Paul Moleus Landry

Brief Life History of Paul Moleus

When Paul Moleus Landry was born on 10 March 1859, in Youngsville, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, his father, Derbes L. Landry, was 26 and his mother, Melanie Landry, was 19. He married Odile Landry on 2 February 1880, in Abbeville, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States in 1870 and Ward Five, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 30 June 1944, in Kaplan, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Catholic Cemetery, Leroy, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Paul Moleus Landry
1859–1944
Odile Landry
1857–1898
Marriage: 2 February 1880
Alida Landry
1880–
Marie Merida Landry
1881–1960
Dominique Landry
1882–1967
Melanie Landry
1884–1943
Leonard Landry
1887–1949
Edith Landry
1888–1920
Adam Kossuth Landry
1890–
Victorine Landry
1892–1985
Olivier Landry
1894–
Orther Landry
1895–1949
Mames Landry
1897–1956
Inez Landry
1907–

Sources (21)

  • Molieus Landry in household of Zennon Landry, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Paul Molein Landry, "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934"
  • Noleus Landry, "Louisiana Marriages, 1816-1906"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1868 · Louisiana Is Readmitted Into the Union

Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Lucien, Pierre, Emile, Andre, Fernand, Marcel, Antoine, Benoit, Camille, Raoul.

French and English (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Landri, from the ancient Germanic Landric(us), a compound of land ‘land’ + rīk ‘powerful, ruler’.

English: from Middle English lavendrie ‘wash-house’ (Old French lavanderie), either a metonymic occupational name for a worker in a wash-house or a name denoting a dweller at a wash-house.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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