Jean-Louis Boulay

Occupation

baker, farmer

Origin

Chateau Renault, France

Sources

Nuremberg #4, cabin, Cordillot

Notes

b. 1806; two years at Dr Mure's Sai phalanstery in Brazil; came with wife and son in the Savardan group; widowed by 1860, d. c. 1869 (Cordillot). A different man from Dominique Boulay

Ship

• Nuremberg, Le Havre → New Orleans, sworn 21 April 1855 — #4, cabin, as Boulay, Jean Louis, 49, fermier (with #5-6)

Land

• 1867 register: lot 5, block 7 — Boulay
• 1867 register: lot 6, block 7 — Boulay

Biography

Jean-Louis Boulay


Name
  Canonical: Jean-Louis Boulay
  Not the registry's Dominique Boulay (carpenter, Chateau-Renault), whom
  Cordillot's appendix lists separately, with a Francois Boulay and
  Mme Isabelle Boulay nee Pimpare.

Birth: 1806, Chateau-Renault (Indre-et-Loire), France
Death: about 1869, Dallas (Cordillot: "shortly after" his son fled)
Burial: unknown

Origin: Chateau-Renault, Touraine; two years in Brazil at Dr Mure's
  phalanstery of Sai

Family
  Wife: died probably in the late 1850s
  Son: aged 14 in the 1860 census, living alone with his father; in 1868
    or 1869 killed his best friend in a quarrel over a young woman and
    fled Dallas, probably for Brazil (Cordillot)

Occupation at colony: baker and farmer
Occupation in Dallas: unknown

Ship / arrival: Cordillot has him arrive June 10, 1855 with Dr Savardan's
  group, "considered a recruit of choice because he was used to life in
  new countries." The Nuremberg manifest (Le Havre to New Orleans, sworn
  April 21, 1855) carries "Jean Louis Boulay, 49, fermier" in cabin #4-6
  with wife and son -- the age fits 1806. The Savardan group reached the
  colony around July 17, 1855, not June (see TIMELINE 1855.07.17).

Colony role: none recorded

Land
  1867 town register: "Boulay," lots 5 and 6, block 7 -- which Boulay is
  not stated.

Sources
  Cordillot, "Boulay Jean-Louis," Au Texas (2003)
  Nuremberg passenger list, cabin #4-6 (doc/colonists/ships/nuremberg/roster.md)
  Sandell, colonist directory ("Boulay, Frances (J.F.), farmer"; "Boulay,
    Dominique -- left Dallas 1866, returned 1882")
  deeds.py: 1867 town register

Notes
  Three Boulays are now in play: Jean-Louis (this notice, on the Nuremberg
  with the Savardan group), Dominique (Santerre's carpenter, who married a
  Pimpare) and Francois (Cordillot's appendix; Sandell's "Frances (J.F.),
  farmer" may be him). The registry holds Dominique and, since Aug 2026,
  Jean-Louis. Whether Jean-Louis
  and Dominique are father and son, brothers, or unrelated is open; the
  Nuremberg cabin party -- a couple and a boy -- is the place to start.

Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County (1892), pp. 392-393
  Dominique Boulay's own sketch settles the two-Boulays question: born
  1826, eldest child of Benjamin and Marianne (Antiebou) Boulay; sailed
  January-May 1856 to New Orleans; reached Dallas May 10, 1856; married
  Isabelle Pimpare that year (her father Rene came with him); Louisiana
  1866-1882; one child, Adolphine. A man twenty years younger than
  Jean-Louis, arriving a year later by another route -- not father and
  son on the Nuremberg, and not the same man.
  doc/text/books/1800/lewis_memorial_dallas_county_1892/excerpts.md

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