BORDELON Hoot

Gabriel Laurent BORDELON, the first Bordelon in Louisiana, was born at LaHarve, France, on October 25, 1696. He was the son of Jean Baptiste Thomas Bordelon and Magdeleine de Branchon.

Jean Baptiste was "controlleur de vivres de la Marine" at the Port of LaHarve. The term "vivres" refers to supplies, subsistence, and commissary functions of the Navy.

Gabriel Laurent was married at St. Louis Parish, New Orleans, on February 20, 1730, to Anne Francoise Roland. In the record of his marriage, Laurent is described as an employee of the Company of the Indies.

Anne Francoise was a native of St. Germain l'Aurerois Parish, Paris, France. In the marriage record, she names her parents as Jean Baaptiste Roland and Jeanne Bonnet. Anne came to Louisiana from France in 1719 on the vessel "Mutine".

At the time of her marriage to Laurent, she was a widow and mother of three sons. Apparently Laurent and his wife went from New Orleans to the Natchez Post shortly after their marriage as their first son, Nicholas, was born there in the late 1730's. Their second child, Antoine, was born in New Orleans in 1733, indicating a return to New Orleans by the family.

Laurent died prior to 1737, when his widow married at Pointe Coupee on February 27, 1737.

The two Bordelon brothers, Nicholas and Antoine, age 15 and 12, were shown in the household of their stepfather and mother in the Pointe Coupee census of 1745.

Nicholas Bordelon, born in 1730, married at Pointe Coupee on June 2, 1753, Adrienne Rondot, daughter of Jean Rondot and Marie Colon. The Rondots were natives of France, Marie Colon a native of Dauphine, Diocese of Genoble. Of this marriage of Nicholas and Adrienne, there were several children, all born at Pointe Coupee.

Nicholas died at Pointe Coupee Post on September 8, 1769. His widow and her minor children with two older daughters, who were married to Roy brothers, moved to and settled at the Opelousas Post.

Adrienne Rondot Bordelon died at Opelousas on January 8, 1808. The influence of Nicholas Bordelon I on Avoyelles history and genealogy was through three of his children, two daughters married Mayeaux brothers who moved to the Avoyelles Post as early as 1783.

Three children of Nicholas II also moved to Avoyelles.

However, the Bordelon name was passed on in Avoyelles by Antoine Bordelon, second son of Laurent Bordelon and Anne Francoise Roland.

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