The Cane River Trading Company, Inc.
2250 Highway 484
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Genealogy
Metoyer Descendents
Auguste Metoyer, son of Nicolas Augustin Metoyer, with his wife and first cousin Marie Agnes Poissot. They are the grandchildren of Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer and Marie Thérèze CoinCoin.
Nicolas Augustin Metoyer
The Carroll Jones Branch
J. Carroll Jones came to Rapides Parish from Sumner County Tennessee at age 7. He married Catherine Clifton in Rapides Parish and they were the parents of sixteen children.Catherine Clifton
Catherine Clifton was reportedly born in Cotile Pine Woods, Louisiana. She is the daughter of Daniel and Rachel Clifton. She lived in the Clifton Settlement Community, Rapides Parish, Louisiana before moving to Isle Brevelle with her husband Carroll Jones and their children.August Delphin
August Delphin was born in 1849 to Joseph Delphin and Rosalie Gasparite LaCour. In 1876 he married Maria Louise Jones, daughter of Carroll Jones and Catherine Clifton.The Marco Givanovich Branch
Marco Givanovich ( - 1896) was the father of Marie Givanovich, the wife of Marco Marinovich. Marco Givanovich along with his uncle Nicola Gratia were born in the village of ‘Prozura on the island of Mljet – just off the Dalmatian coast from the port city of Dubrovnik in Croatia…which was known as Ragusa in the nineteeth century. At that time, Dalmatia was a province of Austria in the old Austria-Hungarian Empire'.1
Marie's mother was of mixed Creole heritage.
1. Dollar, Susan E., The Freedmen’s Bureau of Schools of Natchitoches Parish: 1865-1868. Louisiana: Northwestern State University Press, 1998. Additional references are the Cammie Henry, Notes, p.107, Scrapbook #70, Melrose Collection located at the Cammie Henry Research Center, Northwestern State University, Watson Library.
The Beaudoin Branch
Reno Beaudoin (1847-1939) and Wife
This will link you to some additional Jones genealogy.
This will link you to additional Metoyer genealogy
This will link you to additional Beaudoin genealogy.
We are still under construction. More links will be added.
Books titled, Cane River Genealogy are part of the collection at the Watson Library of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. There are seven Cane River families represented as well as Clifton Choctaw Chronology, Clifton Cemetery Listings, St. Augustine Cemetery Listings, St. Augustine Church documents, Church subscriptions, circa 1920, and more. The Metoyer genealogy alone includes over 400 pages.
These books are in two volumes and are over 844 pages including a 92 page index. The older edition is also included in the library collection at the
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, Georgia.
You are welcome to add to these genealogical databases by e-mailing: NY5KMagi@aol.com
The Cane River Creole colony began in Natchitoches, Louisiana in 1768 with the birth of twins Nicolas Augustin Metoyer and his sister Marie Suzanne Metoyer.
Augustin Metoyer
né le 22 Janr 1768
decéde le 19 Dec 1856
et son espouse
Marie Agnes
décedée le 7 Juillet 1839
a L áge de 70 ans
Other families added to the colony either through marriage or as separate couples thus names such as Airhart, Anty(ee), Aguillard, Balthazar, Bayone / Bayonne / Byoune, Beaudoin, Beize, Bellow, Brossett, Chelette, Chevalier, Christophe, Clifton, Cloutier, Colson, Conant, Couty(ee), Curry, Cyriaque, Delphin, Dubriel, Dupré(e), Gallien / Gallion, Gauthier, Goudeau, Guidry, Hebert, Holloway, Ives, Jones, Kirkland, Kochinsky, LaCour, LaCaze, LeGras, Llorence/Llorens, LeMelle, Marinovich, Moran, Mullone, Metoyer, Meziere, Monette / Monet, Neal, Prudhomme, Rachal, Raggio, Robeaux, Roque, Rocques, Sarpy, Severin, Sylvie / Sylvia, St. Ville, Sers, Terrell, Tyler, Ray, Warburg, and Wilson.
2250 Highway 484
Melrose, LA 71456
United States
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