Louisiana, Jefferson Parish, Judicial District Court, Probate dockets. 1845-1862 Submitted by Rita Curry-Pittman, January 2004 Submitted: Jan. 2004 * ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** In the order as viewed on LDS microfilm created from original dockets, Gretna, LA, 1965. Films are available at the Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library and Main New Orleans Public Library. Dckt is Docket; Plaintiff is the deceased; the Defendant or Petitioner filed the succession JDC is Judicial District Court; LDS # is Latter Day Saints roll number. JPL is Jefferson Parish Library one or two digit roll number; D. O. D. is Date of Death. Page refers to a printout provided by the court as an index. Copies are available at J P East Bank Regional Library. T = Type of docket, S = Succession, C = Civil suit, M = Misc., I = Interdiction (to claim insane or unfit), E = Emancipation of a youth or of a slave film edge indicates a number found along the top edge of the microfilm. These are not always easily read. Most "cover dates" are from docket covers, others are from various documents indicating a date in court. The Cities of Lafayette, Carrollton & Jefferson, Faubourgs & part of McDonoghville (Algiers) are now in New Orleans. Freetown was part of McDonoghville. Part of McDonoghville and all of Mechanickham are now part of Gretna. The "Town of Brooklyn" is now part of Gretna but there were other west bank areas called Brooklyn without "town" mentioned. Dckt Plaintiff T Cover date JDC LDS # Page JPL DOD Residence Slave(s) fpc film edge 365 Warren, John B. S 08/05/1846 3rd 04025723934871 257 12 08/14/1845 Carrollton -- -- widow, Joanna K. 372 Landry, Justin S 09/29/1848 3rd 04025723934871 138 12 -- -- -- -- -- 385 Trudeau, Rene S 09/14/1846 3rd 04025723934871 239 12 08/25/1846 -- yes -- Widow, Emily; two covers 392 Bellow, John, Sr. S 01/30/1857 3rd 04025723934871 13 12 09/09/1850 -- -- -- 4350 Bellow, John, Sr. S 01/20/1851 5th 04025723934871 13 12 -- -- -- -- Died in San Francisco; some children live in California, others in Louisiana. Children; Lewis, John Jr., Joseph, Michel, Amelia, Henry & Ferdinand Bellow and Elizabeth Curry. Owned property in various parts of LA and Texas; A copy of docket 4350 (5th JDC) is within docket 392. 393A Ricker, Samuel S 01/09/1852 3rd 04025723934871 202 12 -- -- yes -- 393A Beale, Eliza S 02/07/1848 3rd 04025723934871 13 12 -- -- -- -- 393A Probst, Maria Sophia S 02/09/1848 3rd 04025723934871 187 12 11/13/1847 -- -- -- Wife 1, Eliza Beale. Two children by Eliza. 1) Clemence Octavia Eliza Ricker wed Joseph I. Gauterez; 2)Lemtine Celeste Eliza Ricker. Wife 2, Maria Probst; son, Samuel Ricker. Samuel's uncle, Philip de Grandpre. Eliza's g-dad, Thomas Beale; land in Freeport, LA. NOTE: Freeport was a section within the old City of Lafayette, now part of New Orleans. 395 Arnoult, Cryille S 06/27/1848 3rd 04025723934871 2 12 02/05/1845 LaCourse yes 50 yes Eugenie Salomie, Catherine Celeste Beaumont, Rose Hermine Halphen, Pierre Gervais & Louis Delille Arnoult; Jules & Victor Benit; James & Pierre Soniat Dufossat, Edward Guillotte, Alex Willis, Jean, Jules, Theodule Arnoult. Age 55. very long uses 1/2 roll; four folio covers. Apparently all were free persons of color. Eulalie Mandeville; Catherine Celeste Beaumont is a wife of Pierre Gravois Arnoult; At 000688 on film edge is a map of Fauburg Plaisance, part of the old City of Lafayette. 395 Arnoult, Pierre Gervais S 01/27/1840 3rd 04025723934871 2 12 10/26/1839 -- -- -- See Arnoult, Cyrille. 395 Arnoult, Cyrille (senior) S 06/14/1832 1st 04025723934871 2 12 -- -- -- -- See Arnoult, Cyrille. 395 Beaumont, Catherine Celeste S 05/07/1831 3rd 04025723934871 2 12 03/26/1831 -- -- -- See Arnoult, Cyrille. 416 Bunch, Melinda S 08/12/1850 3rd 04025723934871 14 12 08/20/1842 Gretna yes yes age 35; petitioner, Cornelius Goorich; docket forwarded to 3rd JDC from 1st JDC 418 Baker, Charles S 04/16/1853 3rd 04025723934871 12 12 04/30/1849 Gretna -- -- Died in Gretna; widow, Ellen Willman later wed Samuel Purseglove; children, Charles, Ellen, Sophia, Adelaide Baker. Lived on 4th between Lafayette street & Mechanicham line. 419 Barre, Bertrand S 04/13/1850 3rd 04025723934871 13 12 Jeff. City yes -- petitioner F. J. Laizer; widow, Emma Toledano then wed Raphael Beauvais; resided in Jefferson City, Fauburg Plaisans on Toledano at Denis street. He died in April in Biloxi, MS (apparently in 1850). Slaves; Louise 33, Gabriel 60, Clemence 32