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From: "Judy Riffel" <>
Subject: Re: [LA-FRENCH-GERMAN] RE: [LA-FRENCH-GERMAN] Re: [LA-FRENCH-GERMAN] Lehmanns and DeVel les  in New Orleans in 1840s
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:57:11 -0500
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Dear Mr. Guidry:

I do not believe the Archives has any lists like this.

Judy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Velton P. Guidry" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 9:45 PM
Subject: [LA-FRENCH-GERMAN] RE: [LA-FRENCH-GERMAN] Re: [LA-FRENCH-GERMAN]
Lehmanns and DeVel les in New Orleans in 1840s


> MS.Judy Riffel do you have documents in the archive of the soldiers who
> came to protect the colony in those days. One of my ancestors Joseph
> Schweitzer was one of the soldiers who after his date of duty finished
> married a widow Marquerite Matherne.
>
> Velton Guidry,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judy Riffel [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:41 AM
> To:
> Subject: [LA-FRENCH-GERMAN] Re: [LA-FRENCH-GERMAN] Lehmanns and DeVel
> les in New Orleans in 1840s
>
> Their date is off. The first Acadians didn't arrive in Louisiana until
> 1764.
>
> Judy Riffel
> Baton Rouge, LA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [LA-FRENCH-GERMAN] Lehmanns and DeVel les in New Orleans
> in
> 1840s
>
>
>> Found this and thought I'd pass it on to those interested:
>>
>> In 1755, when the Acadians, better known as "Cajuns," arrived in
>> Louisiana,
>> GERMANS were here to greet them.
>> Germans, primarily from the Rhine River valley, were lured to the
> French
>> colony of Louisiana during the 1720's by officials promising fertile
> land
>> to
>> farm, a healthy climate, and an abundance of gold and silver to mine.
>> Believing
>> these wondrous tales of life in Louisiana, approximately 1,600 Germans
>> boarded ships and set sail from the French port of L'Orient. Only 300
>
>> survived
>> the journey and their first year in Louisiana.
>> The German-American Cultural Center interprets the contributions that
>> people
>> of Germanic descent have made to the Lower Mississippi River Delta and
>
>> the
>> unique cultural mix that is New Orleans.
>> GERMAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER _www.gacc-nola.com_
>> (http://www.gacc-nola.com) phone(504) 363-4290
>>
>>
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