- Pronunciation: KWIH-beh-doh, KIH-beh-doh
Origin: French Canadian
Arrived in Louisiana: from Illinois by 1776
Pioneer Ancestor(s) in Louisiana: Charles QUEBEDEAU
Settled: Pointe-Coupée; Opelousas District, present-day St. Landry and Evangeline parishes; St. Martin Parish
Acadian connection: LANDRY, SAVOIE, TRAHAN
Comments: Charles, son of Joseph QUEBEDEAU and Marie LEST of Illinois, married Marie-Catherine, called Catherine, daughter of Guillaume RECURON of Albin, Diocese of Belley, Dauphiné, France, and Marie-Anne DERUIS, at Pointe-Coupée in October 1776; Marie-Catherine had been born at Pointe-Coupée in January 1762, so she was only 14 years old at the time of her marriage. They settled at Fausse Rivière. Son Toussaint was baptized at Pointe-Coupée, age 4 months, in March 1783, and François was born in September 1784. They also had sons named Nicolas and Zenon. Their daughters married into the ANGELO, ARDOIN, HERNANDEZ, PROVOST, and STELLY families. Charles moved his family to the Opelousas District by the early 1790s and settled on Prairie des Femmes, south of present-day Opelousas. Nicolas married Marguerite, daughter of Acadian Firmin LANDRY of Fausse Pointe in the Atakapas District, and settled at Île-aux-Cannes and on the lower Vermilion River. Their son François le jeune was born in July 1804, Joachim in June 1806, and Denis in October 1808. François l'aîné married Céleste or Célestine, daughter of French Creole Henri LAGRANGE, probably in St. Landry Parish in the early 1810s. Their son Francois, fils was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1818. A daughter married into the SAVOIE family. Toussaint married Marie Barbe, daughter of French Creole Joseph FROZARD, in St. Landry Parish in May 1813. Zenon married Emeranthe, daughter of German Creole André MARKS, in St. Landry Parish in June 1817.
Members of the family were living at Anse QUEBEDEAUX, near Church Point, present-day Acadia Parish, in the 1860s.
Sources: BRDR, 1b:154-55, 2:610-11, 617; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 8.
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