Anne Monique GUIDRY BREAUX
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"In early 1768, two Guédry families, one led by a widow, both related, came from Port Tobacco, Maryland, with the large extended family led by brothers Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit. Spanish governor Ulloa forced them to settle at Fort San Luis de Natchez, far upriver, across from present-day Natchez, Mississippi, where they did not want to go. A colonial revolt ousted Ulloa in late 1768, and his successor, General Alejandro O'Reilly, released the Acadians from Natchez in 1769. The Guédrys moved downriver to Ascension, between St.Jacques and St.Gabriel, but not all of them remained there:

Anne-Madeleine Dupuis, age 35, widow of Jean Guédry, came with five children - Firmin, age 16, Madeleine, age 14, Anne-Monique, called Monique, age 8, Jean-Baptiste, age 7, and Élisabeth, or Isabelle, age 3. Anne-Madeleine, son Firmin, and her daughters remained on the river, but in the 1780s Jean-Baptiste joined his uncle Pierre on the western prairies. Meanwhile, Monique married into the Breaux family and settled in what became Iberville Parish, where she died a widow in April 1842, in her early 80s. Madeleine and Élisabeth may not have married.

Pierre Guédry of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, age 26, younger brother of Joseph and Ursule and brother-in-law of Anne-Madeleine Dupuis, came with wife Marguerite Dupuis, age 3. Marguerite died soon after they reached the colony, and Pierre remarried to a fellow Acadian at San Luis de Natchez. After Governor-General O'Reilly let them go, Pierre and his new wife also went to Ascencion, but they did not remain there. In the eary 1770s, they follwed his sister Ursule to the Opelousas District and established a western branch of the family..."

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