Landry

MATERNAL LINE

The Landrys

My mother, Mara Ann Landry (maiden name) was born November 29, 1936 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She died in 1978.

My maternal grandfather, Edwin John ("Jack") Landry (b. 1909) worked as an engineer in Sulfur, LA. Jack and Mara Stewart married on August 22, 1933. Jack died of pneumonia at age 27 in Lake Charles, Louisiana on December 24, 1936, when my mother was three weeks old. Mara remarried Lawrence Oscar Drachman, who was a good friend of Jack Landry. Their son, my uncle Daniel Ogden Drachman, was born in 1940. I believe my mother went by the name Ann Drachman, although her last name was actually Landry, until her marriage to my father. My grandmother reclaimed the last name Landry after her divorce from Oscar Drachman in the 1960s, and for the rest of her life she went by the name Mrs. E.J. Landry.

John Edwin Landry's father was named Oscar James Landry, and his mother's first name was Edna Baker Landry. Oscar J. Landry was born in 1882 in Louisiana, died 1959. He may have been initiated as as a mason in 1912. Jack Landry had a brother named James Oscar Landry, Jr. (1912-84). The family lived at 610 Cleveland St, Lake Charles, LA.

My great-great-grandfather, Robert B. Landry (1855-83), lived in Lak Charles, Louisiana.

Robert B. Landry's father was named Pierre B. Landry (1824-87).

Pierre B. Landry's father was Narcisse Landry (1796-1876).

Narcisse Landry's father was Joseph Ignatius (or Ignace) Landry (1753-1806). He was born in Pisiguit, Acadia and died in Iberville, Louisiana. 

According to Wikipedia,

Pisiguit is the pre-expulsion-period Acadian region located along the banks of the Avon River (known as the Pisiquit River to the Acadians) from its confluence with the Minas Basin of Acadia, which is now Nova Scotia, including the St. Croix River drainage area. Settlement in the region commenced simultaneous to the establishment of Grand-Pré. Many villages (Rivet, Foret, Babin, Landry, Thibodeau, Vincent, etc.) spread rapidly eastward along the river banks. These settlements became known as Pisiguit or (Pisiquit, Pigiguit, Pisiquid, Pisiguid). The name is from the Mi'kmaq Pesaquid, meaning "Junction of Waters". In 1714, there were 351 people (in 56 families) there.

According to this family tree, Father of  Joseph Ignatius (or Ignace) Landry was Augustin Landry (1719 -1781), Pisiguit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia.

The father of  Augustin Landry was Pierre Landry (1690-1786). 

The father of Pierre Landry was Antoine Landry (1660-1711), born 1660 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France. 

According to this source, the patriarch of the Landrys of Acadia (or Acadie) (modern Nova Scotia) was René Landry (René, l'Aine) (b. 1618) of Port Royal. He was born in France in the the region of Loudon. Through the Acadian diaspora, several branches of the Landry family made their way to Louisiana, my mother's birthplace.