Alexis Breau

• Sources:
  • "Acadian Immigrants to San Luìs de Natchez, 1768" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • In report of Acadians at Port Tobacco, Province of Maryland, Jul 1763, listed as Alexis Braux
    • In report on Acadians who settled at San Luìs de Natchez, 1768, listed as Alleci Bro, "new-comer," age 42
    • Cabanocé, La Luisiana census, 1769, listed as Alexis Breau, age 46
    • St.-Jacques, La Luisiana census, 1777, listed as Alexis Breau, age 52
    • St.-Jacques, La Luisiana census, 1779

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• Notes:
  • Exiled to Province of Maryland 1755, age 32
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana in Feb 1768, age 44
  • Depicted with brother Honoré in Dafford Mural, Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville

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Alexis was pronounced "Ah-lek-see", according to Gerald P. Breaux in A Breaux Family History. (Norma Lewis)

Gerald P. Breaux wrote on page 30 & page 31 from A Breaux Family History: "Alexis settled in Pisiquit after his marriage and apparently remained there until forcibly removed. He was married only 10 years before the fateful deportation, so that his married life was almost immediately affected by the turmoil that progressively developed......In my line of descent, Alexis and his family occupy a place of very special recognition. It was they who underwent the deportation expereience and the later migration to Louisiana."

(Copied by Norma Lewis from A Breaux Family History)

Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa insisted that they settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, far from other Acadian communities. The Breaus, who had relatives at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques and St.-Gabriel, refused to go to Natchez, but the governor would not relent. He threatened to deport Alexis, Honoré, and their families if they did not go where he told them to go. To escape the governor's wrath, Alexis and Honoré went into hiding while Spanish soldiers escorted the rest of their clan upriver to the isolated post; it took them an entire month, from February to March, to get there. In late 1769, after a revolt against Ulloa had ousted the unpopular governor, his successor, General Alejandro O'Reilly, allowed the Breaus and their families to settle where they wanted. None of them remained at Natchez. They moved to where their kinsmen had settled on the Acadian Coast, at St.-Jacques, Ascension, and San Gabriel, where they had wanted to go all along: