Two original place statements still conflict
The inspected 1724 Louisiana census calls Joseph, 23, a Roman Catholic farmer and a native of Schwobse in Upper Alsace. Modern Schwobsheim is a probable interpretation of that word. The already known 1720 Phalsbourg record instead places his origin near Fort-Louis, with Augenem/Auenheim a qualified reading. The newer image strengthens one source statement without resolving the conflict or proving a baptism.
A baptism still to locate
Targeted register and catalog checks did not identify Joseph’s baptism. Checked local series and selected images do not exhaust nearby parish or annex holdings.
Evidence:
Indexes point to articles
Les Voyageurs and Terrebonne Life Lines indexes offer precise retrieval targets. An indexed shared page is not proof that two names are related; the full article and its underlying sources still need to be read.
Evidence:
The household comes into focus
The 1724 narrative names an unnamed wife and describes about eleven barrels of rice and two years occupying the plot; it does not state an arrival date. Two copies of the July 1727 census show the probable household with one unnamed child and three pigs. The 1731 original records three unnamed children, one woman in a category combining wives and marriageable daughters, two enslaved people, three horned livestock and a firearm. None of these children is named Louis. Household counts cannot establish a complete biological family.
INSPECT THE EVIDENCE
The recovered original pages
Sources & further reading
- PHAL1720Phalsbourg church act: Joseph and Anne Barbe, 1720
Original archive register image
Open source - ORIGINHISTRountzenheim–Auenheim: local history
Institutional catalog/geography metadata
Open source - VOYINDEXLes Voyageurs: W surname index
Institutional/publisher metadata only; underlying target not inspected
Open source - TLLINDEXTerrebonne Life Lines: index portal
Publisher metadata or compiled journal index; not family-event evidence
Open source - WU.1724.NARROriginal German Coast census narrative, 1724
Photographic image of contemporary 1724 census; relevant passage individually read
12 November 1724, COLG1464, F-804; LAC2319138/NewFrance31242, image23/29, entry 55
Open source - WU.SCHWOBSEHistorical locality reference for Schwobse
Modernlocalcantonplace-nameaccount, notfamilyrecord
Schwobsheim (Schwobse), INSEE67461
Open source - WU.1727.COPIESTwo archival copies of the 1727 census
Officialcatalogandlaterarchivalcopiesof 1 July 1727 census
COLG1464/4p, CABAC_PIAF_6940,32images; C-10206/574,604,608,633; LAC2319144
Open source - WU.1731.CENSUSOriginal Louisiana census, Joseph’s household, 1731
Photographic image of contemporary 1731 census; Josephrow/headerindividuallyread
NewFrance31249, COLG1464/12p, CABAC_PIAF_6941; LAC2319145, image9/12
Open source