Charles "Don Carlos" Trudeau dit Laveau

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Charles Laveau Trudeau was the surveyor of the Spanish crown, and was one of the most influential politicians and military officers in Louisiana under Spanish rule. After the Louisiana Purchase, he served as the first president of the New Orleans City Council and for a brief time as the acting mayor during the early American period. Political aspirations and prominent leadership roles ran in this family.

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Charles Laveau Trudeau (correctly written, Charles Trudeau dit Laveau) (1743–1816), also called Don Carlos Trudeau, served as the acting mayor[1] of New Orleans in 1812 (May 23 – Oct. 8).[2] His name includes a French honorific, dit Laveau, a tradition often used to carry forward the name of a revered Woman in the family; in this case Charles' paternal great-great-grandmother, Marie Catherine de Lavaux (1621, Lorraine, France - 1688, Québec, Canada).[3]

Charles Laveau Trudeau was the Surveyor General of Spanish Louisiana from the early 1780s until he resigned in 1805 (in the U.S. Territory of Orleans period), or about twenty years. His name on maps and grants is recorded as Don Carlos Trudeau. A few years later, he served as recorder, and as president, of the city council. It was during his tenure as recorder that James Mather resigned and Charles Trudeau became interim mayor.[6]

Charles Trudeau was born in New Orleans during the French regime to Jean-Baptiste Trudeau and Marianne Carrière. He married Charlotte Perrault (or Peyraud). The couple's children were: Caroline, who married Thomas Urquhart; Celestine, who became the second wife of General James Wilkinson; Josephine, who married Manuel Andry, Jr.; and Manette, who married David C. Kerr.[7] He is also the grandfather of Marie Laveau, whose mother was Marguerite Darcantel, a "free woman of colour"[8].

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Individual Note

-- GEDCOM (INDI) -- 1 PROB 2 DATE 12 AUG 1772 2 PLAC New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana 2 SOUR New Orleans Genesis: Family Group Trudeau # 11-Jean Baptiste Laveau Trudeau Partition of Estate of Jean Trudeau, Volume: XXVI, Pages: 403-5 - Lucille A. Wallis - October 1987 - [Q:3]* Reference: Geneanet Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 18 2018, 22:20:05 UTC

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