Jan 1721; On the pest ship "La Garonne"

Notes:

The Schaaf family, made up of the parents and six children left for Louisiana in December 1720 aboard the ship La Garonne. By January 1721, the ship's passengers were showing signs of an epidemic and docked at Brest, France to take refuge. The ship left Brest on February 27, 1721 and arrived at Saint Domingue (where the ships normally stopped enroute to Louisiana to pick up trade goods bound for Louisiana) where it was captured on April 30, 1731 by a pirate ship called La Gaillarde. The ship's passengers were rescued by the governor of Saint Dominque and brought to Cap Francois on July 19, 1721. During the journey, the German immigrants had experienced the effects of one of the worst epidemics in recorded history (300 Germans were sick), and after the attack by pirates, there were only 50 survivors. When the Schaaf family disembarked in Louisiana, the Schaaf parents had died, the survivors found that the Company of the Indies had gone bankrupt so that they had no land to settle, and they were literally stranded. Although the German population had little influence on the culture of Louisiana, many inhabitants of St Charles Parish still carry gallicized version of the original German surnames, such as Schexnaydre, Folse, and Oubre. The Schaaf family would be known as Chauff and, on one occasion, Mouton. One town name, "Des Allemands", is a modern reminder of the town's origin.

Name:
Sometimes Chauff, Cuave, Cheauf, Chof, Chofe, Choff, Chaaf, Soff, Shoff, Skoff, Shaw, Chaaf, and now Chauffe.

Jacob married Anna Maria Foltzlouer. Anna (daughter of Jacob Foltzlouer) was born in 1685 in Germany; died about 1724 in Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Perished on the ship "La Garonne" after departure from Brest, France between the 10th and the 27th of February 1721.

Hans married Marie Lisbild in 1680 in Friedrichsort, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Marie was born in 1663 in Friedrichsort, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; died in 1721. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Perished on the ship "La Garonne" after departure from Brest, France between the 10th and the 27th of February 1721.

Notes:

Same as Foltz (now Folse)?