Landry

MATERNAL LINE
The Landrys
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 J. Landry, and his mother's first name was Edna--Edna Babin(?) Landry. Oscar J. Landry was born about 1881 in Louisiana. He may have been initiated as as a mason in 1912. I believe Jack Landry had a brother named Jim. The family lived at 610 Cleveland St, Lake Charles, LA.

My great-great-grandfather, also named Oscar Landry, was born about 1861 in Louisiana.

My great-great-great-grandfather, also named Oscar Landry, was born about 1833 in Louisiana.

According to one source, the patriarch of the Landrys of Acadia (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.