Pierre Landreneau (abt. 1726 - aft. 1771)

Biography

Pierre Landreneau, son of Francois Landerneau and Jeanne Janette. was born in Louisiana about 1726. At age 19, he was a hired hand on the farm of Joseph Roy, dit Chatellereau in Pointe Coupée, Louisiana.^[1]

Pierre (25) married Anne Marie Boltz (17) (born about 1734 in St. Charles, Louisiana, New France; daughter of Daniel Bopff and Anne Marie Werich) on February 14, 1752 by the priest of Saint Francis Church in Pointe Coupée, Louisiana.^[2] Their known children were:

• Unnamed Infant Landreneau (b/d 1752) twin sons
• Unnamed Infant Landreneau (b/d 1752)
• Jean Pierre Landerneau (1755–1818)
• Marguerite Landreneau (1765– )
• Joseph Landreneau (1770–<1828)

Pierre died in Louisiana at an unknown date. He and his wife are both named on the marriage records of their children as late as 1789 without being noted as deceased, but that doesn't necessarily mean they were still living.

Sources

1. ↑ Cathy Lemoine Sturgell, "1745 Census of Pointe Coupee," My Louisiana Lineage: Including Early Pointe Coupée & Avoyelles Colonists and their roots in Canada, France, Germany..., website accessed 8 May 2025;

   • Piere LANDERNEAU, engagé [of Joseph Roy], 19.

2. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records: Pointe Coupée Records, 1722-1769, Vol.1b (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, 2002), p.101; LANDERNAU, sometimes LANDERNEAU, LANDRENAU

See also:

• Genealogical Register, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Sept 1960), "Spanish Census of Pointe Coupee -1766," p. 33.