Natchitoches-Rapides-Evangeline County Louisiana Archives History .....
The Duplissey Family August 29 2004

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Bobby Duplissey Dup86@bellsouth.net August 29, 2004, 9:20 pm

The Duplissey Family has a very colorful history. It is said that the Duplissey
family were run out of France during the French Revolution.They had to leave or
be killed. They went to the island of St.Domingue (Haiti),Which was owned by
France. The area had large plantations with many slaves.Sometime in the 1790's
there was a slave uprising. The Duplissey family and many other white families
were forced off the island, when the slaves took over St. Domingue (Haiti).Many
people lost their lives during the uprising.

In old family history, passed down from generation to generation, it is said
that two Duplissey brothers and their mother left St.Domingue (Haiti)aboard a
ship. Some have said that it was Jean Laffite's ship.They landed somewhere on
the coast of Louisiana, possible in New Orleans. None of this has been
verified. I do know that they started conducting business in the year 1800 in
the parishes of Orleans, St. Charles, St.John Baptist,and Avoyelles.These two
brothers were Dominique Plessy and Francois Germain Plessy.Many years later,the
family name was changed to Duplissey.

Francois Germain Plessy,who was born about 1777, stayed in New Orleans until he
died in 1863.Dominique Plessy moved to Avoyelles parish about 1815.He married
Miss. Nancy Roe(Rowe)somewhere around 1816.They lived somewhere near
Marksville, Louisiana. In 1816 Dominique Plessy got a shipping license. He was
in partnership with Mr. Joseph Santos.Dominique had a farm and also bought and
sold land.Some family members have said that Dominique owned a flour mill in
Cottonport, Louisiana.Dominique always signed his name as D.Plessy. He never
wrote out his full name.Possibly some family members saw this some years later
and changed the spelling of our family name.

Dominique Plessy and Nancy Roe(Rowe)had three boys.They were Adolphus,Germain,
and Dominique Jr. Somehow, Germain Plessy's name got changed to Jeremiah
Duplissey when he was a small child.

Dominique Plessy died by accident in Avoyelles Parish somewhere between November
17, 1820 and March 17, 1821. He cut his femoral artery on a saddle-dirk(knife)
while getting down from his horse and bled to death.A saddle-dirk was a large
knife that some people carried strapped to the horn of their saddle.He was
between 40 and 45 years old.A short time later his son,Dominique Jr.,died while
he was still a baby.The widow moved the two remaining sons to the wilds of
Natchitoches Parish.They lived in a part of Natchitoches Parish that later
became Winn Parish.She had a brother living in this unsettled Parish.

Adolphus and his brother, Jeremiah Duplissey grew up and married in
Natchitoches Parish. They married sisters. Adolphus Duplissey married in 1837
to Matilda Ann Franks. Jeremiah Duplissey married in 1841 to Rachel Franks.They
both had large families. In the 1870's until the 1880's some of these families
started moving to central Louisiana. Some moved to Lamourie, Lecompte,Lloyd
Bridge, Forest Hill,Cheneyville,and Martin Springs in Rapides Parish.Some
stayed in North Louisiana. Some moved just across the rapides Parish line to
Evangeline Parish(back then it was still St. Landry Parish).They lived on the
east side of Cocodrie Lake. Today that area is known as
Clearwater,Louisiana.One family lived near Lonepine,Louisiana in Evangeline
Parish.They lived by the Cocodrie Bayou.This was Jeremiah (Jerry)Duplissey and
his wife Louisiana Jane Walker Duplissey.He had moved there from Lloyd Bridge
in Rapides Parish where he was a Constable for several years.He was the son of
Adolphus Duplissey and Matilda Ann Franks.Jerry was a farmer.

The Duplissey Family is now scattered all over the world. Some still live in
Louisiana. They live in Monroe, Alexandria area,Cheneyville area,Glenmora,Lake
Charles,Baton Rouge,and New Orleans,Louisiana.



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