Jean Joseph Pene was born 1749 in Toulon, France, and died July 1817 in Maritime Hospital, Toulon, France.
Wife Anne Lucrece Sauvaire was born 21 March 1752 in Toulon, France, and died 3 July 1821 in Toulon, France. They were married 1769 in Toulon, France.
Their children were:
1- Elisa Anne Pene
2- Rosalie Suzanne Pene
3- Suzanne Marie Fortunee Pene b: 26 February 1782 in Toulon, France; d: 27 February 1854
+Charles Dominique Derbes b: 16 November 1768 in Toulon, Var, France; m: 29 October 1801 in Marseille, France]; d: 1834
4- Marie Catherine Victoire Adelaide Pene b: 16 March 1784
+Jean Joseph Mathieu m: 6 July 1807 in Toulon, France [Jean Baptiste/Marthe Trotobas]
5- Joseph Fortune Pene b: 1 October 1788 in Toulon, Var, France; d: 8 June 1833 in New Orleans, LA; burial: St. Louis Cem. #1, NOLA
+Irene Luengo [Francisco Caso y Luengo/Victoire Lemelle]
*1st Wife of Joseph Fortune Pene:
+Anne Josephine Desnouy b: in Mole Saint Nicholas; m: Abt. 13 September 1803 in Port au Prince, Saint Domingue [Miguel/Marie Eugene Duvivier]
Notes for Joseph Fortune Pene:
The New Orleans Genesis, vol. 25, #98, April 1986, pp. 175-7, Vincent J.
Derbes - "Fortune Pene, in spite of his young age, came with his father to join the ranks of the royalists who continued to battle in Provence against the Revolution; he met there the Duc de Montpensier who passed a long spell in prison at Marseille before being able to embark in 1797 for St. Domingue, then for Louisiana where, indeed, he spent little time.
The Duke, relative of the King, named Pene among his companions in combat in a Memoire; he was ennobled by the Duke.
This title had no value but Fortune used it thereafter.
"The Archives have preserved traces of 3 imprisonments of Joseph Fortune
Pene; it is known that he escaped three times. In November 1797 he was in prison in Aix; in December he was at Marseille where he was to be transferred to Toulon in company with 2 other prisoners who were killed by firing squads on their arrival. At the end of January he was a prisoner at Manosque where he escaped to gain St. Domingue on board the Corsair
Zenodore, from which vessel a passenger was debarked without the ship entering the harbor. It was commanded by a
Marsellais, Laffitte. After several years Fortune is found at Port-au-Prince where he married, in September 1803, Josephine
Desnouy, of Mole Saint Nicholas, daughter of Miguel and Marie Eugene Duvivier.
"It is not known when he came to New Orleans, in "territoire d'Orleans" as it was called at that time, in the present state of Louisiana. He created a commercial enterprise with an associate Joseph
Eyssalene and a loan of 60,000 livres from a business man of New Orleans. The business prospered, and he asked his family to send a
Derbes nephew to assist him; he was able to support him completely and to give him a salary of 1200 livres. His letter of 16 February 1817 has been recovered at Toulon, and extracts are given in the appendix.
"Fortune lived in the Attakapas center of the Parish of the same name, which became St. Martinville before the creation of Lafayette. He had with him his daughter Victorine, very beautiful, who became godmother at St. Martinville of her young brother Joseph Jean Baptiste born 8 December 1816, probably in New Orleans, baptised 1 July 1817. These were the only 2 legitimate children. It does not appear that his wife
Desnouy lived in the Attakapas where he housed with Irene Luengo whose father was a Spanish Nobleman of Old Castille, Francisco
Caso y Luengo who was Civil and Military Commandant of the Territory of the
Attakapas in 1788, bachelor, and whose mother was Victoire Lemelle of Indian and Negro blood, classed as a "free woman of color."
"Irene and Fortune baptised at St. Martinville: a boy, Charles in 1811, died in New Orleans 1834, bachelor; 2 boys who died quite young; a daughter Clotilde in 1817, who married Auguste
Bergerot and had numerous descendants; a son Francisco Luengo Pene, who married in 1838, Marie Louise Angeline
Lemelle, daughter of Alexandre and of Modeste Delahoussaye, then in 1842 Alex
Prade, whose line seems to have ended in Los Angeles.
"Fortune Pene participated in the Second War of Independence in 1815, and was Captain in de Penne's Company in the regiment of Colonel de
Clouet. He was very worldly minded and had a large train of servants in New Orleans and in St. Martinville, where in certain acts he is called "le Seigneur de
Penne." But his fortune was wasted and he left very little to his children when he died in New Orleans 8 June 1833; he was buried in St. Louis Cemetery Number One.
"Little more is known of Fortune except that as mentioned he was Captain of Captain Fortune Penne's company of drafted militia, 15th Regiment, Commanded by Colonel Alexander de Clouet. His name appears on the Company Muster Roll in the War of 1812 from September 26, to October 31, 1814. Roll dated at Fort St. Leon, December 31, 1814. Date of appointment or enlistment September 26, 1814 for a period of 6 months. Remarks and alterations since last muster: 115 miles. Pay due from 26th September to 31 December 1811."
Notes for Jean Joseph Pene:
- “In Toulon, the family owned a home #8 de la rue du Murier called fourth street of Bourg St. Michel, a quarter built at the beginning of the 17th century, made of long and narrow streets. These houses generally had 4 stories, above a store at street level facing a terrace, 5 meters facade, with 2 windows and 7 meters in depth. The house was demolished by the bombardments of 1944. It had been purchased for 1600 livres, the 5th of April 1757 by Elizabeth Banon, mother of Joseph Pene. The latter dealt in drugs but was also a seafarer, a general handy man on board ship.” [The N.O. Genesis, vol. 25, #98, April 1986, p. 175, Vincent J. Derbes]
Parents of Anne Lucrece Sauvaire - unknown
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