Marquis Joseph de Maison Rouge was the son of Louis Maison Rouge and Catherine de Villeneuve. He was a French knight who was kicked out of France during the French Revolution. He arrived in New Orleans and was given a Spanish Land Grant in Northeast Louisiana with the stipulation to settle and colonize the area. The venture failed. Sick and dying, he returned to New Orleans where he died at the Boluligny family home. He was buried in St. Louis No. 1. Although no children were listed in his will, it was alleged later in lawsuits that he had fathered two sets of twins with his Irish housemaid, Maria Fair. She had been given a little property in his will. His four children by Maria: John and a twin who died in infancy and Marguerite and Thomas. John was raised by the Bouligny family and never had issue, Thomas died young without issue and Marguerite married a Dujay. The Marquis de Maison Rouge's lover Maria married a John Rogers and died around 1841.
Place of birth taken from an abstract of New Orleans Sacramental Records. It also states he was buried the day after his death. It is not known what caused his death, although at this time there was a particularly bad yellow fever epidemic raging in New Orleans.
For further information, please see "The Maison Rouge and Bastrop Spanish Land Grants" in the Louisiana Historical Quarterly, April, 1937, page 289 and "Encyclopedia of Founding Families of the Ouachita Valley of Louisiana, 1785 to 1850, Part 2" by Dr. E. Russ Williams, page 91.
Place of birth taken from an abstract of New Orleans Sacramental Records. It also states he was buried the day after his death. It is not known what caused his death, although at this time there was a particularly bad yellow fever epidemic raging in New Orleans.
For further information, please see "The Maison Rouge and Bastrop Spanish Land Grants" in the Louisiana Historical Quarterly, April, 1937, page 289 and "Encyclopedia of Founding Families of the Ouachita Valley of Louisiana, 1785 to 1850, Part 2" by Dr. E. Russ Williams, page 91.
Marquis Joseph de Maison Rouge was the son of Louis Maison Rouge and Catherine de Villeneuve. He was a French knight who was kicked out of France during the French Revolution. He arrived in New Orleans and was given a Spanish Land Grant in Northeast Louisiana with the stipulation to settle and colonize the area. The venture failed. Sick and dying, he returned to New Orleans where he died at the Boluligny family home. He was buried in St. Louis No. 1. Although no children were listed in his will, it was alleged later in lawsuits that he had fathered two sets of twins with his Irish housemaid, Maria Fair. She had been given a little property in his will. His four children by Maria: John and a twin who died in infancy and Marguerite and Thomas. John was raised by the Bouligny family and never had issue, Thomas died young without issue and Marguerite married a Dujay. The Marquis de Maison Rouge's lover Maria married a John Rogers and died around 1841.
Place of birth taken from an abstract of New Orleans Sacramental Records. It also states he was buried the day after his death. It is not known what caused his death, although at this time there was a particularly bad yellow fever epidemic raging in New Orleans.
For further information, please see "The Maison Rouge and Bastrop Spanish Land Grants" in the Louisiana Historical Quarterly, April, 1937, page 289 and "Encyclopedia of Founding Families of the Ouachita Valley of Louisiana, 1785 to 1850, Part 2" by Dr. E. Russ Williams, page 91.
Place of birth taken from an abstract of New Orleans Sacramental Records. It also states he was buried the day after his death. It is not known what caused his death, although at this time there was a particularly bad yellow fever epidemic raging in New Orleans.
For further information, please see "The Maison Rouge and Bastrop Spanish Land Grants" in the Louisiana Historical Quarterly, April, 1937, page 289 and "Encyclopedia of Founding Families of the Ouachita Valley of Louisiana, 1785 to 1850, Part 2" by Dr. E. Russ Williams, page 91.
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