Family: Nicolas Lauve / Catherine Pierre Couilleret (F374)

• Father | Male Nicolas Lauve

  
  

  Born	1 May 1731	New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  Died	22 Jan 1807	New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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  Married	7 Jun 1763  [1]	New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA  [1]
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  Mother | Female Catherine Pierre Couilleret

  
  

  Born	29 Nov 1749	Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, USA
  Died	Abt 1818	New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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  Child 1 | Male Nicolas Henri Lauve

  
  

  Born	11 Feb 1767	New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  Died	30 Mar 1826	New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  Buried		St Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  Spouse	Sophie Hollier | F47
  Married	7 Oct 1791	Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA

  
  

• Notes

  Married: St. Louis Cathedral Marriage Contract: Contract of Marriage (6 Jun 1763) By notarial act Sieur Nicolas LAUVE, shoemaker living in this town, son of the late Antoine Lauve and the late Marie Francoise Joumart his father and mother, widower in first nuptials of Elizabeth RACHAL, and a native of the town of New Orleans. & Demoiselle Catherine Pierre COUILLERET, minor daughter of deceased Pierre COUILLERET and of Catherine Laurandine, her father and mother, native of this town. The said Laurandine, her mother is here present and consents to the clauses and conditions set forth below. Relatives and friends here present are: On the part of Sieur LAUVE: Sieur Jean HISWARD, Captain of the Navy and merchant in this town, his brother-in-law, and Sieur Nicolas Lambert, merchant in this town, his friend. On the part of the Demoiselle Catherine Couilleret: Sieur Henry ROCHE, shoemaker in this town, her step-father and Sieur Antoine Catoire, merchant, her brother-in-law. Conditions: - Marriage to be solemnized in the Holy Roman Catholic Church. - Community of acquets and gains according to the custom of Paris. - Each responsible for debts contrated before marriage - Future wife brings to marriage the sum of 1,000 livres and what she may receive from the succession of her father and mother, of which 1/3 is to go to the community and the remaining 2/3 is to go to her children. - Future husband gives to future wife the sum of 500 livres as prefix dower secured by a mortgage on all his property, present and future. - Preciput - 250 livres - Option of wife to accept or renounce community. - Contracting parties make a deed of gift to the survivor. [Signatures, etc.] The original Lauve-Couilleret Marriage Contract is located at the Louisiana State Museum, Doc. 8397, P.69284-85-86-87.

  
  

• Sources

  [S438] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for Nicolas Louis Lauve.