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BIRTH: 25 OCT 1696 in Notre Dame Parish, Le Harve, France 

DEATH: BEF FEB 1736/37 in Pointe Coupee Post, Louisiana 

Baptised 26 OCT 1696 Notre Dame, Le Harve, France

BIRTH: 1697 Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France

DEATH: 8 Jan 1758 (aged 60–61), Pointe Coupee, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA

BURIAL: Saint Francis of Pointe Coupee Church Cemetery, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA

Married: 20 FEB 1729/30 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 2 3 Note: At this marriage, Anne was the widow of Nicholas Sarazin.

*Read more about Anne Francoise Roland's story and forced immigration to Louisiana HERE!!

NICOLAS BORDELON I b: 1730 in Natchez Post, Adams, Mississippi

ANTOINE BORDELON I b: 1733 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana

The first Bordelon in Louisiana was born in Le Havre, France on 25 October 1696 and baptized the next day at the Church of Notre Dame, Le Havre, France.

As he was called in Louisiana, Laurent was the son of Jean Baptiste Thomas Bordelon and Magdeleine de Brachon. Jean Baptiste was "controlleur de vivres de la marine" at the porte of Le Havre. The term "de vivres" refers to the Navy's supply, subsistence, and commissary functions. By 1711 JEAN BAPTISTE BORDELON was employed at the port of Rochefort, France as "directeur des vivres do la marine" of that port. From letters of the court the 1711 to 1712 in the Archives of the Port of Rochefort, it appears that Bordelon had left his wife at Le Havre.

In 1719 Dame Magdeleine de Richouf, wife of Jean Baptiste Thomas Bordelon, successfully sued her husband for separation of the assets of their community.

LAURENT BORDELON, son of Jean Baptiste Bordelon, was married at Saint Louis Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana on 20 February 1730 to Anne Francoise Roland. In the record of this marriage, Laurent is described as an employee of the company. He names his parents as Jean Baptiste Bordelon and Henriette Rochechouart. It is possible that his father was married for a third time, and Henriette was Laurent's stepmother. Anne Francoise Roland was a native of Saint Germain l'Aurerois Parish, Paris, France. In the marriage record, she names her parents as Jean Baptiste Roland and Jeanne Bonnet. Anne Francoise Roland came to Louisiana in 1719. She is named on the passenger list of the vessel "Mutine".

At the time of her marriage to Laurent Bordelon, Anne was the widow of Nicolas Sarrazin and the mother of three sons: Michel Sarrazin, who died at Pointe Coupee on 20 July 1746 at the age of eighteen; Antoine Sarrazin who later married Marie Colon on 26 June 1747 at Pointe Coupee; and Francoise Sarrazin who was at Arkansas in 1745 and later married there. Apparently, Laurent Bordelon and his wife, Anne, went from New Orleans to Natchez Post shortly after their marriage, and their first son, Nicolas, was born there in late 1730. The second child, Antoine, was born in New Orleans in 1733, indicating a return to New Orleans by the family.

LAURENT BORDELON died prior to February 1737. The records of his burial is not available. However, his widow, Anne Francoise Roland, married (her 3rd) Jean Stephan, called Roquancourt, a native of Basse Bretagne, France, at Pointe Coupee on February 1737. Of this third marriage of Anne were born two daughters, Anne Stephan (born 1 October 1738) and Petronille Stephan (born 9 May 1742), both at Pointe Coupee. The two Bordelon brothers, Nicolas and Antoine, ages 15 and 12, were shown in the household of their step-father and mother in the Pointe Coupee census of 1745. Anne Francoise Roland died at Pointe Coupee on January 8, 1758.