Lorrain Family Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, business records, land records and tax bills and receipts (including one from the Confederacy), and succession records for members of the Lorrain family. Most of the correspondence is from family members who remained in France. It also includes maps, plans for a sawmill, and election certificates. Of special interest is a traiteur’s cure for worms. There is also a family genealogy drawn up many years later.
Dates
- 1832-1933
Biographical / Historical
Eugene Nicolas (1832-1891) and Jean Louis Desire Lorrain (1835-1892) were brothers, who were born in France and immigrated to Louisiana as young men in 1854. Both men bought land, first in Vermilion Parish and later farther west in what became Jefferson Davis Parish. Eugene operated a sailing vessel along the Louisiana coast, while Louis built a sawmill and general store near Hayes, Louisiana. The store also included a post office operated by Louis’ wife, Aureline. Eugene drowned January 7, 1891, while trying to cross the bar at the mouth of the Mermentau River in a storm. He never married and left no descendents. Louis married Aureline Trahan (1834-1932), and they had six children.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (Box 1 contains 25 folders; Box 2 contains 14 folders.)
2 Volumes (2 oversize photograph albums)
10 Sheets (6 oversize maps, 1 advertisement, 1 hand-drawn plan, 2 certificates)
Language of Materials
English
- Map of State of Louisiana. La. Bureau of Immigration, Wm. H. Harris, Commissioner. New Orleans, 1885.
- Title
- Lorrain Family. Papers, 1832-1933
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jean Kiesel
- Date
- 10/05/2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031
speccoll@louisiana.edu