Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan de Tour

1714 - 1771  (56 years)

• Name	Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan de Tour
  Born	6 Jul 1714	Paris, France   [1]
  Christened	8 Jul 1714	Parish of Saint-Eustache, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	09 Mar 1771	New Orleans, Louisiana   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I1186	Stewart
  Last Modified	3 Aug 2026

  
  

  Father	Jean Baptiste Destrehan,   b. France
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Marguerite du Saunoy,   b. France
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F379	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 6 Jul 1714 - Paris, France Died - 09 Mar 1771 - New Orleans, Louisiana  = Link to Google Earth
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• Documents		Notice of death of Jean Bapiste Louis Destréhan Destréhan (Jean Baptiste Louis) Trèsorier particuliere ô la Nouvelle Orlèans (Louisiane) Mort dans cette ville, le 9 Mars 1771 1764-1777
  		Baptismal Certificate for Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan, 6 Jul 1714 French transcription via Grok AI **Paroisse St Eustache.** L’an mil sept cent quatorze, le huit juillet, fut baptisé **Jean Baptiste Louis** né du six du sus dit mois, fils de **Jean Baptiste Destrehan**, écuyer, trésorier des gages des corps et communautés des marchands à bourses communes de la ville de Paris, et de dame **Marguerite Du Saussay** son épouse, demeurants rue des Petits Champs. Le parrain **Louis Raphaël Destrehan**, écuyer, son fils ; la marraine demoiselle **Catherine Parent**, fille de défunt Messire **Pierre Parent**, procureur au parlement ; et ont signé. **English Translation** **Parish of Saint-Eustache.** In the year one thousand seven hundred fourteen, on the eighth of July, was baptized **Jean Baptiste Louis**, born on the sixth of the said month, son of **Jean Baptiste Destrehan**, esquire, treasurer of the wages of the corps and communities of the merchants of the common purses of the city of Paris, and of Dame **Marguerite Du Saussay** his wife, residing on rue des Petits Champs. The godfather **Louis Raphaël Destrehan**, esquire, his son; the godmother Mademoiselle **Catherine Parent**, daughter of the late Messire **Pierre Parent**, attorney in the parlement; and they signed. **Key facts** **Child**: Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan **Born**: 6 July 1714 **Baptized**: 8 July 1714 **Father**: Jean Baptiste Destrehan, écuyer, treasurer of the wages of the merchant communities of Paris **Mother**: Marguerite Du Saussay **Residence**: rue des Petits Champs, Paris (parish of Saint-Eustache) **Godfather**: Louis Raphaël Destrehan (his brother) **Godmother**: Catherine Parent The original extract was issued on **30 September 1750** by the vicar Tourey. This is a reconstructed civil-status record created after the 1871 destruction of the Paris archives. Source: archives.paris.fr

  
  

  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

  Chief Clerk of the Treasury in Louisiana. [2] Never married. [2] Name: Previously noted Destrehan Destours but he was known as Destrehan de Tour. [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S149] Archives de Paris (Reliability: 3). [S1] Legacy of Old Louisiana, Louise Destrehan Rogér D'Oliveira, et. al., (Louise D. R. D'Oliveira), 114. [S155] ANOM, 560. http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/ark:/61561/up424pnojpy [S205] To Reach Afar, Horace H. Harvey, Katherine Harvey Rogér, Louise Destrehan Rogér D'Oliveira, (Hercules Publishing Co., 1974), 23. Six years later his brother, Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan de Tour died in New Orleans on March 9, 1771. [S205] To Reach Afar, Horace H. Harvey, Katherine Harvey Rogér, Louise Destrehan Rogér D'Oliveira, (Hercules Publishing Co., 1974), 13. Jean Baptiste Honore Destrehan de Beaupre was my great, great, grandfather. He was the head of the Destrehan family line in Louisiana. He had a brother, Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan de Tour, but I don't know much about him. I'd say he came over about the time of the founding of the city or soon after and that he came directly from France.