Reply #31: Hmmm... [View All]

[DatManFromNawlins]

Only one of my ancestors arrived in Louisiana after it was a state, and he was brought over specifically because there was a need for his teaching skills, being the son of a headmaster who was a son of a headmaster. He arrived here in 1853. The rest were French and German immigrants who arrived in the 1700s. Of the Germans, there were appx. 64 Germans who settled what is now known in Louisiana as the German Coast, mostly in what is today St. Charles, St. John, and St. James parishes. They were brought here by John Law's company, under the idea that they were going to be working and living in a tropical paradise. Out of the 400+ who boarded those boats, those 64 survived. Of the 64, I can trace my lineage back to 26 of them. The one German who wasn't on those boats had actually arrived earlier, his name was Michael Zeringue (Zeringher). He was brought to New Orleans by request of the King of France to supervise construction in the city, and was the master builder during the construction of the original St. Louis church. As for the other Frenchmen, they were exiled from Canada after the Treaty of Paris, and before there WAS a USA.