Jeanne Catherine de Gauvrit b. 25 Oct 1729 New Orleans, Louisiana d. 29 Sep 1773: Stewart

1729 - 1773 (43 years)

Name	Jeanne Catherine de Gauvrit
Born	25 Oct 1729	New Orleans, Louisiana
Christened	25 Oct 1729	St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana [1]
Gender	Female
Died	29 Sep 1773 [2]
Died	Age: 43
Buried	30 Sep 1773	New Orleans, Louisiana [3]
Person ID	I1108	Stewart
Last Modified	30 Jul 2026

Father	Captain Jean Baptiste Joachim de Gauvrit, b. Oleron, France , d. Aft 1759
Relationship	Birth
Mother	Jeanne Catherine Pierre, b. 1674, Gray, France , bur. 30 Sep 1773 (Age ~ 99 years)
Relationship	Birth
Married	05 Aug 1727	St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana [4, 5]
Family ID	F715	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Jean Baptiste Honoré Destrehan de Beaupré, b. 27 Jan 1716, Touraine, Department d’indie-et-Loire, Centre, Paris, France , d. 26 Feb 1765, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 49 years)

Married Bef 1746 [6]

Children

+	1. Jean Baptiste Honoré Destrehan de Beaupre, b. 09 Oct 1749, d. 05 Jun 1775 (Age 25 years) [Birth]
+	2. Jeanne Marguerite Marie Destrehan, b. 23 Mar 1751, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. 26 Sep 1814, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 63 years) [Birth]
+	3. Jeanne Marie Destrehan, b. 14 Nov 1753, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. Jun 1798, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 44 years) [Birth]
+	4. Marie Elizabeth Destrehan, b. 8 Feb 1755, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. 27 Mar 1817, Bayou Road, Louisiana (Age 62 years) [Birth]
	5. Jeanne Catherine Destrehan, b. Abt 1756, d. Aft 1773 (Age ~ 18 years) [Birth]
	6. Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan de Beaupré, b. 7 Feb 1758, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. Bef 09 Dec 1776 (Age 18 years) [Birth]
+	7. Jean Noël Destrehan de Tours, b. 12 Dec 1759, d. 9 Oct 1823, Destrehan Plantation, Destrehan, Louisiana (Age 63 years) [Birth]

Last Modified 7 Mar 2021

Family ID F345 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 25 Oct 1729 - New Orleans, Louisiana
	Christened - 25 Oct 1729 - St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana
	Buried - 30 Sep 1773 - New Orleans, Louisiana

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Documents

Genealogy of Jeanne Catherine Gauvry
Taken from St. Charles - Abstracts of Civil Court Records of St. Charles Parish, 1700-1803 by Glenn R. Conrad, 1974

Histories

Extract: Letter written to Miss Destrehan of Paris, sister of the deceased L. Destrehan, 19 Mar 1771
This letter was written to Marguerite Marie Destrehan of Paris by her sister in law, Jeanne Catherine de Gauvry, following the death of her brother in law, Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan. When Jeanne Catherin de Gauvry's husband, Jean Baptiste Honore Destrehan de Beaupré, died in 1765, her brother in law, Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan took over as guardian of the children (minors) and estate. (The children were being schooled back in France at the time.) Following his death, the Spanish Colonial govt tried to take possession of the estate. This letter details the workings of the Cabildo of the Spanish Government.

Notes

The books, To Reach Afar by Horace H. Harvey, Katherine Harvey Rogér, and completed by Louise Destrehan Rogér D'Oliveira and Legacy of Old Louisiana by Louise Destrehan Rogér D'Oliveira and Horace H. Harvey and Katherine Harvey Rogér, both have the same identical genealogy of the Destrehan family. Both list Jeanne Catherine de Gauvry, daughter of Captain Jean Baptiste de Gauvry and Jeanne Catherine Pierre but provide her birth as 1674 in France. However, this cannot be correct. Jean Baptiste de Gauvry and Jeanne Catherine Pierre didn't marry until 1727 and their daughter Jeanne Catherine de Gauvry was born in 1729 according to the New Orleans Sacramental Records. Unfortunately this has confused me for quite some time until coming to this conclusion that the year listed is erroneous. Similarly, her husband, Jean Baptiste Honore Destrehan de Beaupre's birth year may also be incorrectly listed as 1672. I believe that these are the birth years of Destrehan's parents, Jean Baptiste Destrehan (1672) and Marguerite du Saunoy of Paris (1674) which makes a lot more sense.

Name:

Jeanne Catherine de Gauvret
Jeanne Catherine de Gauvrit
Jeanne Catherine de Gauvry

Born:

Date of Birth assumed to be same day as baptism.

Died:

Notation in Baptism records for Jean Noel states she died Nov. 27, 1762

Sources

[S2] Archdiocese of N.O. Sacr. Rec. v01 (1718-1750), Earl C. Woods, (New Orleans, La. : Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987), F379 .N553 W66 1987 REF V.1., 69 (Reliability: 3).
Jeanne Catherine (Joachim and Catherine PIERRE),
baptized Oct. 25, 1729
(AN, B 1729, 103)
[S49] Old Families of Louisiana, Stanley Clisby Arthur, (Harmanson, 1931), 414.
[S4] Archdiocese of N.O. Sacr. Rec. v03 (1772-1783), Earl C. Woods, (New Orleans, La. : Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987), F379 .N553 W66 1987 REF V.3., 77 (Reliability: 3).
Madame [omitted] DE GAUVRY,
interred Sep. 30, 1773,
(SLC, F1, 26)

(may or may not be Catherine Pierre De Gauvry)
[S2] Archdiocese of N.O. Sacr. Rec. v01 (1718-1750), Earl C. Woods, (New Orleans, La. : Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987), F379 .N553 W66 1987 REF V.1., 69 (Reliability: 3).
DE GAUVRY [@DE GAUVERY] (cf. DE LESTRIER)
Joachim, captain of a naval reserve company, widower of Marieanne DE L'ESTRIER, dec. in this parish, married Catherine PIERRE, Aug. 5, 1727,
Witnesses: DE PERRIER, commandant general of this province, DE LA CHAISE, royal commissioner and first councillor of the Superior Council, LA BOULLAY [@DE LA BOULEE], the bride's beau-frere, DE LATOUR, officer in the troups of this province, DEROCHE (SLC, M1, 134)
[S2] Archdiocese of N.O. Sacr. Rec. v01 (1718-1750), Earl C. Woods, (New Orleans, La. : Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987), F379 .N553 W66 1987 REF V.1., 209 (Reliability: 3).
PIERRE
Catherine, Native of Besancon, widow of Justin Guerin, dec. in this parish, married Joachim DE GAUVERY [@GAUVRY], Aug. 5, 1727
(SLC, M1, 134)
[S205] To Reach Afar, Horace H. Harvey, Katherine Harvey Rogér, Louise Destrehan Rogér D'Oliveira, (Hercules Publishing Co., 1974), 19.
After the Company of the Indies was dissolved and Vaudreil was Governor he appointed Jean Baptiste Honore Destrehan de Beaupre in 1746 to be the Comptroller of the Colony. By then Destrehan had married Jeanne Catherine de Gauvret (Gauvry) daughter of Captain Jean Baptiste de Gauvret (Gauvry), an officer in Bienville's troops and Jeanne Catherine Pierre.