I have recieved the below information from a visitor to my web site and I am thrilled to be able to pass along some information on the home I had listed as "unknown".  Thank you Joyce for sending me this information!

The house you have pictured as an "unknown" home, was the home of my great grandparents, Augustine and Anais Voisin LeBoeuf.  It was featured in a book Tiltled: Vacherie St. James Parish Louisiana, History and Genealogy by Elton J. Oubre.  I started to do our family genealogy and obtained the book from the library. On page 223 there is a picture of the house and on page 222 a picture of my great aunt Miss Blanch LeBoeuf and a description of the house and grounds and the life of the sisters, Blanch and Mathilde.

The book says that Dr. Philippe de St. Julien Lachausse'e; (ancestor of the Gravois families in Colonial Louisiana) a native of Picardie, France; was the first doctor of the Acadian, prior to 1766, at St. James (Cabahanoce) under the French and then the Spanish rule in Louisiana  resided in that area of St. James then known as Welcome.  His land holding consisted of five arpents front with usual depth.  He died on his estate in 1808.

M y mother always spoke of the house being in Welcome, so I guess the 1766 year might have been when the house was built.  The house belonged to several different families.  One of which was Dr. Justin G. Gautreaux, who in 1855, combined two houses on the property, so that he and his family could occupy one side and his mother and twin sister the other. They could be together but still have privacy. The LeBoeuf's became owners in 1900 and the home was last resided in by Blanche and Mathilde until 1962.

I do have the papers from the sale of the house of which my mother was an heir. I am just sorry I did not go down and see it when I was young because my mother said the antique furniture was brought over from France by my great grandmother.  I was surprised to see and recognize the house in your pictures and thought maybe this might be interesting for you to know who the house belonged to.

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