Marriage Record of Eugene Beaurepaire and Marie Jeanne Daniel

ID: 4683 ~ Source: Ancestry.com. New Orleans, Louisiana, Marriage Records Index, 1831-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002.

Original data: State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Division of Archives, Records Management, and History. Vital Records Indices. Baton Rouge, LA, USA. ~ Date: December 29th, 1870

This file appears in: The Beaurepaire Family: Freedom to Slavery and Back Again

The marriage record of Eugene Beaurepaire and Marie Jeanne Daniel. After being freed himself, Eugene purchased Marie Jeanne from his former owners as an enslaved individual. After the Civil War they were married two days before his death, likely to ensure her ability to inherit his estate.

This file appears in: The Beaurepaire Family: Freedom to Slavery and Back Again

The Beaurepaire Family: Freedom to Slavery and Back Again

By Kate Mason & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

The house today marked 727-729 Burgundy Street, relatively unchanged since the early 1800s, has a history that reflects the tricky navigation of enslavement and freedom by a family called the Beaurepaires. On August 25, 1828, Louis Beaurepaire, a…