1.	Julien Alexandre LeRay born 1 Feb 1787, La Patorie (La Bernerie), France, (son of Michel LeRay and Jacquette Chesneau) married 12 Jan 1819, in Assumption Church, Plattenville, LA, Marguerite Euphrosine Dugas, born 1783, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France, (daughter of Joseph Dugas and Anastasie Barillot) died 6 May 1847, Thibodaux, Louisiana, buried: 6 May 1847, St. Joseph Cemetery, Thibodaux, LA.  Julien died 1860-70, Thibodaux, Louisiana, buried: 1860-70, Unknown, somewhere in Thibodaux. Marguerite: She departed France on the ship Le Saint Remi on June 27, 1785. There were 325 people on board, along with 16 stowaways. On the voyage there were 15 deaths from scurvy and smallpox. After 75 days at sea, they arrived in New Orleans on September 10, 1785.

	Julien left France during Napoleon's rise to power  (circa 1817) to avoid joining the army. He told his Grandson Julien Augustin that he didn’t want to fight for that crazy man. His older brother Michel volunteered to serve in his place. He also left behind his parents and a  younger brother and sister.

	The following information is ship records found by Marie-Pierre Merlet of France in April of 2002. She did extensive research for Scott Le Ray in Louisiana and found most of the information on the Le Ray Family in France. The following information was taken from ship records in the town of Nantes, France. This is the information she found on Julien Alexandre Le Ray:

	1800 – 			Julien was 13 years old and already a ship’s boy (helper).
	1801 – 			Ship’s boy and sailed to Guadeloupe, which is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, southeast of Puerto Rico.
	1802 – 			Ship’s boy to serve on the ship "LA PENSEE"
        	1808 – 			Sailor in military service on the ship “Le Cassard”
	1809 – 11		Military service on the ship “L’Ocean”
	1812 – 13		Military service on the ship “L’Austerliz”
	1814			End of his military service. Came from Brest on December 2, 1814
	Mar. 11, 1815	Sailor on the ship “L’Attalante” that sailed to Louisiana. This was probably his first trip to Louisiana. This was a new ship built in 1815, which weighed 242 tons and was equipped with 2 cannons. The captain on this ship was Richel Roguet.
	Feb. 28, 1816	He returned to France.	
	April 1, 1816	He was a sailor on the ship “L’ Attalante”. The ship left Nantes, France in April 1816 and stopped first in Port Au Prince, Haiti that is located in the Caribbean Sea, west of the Dominican Republic. It then sailed to New Orleans and arrived there on July 1, 1816.  He was measured at 1 m 67 (tall) with dark hair and was listed as Master Crew. His pay was 50 livres as the surgeon and the cook. The captain’s pay was 200 livres.
	Jan. 2, 1817		The ship returned to Nantes, France after the trip to New Orleans. The captain wrote down information about each sailor on this trip. Many sailors abandoned the ship in Port Au Prince and some in Louisiana. Julien’s name was present, meaning he stayed on the ship and returned to Nantes, France.
	Feb. 27, 1817	He returned to Louisiana on the ship “L’ Attalante”. The ship arrived in New Orleans on June 16, 1817. Julien left the ship and never returned. The “L’ Attalante” returned to France on October 29, 1817 without him. He then made his way to the Plattenville, Louisiana area, which is where he married his wife in 1819.

	These were the records found on Julien’s brother Michel, who volunteered to serve in Julien’s place:

	1808 – 14		Prisoner in England.
	July 6, 1814		Arrived in Dunkerque, France, which is located on the northern coast.
	1815			Sailor on the ship “Le Dugay Trouin” that sailed to Martinique in the Caribbean.
	1816			He returned to France on the ship “Le Vigilant”.
	1824			He was a sailor until this time. In 1824 he decided not to be a sailor anymore.
	1831			He became a sailor again. It is not known if Michel had any children.

	These were records found on Julien’s younger brother Fidele Theozopie Le Ray:
	
1816-1818			He was a sailor on the ship “Le Vigilant” with his older brother Michel. It is not known if Fidele had any children.

	Julien told his Grandson Julien Augustin that he landed somewhere up north first, which was probably Port Au Prince, Haiti and that he didn’t like the location. He then came to Louisiana and settled in the Plattenville area, where he met and married his wife. The couple moved to Brule-Guillot, near Thibodaux (circa 1822) and had a small farm. There is no church record of Julien's death. He is found on the 1860 census living with his son Alexandre, but does not appear on the 1870 census. He may be buried in the St. Joseph Cemetery or in the Brule-Guillot.

				Children:
	  	2.	i	Alexandre Jean Baptiste LeRay born 10 Oct 1819.
	 	  	ii	Louis Theosophie (Civil War POW) LeRay born 25 Aug 1824, Brule-Guillot, Thibodaux, Louisiana, married (1) 11 Nov 1852, Julie Estelle "Celine" Esteve, born 1827, (daughter of Fernando Esteve and Helene (Sivile, Silvie) Civile) died 28 Jun 1879, married (2) 1 Nov 1879, Leonide Ophelia Martin, born 6 Nov 1834.  Louis died 22 Nov 1881, Thibodaux, Louisiana.  Private Louis LeRay was a prisoner of war (Civil War), captured at Labadieville, La., on the 27th of  Oct. 1862 and paroled at Thibodaux, La., on 6 Nov. 1862. He belonged to Pvt. Co. ___, Lafourche Regiment, Louisiana Militia. Since Louis died without heirs and his only brother was Alexandre, it is probable that any other LeRay's in Southern Louisiana are not related. The LeRay's near Port Allen are descendants of Joseph and Charles Leroy, whose name was later changed to LeRay. They first settled in St. James Parish. Julie: She was a sister to Alexandre LeRay's wife, Artemise. Louis and Julie had no children. Leonide: She was a widow of John Malbrough with 7 children.

Second Generation

2.	Alexandre Jean Baptiste LeRay (1.Julien1) born 10 Oct 1819, Plattenville, Louisiana, married (1) 28 Jul 1838, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, Artemise Esteve, born Cir 1816, (daughter of Fernando Esteve and Helene (Sivile, Silvie) Civile) died 24 Dec 1875, married (2) 27 Jun 1878, in Brule-Guillot, Thibodaux, Louisiana, Rose Eulalie "Lalie" Allemand, born 14 May 1856, Charenton, Louisiana, (daughter of Francois Emanuel (Manuel) Allemand and Marie Falcon) died 16 Jan 1918, Thibodaux, Louisiana, buried: Jan 1918, St. Joseph Cemetery, Thibodaux, LA.  Alexandre died 6 May 1895, Thibodaux, Louisiana, buried: 6 May 1895, St. Joseph Cemetery, Thibodaux, LA.  Alexandre was a swamper, wood cutter and barrel-maker. He worked on Colonel James Allen's plantation near Thibodaux. This article is from The Assumption Pioneer newspaper of July 6, 1878 in which they quote the Thibodaux paper, the Sentinel: "The Sentinel announces the marriage in Brule Guillot of a resident "tres a l'aise" (easy going) and well known in Thibodaux, age 59, with a young girl of 22. Musicians serenaded the couple. Alexandre was 74 years old when his last child Henry was born. He died eleven months later. Rose: She was called Eulalie, not Rose. Lillian LeRay said her grandchildren called her Grandma Lalie. She was a beautiful and tiny woman with olive skin, dark hair and blue eyes. Lalie was Alexandre's house keeper when he decided to marry her. She is buried in Section 34 in the cemetery, along with her step-son, Jean Baptiste LeRay, Joyce Yvette and Norman Theresa Barrilleaux. This grave is a large concrete slab with a headstone and three iron crosses.