Showing posts with label Darensbourg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darensbourg. Show all posts

Friday, August 27, 2010

Baptisms of Little Red Church copied by Alice Forsyth & Charles Ramond

Andere, Antoine Joseph, born 20 Dec 1741; baptized 18 Apr 1742
Parents--Antoine Joseph Andere and Madelaine Marie Schmidt
Sponsors--Joseph Fossier and Marie Pere
Signed--Fr. Prosper, Cure; Fossier; Marie Pere


Andre, Guillaume, born 11 Jan1746; baptized 30 Jan 1746
Parents--Antoine Joseph Andre and Marie Magdalaine Schmidt
Sponsors--Guillaume Lange (Officer) and Marguerite Metzes, spouse of de Darensbourg, Commander
Signed--F. Pierre; Andre; M. M. Lange


Andre, Jean, born 14 Oct 1739; baptized 16 Oct 1739
Parents--Antoine Joseph Andre and Madelaine Schmidt
Sponsors--Joseph Blancpain and Jeanne Boucherante
Signed--Blancpain; F. Prosper, Cure

Thursday, March 4, 2010

School News 1877

St. Charles Herald--25 Aug 1877

SCHOOL BOARD PROCEEDINGS
                                 August 18, 1877

    The members of the Board of School Directors in and for the parish of St. Charles, pursuant to previous adjournment, met this day at the courthouse.
    Present---Messrs. Kenner, Darensburg, McCutcheon, Essex and Baudouin. Absent ---Messrs. Rost, Sarpy, Youngs and Bougere.
    On the motion of Mr. McCutcheon, Mr. Kenner was appointed President pro tem, and the minutes of the previous meeting were then read and approved.
    The reports of the committee on school houses were read, and after due deliberation, it was resolved that the public schools of this parish shall be opened on the first Monday of September next at the following places, to-wit:
      First Ward---In the school house located on the property of Peter Campbell and others.
      Second Ward---In the Hahnville School House, Hahnville Concert Hall, and in the Bethlehem Church just below the Courthouse.
      Third Ward---In the school house located on the property of Aubert Zeringue.
      Fourth Ward---In the school house located on the Louis Labranche plantation.
      Fifth Ward---In the school house located on the Red Church property.
      Sixth Ward---In the house formerly rented from Mrs. Mary Duncan on the Hermitage plantation.
      Seventh Ward---In a church and the house known as the Scott's Store at Boutte Station.
      Being ten schools; two of which, viz; in the Hahnville Concert Hall, and the house known as Scott's Store at Boutte Station, shall be for the instruction of white children exclusively; and the others for colored children.
      The committee on teachers was instructed to hold a meeting for the examination of applicants for positions as teachers as soon as circumstances will allow.
      It was resolved that the committee on school houses is hereby authorized to make all repairs and purchases recommended in their above mentioned reports, and execute all leases for school houses on the terms agreed upon between the said committee and the lessors.
      On motion, duly seconded, it was resolved that the Rev. Robert Butler be allowed the use of the school house on the property of Peter Campbell and others as a church for his congregation, on the condition that he will make all necessary repairs thereto and take good care of the same; provided his meetings for religious worship shall not at any time interrupt with the exercises of the school.
       The meeting was then adjourned to the 1st of September next.
                    T.T. Baudouin, Secretery.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Schools in 1877

St. Charles Herald, 11 Aug 1877

School Board Proceedings
The members of the Board of School Directors assembled at the Courthouse this 4th day of August, 1877.  Present---Messrs. Sarpy, Kenner, Essex, Darensbourg, and Baudouin.
Absent---Messrs. Rost, Bougere, and McCutcheon
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
The president then presented the following circular:
Department of Public Education, State of Louisiana, New Orleans, July 17, 1877
To Emile Rost, president of the Parish Board of School Directors in and for the parish of St. Charles:
Dear Sir--Be pleased to inform this office of the amount of outstanding claims of past years against the school fund in your parish, and of the measures which your Board have adopted for ascertaining and settling  the same. A separate statement of the amount due for schools open in 1877 is also requested, with a memorandum of the months during which the schools have been in operation. Information of this character is needed before apportionment for 1877 can properately be paid to your parish. Be pleased to mention also what books, forms, papers and balances of funds have been recovered from your predecessors, and what other forms, etc., are needed by or for the officers of your Board and teachers of your schools. Very respectfully yours, etc., R.M. Lusher, State Superintendant.
In answer to the above circular, the Board stated that the only outstanding claim of past years against school funds of this parish, so far as has been ascertained, is a bill bearing date of April 3, 1876, for the sum of two dollars ($2) due the St. Charles Herald for publishing a notice that the public schools would open on the 3rd April, 1876. The amount due for schools open in 1877 is $337, and this is for the month of June only. There were seven schools open in March and two more in April, 1877. These continued in operation until the 30th June. The amount turned over by the former to the present Treasurer, as per his own statement dated August 2, 1877, is $48.86. The former Secretary has turned over to us all the books, forms and papers in his possession, consisting of record, minute and account books, and all the forms necessary to carry on and transact the business of the schools.
On motion of Mr. Youngs, a committee on school houses, purchases, and supplies was appointed with instructions to examine the school houses belong(sic) to the parish, determine upon and change the location of the schools, lease suitable buildings for the same, and report their action in the premises to the Board at its next meeting.
Messrs. Youngs, Kenner, Essex and McCutcheon were appointed on said committee.
A petition from the citizens of the second ward, residing between Labranche and Davis plantations, praying that a school be established near St. Dennis station on the O. & T. R.R., and recommending the Bell Baptist Church be used for same, was presented by the Rev. Wiley Jones to the Board for consideration.
A note from Mrs. Caulfield, tending an invitation to the Board to attend a distribution of prizes to the pupils of her school, to take place on the 13th inst., was then read, after which the Board adjourned to meet again on the 18th inst.
T.T. Baudouin, Secretary